![]() ![]() ![]() The only reason people pretend to take it seriously is because you can use it as a weapon. ![]() I mean, everybody knows that a society that worked by American libertarian principles would self-destruct in three seconds. The American version of "libertarianism" is an aberration, though-nobody really takes it seriously. If your choice is, "do what I tell you or starve," that's not a choice-it's in fact what was commonly referred to as wage slavery in more civilized times, like the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, for example. Now, you can say, "they rent themselves freely, it's a free contract"-but that's a joke. If capital is privately controlled, then people are going to have to rent themselves in order to survive. Now, that's always been opposed in the European libertarian tradition, where every anarchist has been a socialist-because the point is, if you have unbridled capitalism, you have all kinds of authority: you have extreme authority. The United Statesis off the spectrum of the main tradition in this respect: what's called "libertarianism" here is unbridled capitalism. “But you see, "libertarian" has a special meaning in the United States. ![]()
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