Left-wing libertarian is synonymous with anarchist and it has been for
more than a century. That is why I so dislike right-wingers adopting the
label libertarian. Libertarians have been left-wingers a lot longer than
right-wingers have, but nowadays you hear the word libertarian and you
automatically think right-winger. There are similarities though.
Anarchists hold the position - mistakenly in my opinion - that class
society is the result of the state. My position is that the state is the
result of class society. But they hold that to end class society - and
specifically capitalism - the state must be abolished first. Right-wing
libertarians take pretty much the same position except that they are not
concerned with the abolition of class society and see capitalism as a
positive good. That is completely counter to traditional libertarianism.
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David Hume
??? In our reasonings concerning matter of fact, there are all imaginable
degrees of assurance, from the highest certainty to the lowest species of moral
evidence. A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence. ???
??? David Hume,
On 11/2/2019 4:16 PM, Miriam Vieni wrote:
This is what Chomsky said in the interview and it's how I would identify my
own position. Yesterday, I think it was John Keriakou who I heard on the
Useful Idiots podcast, identified himself as a left wing libertarian. He
probably meant the same thing. He'd been a Democrat for his whole life until
2012 when he was shafted by an interviewer on MSNBC.
Chomsky's quote below
Well, what does anarchism mean? And it's the whole long tradition actually
going back to classical liberalism. It fundamentally means opposition to
structures of authority and domination unless they can justify themselves.
Illegitimate structures of domination and hierarchy ranging from
paternalistic family to business which is a tyranny in which people rent
themselves as slaves, to international affairs. Anywhere across this domain
if you find illegitimate authority, it should be eliminated. rule by
unaccountable private tyrannies. I don't see anything libertarian about
that.
Miriam