orderfromchaos asked: Comrade, do you agree that one of the more ironic things about the more fringe American Libertarians is that they are preaching the very class struggle they supposedly hate commies for, only instead of trying to support the downtrodden proletariat, they're trying to support the downtrodden...banking class?
I think the greatest irony is the gulf between who they are and how they see themselves. I’d compare this gulf to that of certain genres of heavy metal that create a fantasy world of guitar-wielding warriors; the men look like Conan The Barbarian and the women are busty amazons eager to please… yet the fans are generally spotty nerds who can’t get a girlfriend for love nor money. In the world they envisage as paradise, Libertarians would be crushed like bugs. Egoism prevents them from having that epiphany.
Laissez-faire capitalism produces atomized individuals, so it should come as no surprise that its most extreme champions are extremely atomized people. I think this means that inevitably, lonely nutcases will latch on to it and will attack IRS buildings in its name. However, like Satanism, it is both elitist and ludicrous, and so will never become a mass movement.
If Libertarianism ever takes over the world, it cannot hope to last. People may be willing to kill for deregulation, but precious few people are willing to die for it.
