[lbo-talk] How to explain things to (right-wing) libertarians

andie nachgeborenen andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com
Fri Mar 30 16:02:08 PDT 2007


No compromise with anyone! No coalitions with anyone who disagrees with me! That includes you too, Carl.

--- Carl Remick <carlremick at hotmail.com> wrote:


> >From: "Wojtek Sokolowski" <sokol at jhu.edu>
> >
> >... I suspect that in a parliamentary
> >PR system, the libertarian party would behave more
> or less as Andie says -
> >siding with the left on civil liberties,
> anti-militarism, and even some
> >social policies.
>
> I think libertarians' fetishism of the individual
> brings a solipsistic toxin
> to social policy that would be fatal to genuinely
> leftist politics in the
> long run. I oppose supposedly pragmatic coalitions
> between leftists and
> retrograde thinkers like libertarians and religious
> believers. If humanity
> is to have a future, societies must be governed by
> secular collectivism of
> some sort. With free enterprise systematically
> destroying the global
> environment and world religiosity breeding insane
> tribal wars, this is no
> time for leftists to compromise on the principles of
> socialism and
> secularism.
>
> Carl
>
>
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