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Re: Religious right’s new rivals
Posted by Marcello (Guest) - Thursday, July 5 2012, 20:43:39 (UTC)
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My former professor used to say that Libertarians are just Republicans who want to smoke dope and watch porn, or that they are right wingers who don't want to pay taxes but will drive on a public road. Hypocrites!

The Libertarian party was led by Lyndon Larouche, who at one time was a member of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP). The signs that the Tea Party carried in DC which had Obama with Hitler's mustache were all made by followers of Larouche. Larouche, Webster Tarpley and Ron Paul all far right, white, christian Republicans who want to have a hip, youth appeal so they go by the name Libertarian.

Kafka was a Libertarian, but he, like Chomsky, was a Libertarian socialist, or anarcho-syndicalist, or anarchist-communist, or simply an anarchist who believed in a highly organized society of a federation of small councils based on free association, mutual aid and cooperation where everything proceeds by consensus and power is decentralized.

Anarchism challenges all authority: god, family, government. The only two historical examples of anarchism are found in some of the American Indian tribes, and the most recent was in Spain in the '30s where it was crushed by Stalinists, Fascists and Western democracies. The other short life that anarchism had was embedded in the history of labor and anti-war struggels in the last part of the 19th century (with the Spanish-American War) and the first part of the 20th (with the First World War): Sacco and Vanzetti, "Big" Bill Haywood, Eugene V. Debbs, Emma Goldman, Alexander Berkman were all anarchists.


The American tradition of anarchism or Libertariansm that some of Ron Paul's supporters espouse is a bit of Henry David Thoreau's philosophy of Classical Liberalism mixed with Christianity and Laissez Faire economics, or what they've recently termed, anarcho-capitalism. (I forgot to add Ayn Rand to the list.)

I personally find them quite frightening. As anarchisits (or far right Libertarians), they believe in god (authority), and they use the bible as the ultimate set of laws to justify their racism and homophobia.

Perhaps my assessment is wrong since I'm not an expert on anarchism, but the little that I think I know about the modern American Libertarians and what I've read from real anarchist writers, makes these "former" Republicans seem utterly hypocritical!



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