If so, can you explain how libertarianism is

A) a real, distinct and coherent ideology

B) doesn’t degrade into extreme reaction if not outright fascism eventually

It is a plebeian movement of the petty bourgeoisie and lumpenproletariat, with some support among the proletariat and largely sponsored by a minority section of the bourgeoisie. It aims to do away with decadent liberal institutions and the democratic structures of the state to replace them with a more perfect dictatorship of the bourgeois class, creating some kind of national rebirth in modern times reflecting some highly romanticized and mythologized vision of the past, the American Old West being the Libertarianism's Paradise Lost in this instance.

The libertarians even like to style themselves as a sort of "Third Way" that is not actually right or left, though anyone paying attention would notice that the libertarian movement aligns themselves strictly with the right. The idea that businesses should be allowed to discriminate and oppress to their hearts' content is a cornerstone of libertarian thought. That unions, cooperatives, minorities and socialist groups should be allowed to freely organize? Not so much. A corporation bans unions, socialists, gays or minorities? Your house, your rules! A corporation bans right-wingers and hate speech? Vilest communism.

Rant thread

Socialist Libertarian, yea

I banged a librarian.

Seems like you answered your simpering vile Communist question yourself so we can lock this thread

Was she a red head?

I be forgetting to return the books all the time

This dude is/was a CIA collaborator

a read head? good one

In The Art of Not Being Governed, Scott addresses the question of how certain groups in the mountainous jungles of Southeast Asia managed to avoid a package of exploitation centered around the state, taxation, and grain cultivation. Certain aspects of their society seen by outsiders as backward (e.g., limited literacy and use of written language) were in fact part of the "Arts" referenced in the title: limiting literacy meant lower visibility to the state. Scott's main argument is that these people are "barbaric by design": their social organization, geographical location, subsistence practices and culture have been carved to discourage states to annex them to their territories

Those indonesian student leaders got #girlbossed

Check the G&G threads for girls who just turned 18

I aint wiping with no leaf again broseph I can tell you that much

Naw

Disagree but you're allowed to have that opinion

Don't make me tap the sign again

this argument kinda backfires on you because most people would look at it and be like ‘i wanna be just slightly to the right of the dividing line’

does it need to be a tribal band or does it need to be a small community of their family, people they know, and the benefits of industrial civilisation on top of that

let’s not throw the baby out with the bath water

I'm saying "libertarianism" isn't real one way or the other lol

It's an idea it doesn't actually exist

Foley called America a Marxist-Polpotist Republic a few days ago. They don't know what they're talking about I'm afraid

I don’t believe in transhistoricizing anarchism but while we can learn from past ways of life, we must not try to return to it in a pure form

James C. Scott does some great anthropological work on the State in these books but it should be taken as simply things to learn from rather than as a point of return

Read a book and not this polcomp garbage

As for OP’s question, most of the site’s political composition (for those who engage in political discourse) seems to be vaguely socially liberal progressives and eclectic Marxist-Leninists who don’t have a party line

There are some right-wing libertarians scattered around though, mostly engaging with surface-level stuff like Thomas Sowell, I don’t think I’ve ever seen Mises or Hayek invoked in an argument.

Spot on

I assume you read Zerzan already

I don’t agree with the primitivist outlook

i just took this test for the first time in years and i got the same results as then. damn