abandonconflict
Well-Known Member
When you get to clicking on your browser, and you surf your way over to RIU, drawn by the sweet smell of the ganj burning, you will quickly find that there are a ton of tea baggers around this site. At least one of them is a LEO and about half of them are in denial about their love for feudalism. They range from neoliberal to voluntaryist and from misguided to openly racist. They fit right into the right wing even if they say they oppose war. They'll comment on this and call me a Marxist or a Commie. At least one of them will say I owe him an explanation of something he could find through his own research if he cared to learn about it. Oh he'll insist that he's got it all figured out, then ask a basic question revealing a complete lack of grasp of the subject.
The Tea Baggers call themselves libertarians but completely disregard that aside from the US and throughout the history of the usage of the word it libertarian has been to describe anarchists. Even Murray Rothbard, the founder of American "libertarianism" and coiner of the term anarchocapitalism admitted as much. He concluded that his movement (which included the likes of Ron Paul) was not an anarchist movement. "Therefore we must conclude we are not anarchists." said he. The Koch Brothers donate heavily toward the Tea Party, the GOP and "The Libertarian Party".
When private property becomes so enshrined into the world view of many, the word property becomes synonymous with liberty. This is because the stratification of socioeconomic classes becomes so distinct and defined and polarized that there is only one (ever shrinking in size) class in which people can truly have liberty. The ones with property. The rest will have nothing but their labor and their children. There will be a hereditary elite and a dearth of socioeconomic upward mobility.
That is feudalism. The purest of these people are ultra right wing nuts who call themselves Voluntaryist, because they know anarchocapitalism is an oxymoron. They have a pretty fantasy they use to sell their views to well meaning people. Some of them are quite aware how dystopian their vile and disgusting views are. They cling to philosophers like Ayn Rand, who sought to redefine altruism as evil and Murray Rothbard who sought to redefine egalitarianism as a revolt against nature. At the very heart of thier beliefs is a doctrine known as Social Darwinism.
They will try to tell us that the hereditary powerful billionaires of the earth should have every right to employ private armies, alleviating the need for a state. The rhetoric is anti-statist and therefore appeals to anarchists. They require the removal of the state in order to enforce a new, completely tyrannical kind of hierarchy.
Such hereditary hierarchy is as absurd (paraphrasing Thomas Paine) as hereditary mathematicians.
Flame away ancaps.
The Tea Baggers call themselves libertarians but completely disregard that aside from the US and throughout the history of the usage of the word it libertarian has been to describe anarchists. Even Murray Rothbard, the founder of American "libertarianism" and coiner of the term anarchocapitalism admitted as much. He concluded that his movement (which included the likes of Ron Paul) was not an anarchist movement. "Therefore we must conclude we are not anarchists." said he. The Koch Brothers donate heavily toward the Tea Party, the GOP and "The Libertarian Party".
When private property becomes so enshrined into the world view of many, the word property becomes synonymous with liberty. This is because the stratification of socioeconomic classes becomes so distinct and defined and polarized that there is only one (ever shrinking in size) class in which people can truly have liberty. The ones with property. The rest will have nothing but their labor and their children. There will be a hereditary elite and a dearth of socioeconomic upward mobility.
That is feudalism. The purest of these people are ultra right wing nuts who call themselves Voluntaryist, because they know anarchocapitalism is an oxymoron. They have a pretty fantasy they use to sell their views to well meaning people. Some of them are quite aware how dystopian their vile and disgusting views are. They cling to philosophers like Ayn Rand, who sought to redefine altruism as evil and Murray Rothbard who sought to redefine egalitarianism as a revolt against nature. At the very heart of thier beliefs is a doctrine known as Social Darwinism.
They will try to tell us that the hereditary powerful billionaires of the earth should have every right to employ private armies, alleviating the need for a state. The rhetoric is anti-statist and therefore appeals to anarchists. They require the removal of the state in order to enforce a new, completely tyrannical kind of hierarchy.
Such hereditary hierarchy is as absurd (paraphrasing Thomas Paine) as hereditary mathematicians.
Flame away ancaps.
