Website review: Whats wrong with libertarianism
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•13 reviews since Apr 21, 2004
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Tektrix discovered 52 months ago- Libertarian Critique
- nfactor13 rated 4 months ago
- Very much a mish-mash of arguments and history, but only dealing with straw-man versions of libertarianism isn't going to convince current libertarians to change their mind. The author needs to address the moral arguments as well, specifically, how do non-libertarians condone violence against persons and their property outside of self-defense situations.
- matthewbhere rated 6 months ago
- A good critique of Libertarianism.
found via Henridellik - A good critique of Libertarianism.
- Henridellik rated 6 months ago
- Libertarianism uses the individual's personal interests to fuel the corporations' economic interests. Since corporations were declared to be legally considered as individuals, it is astonishingly easy to convince one man that his interests are what matter when the lobbyist-organizations pander for more freedom.
- commerican rated 6 months ago
- Libertarians are some of the nastiest people I have ever met.
- velation rated 6 months ago
- The free market is the most successful mechanism for liberation and prosperity in the history of humankind, and it is founded on libertarian principles. The success of libertarianism is readily apparent in the success of the free market; for as liberty decreases, so too does economic success. I have no desire to "get along" with the author of this poorly researched, straw man caricature of libertarianism, and I find his attempt to paint me and fellow libertarians as ruthless and immoral money grabbers disdainful of the poor and needy to be offensive. I wouldn't do him that disservice; the only thing I see fit to accuse him of is chronic ignorance of economics, history and morality.
- dumllama1 rated 7 months ago
- Just a caricature of libertarianism. He should do a web search for "left-libertarian" or "libertarian mutualism"
- M-Nome rated 7 months ago
- From the page: "The bottom line "The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." --Franklin D. Roosevelt I have my own articles of faith. I think a political philosophy should * benefit the entire population, not an elite of whatever flavor * offer a positive vision, not just hatred for another philosophy * rest on the best science and history can teach us, rather than science fiction * be modified in the light of what works and what doesn't * produce greater freedom and prosperity the closer a nation comes to it. On all these counts, libertarianism simply doesn't stack up. Once people are able to be rational about politics, I expect them to toss it out as a practical failure and a moral mess." This has to be the most comprehensive explanation of exactly why libertarianism is a complete and utter failure. Definitely worth the read.
- Stumbleine33 rated 7 months ago
- From the page: "At the turn of the 20th century, business could do what it wanted-- and it did. The result was robber barons, monopolistic gouging, management thugs attacking union organizers, filth in our food, a punishing business cycle, slavery and racial oppression, starvation among the elderly, gunboat diplomacy in support of business interests. The New Deal itself was a response to crisis (though by no means an unprecedented one; it wasn't much worse than the Gilded Age depressions). A quarter of the population was out of work. Five thousand banks failed, destroying the savings of 9 million families. Steel plants were operating at 12% capacity. Banks foreclosed on a quarter of Mississippi's land. Wall Street was discredited by insider trading and collusion with banks at the expense of investors. Farmers were breaking out into open revolt; miners and jobless city workers were rioting. Don't think, by the way, that if governments don't provide gunboats, no one else will. Corporations will build their own military if necessary: the East Indies Company did; Leopold did in the Congo; management did when fighting with labor. "
- Scrapnonz rated 8 months ago
- Read about Libertarian Socialism.
