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The left fascination with a libertarian fundamentalist is really curious, and I don't mean that in a good way.
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It's just an American thing though, right? Or is it a settler state thing?
^^^^^ CB: Petit bourgeois Robinsonade, ideology generated continously in capitalism...rugged individualism, _self_-reliance, alienation... America has an especially virulent case of it perhaps related to its historical settler state thingy as you suggest.
We have seen that the expropriation of the mass of the people from the soil forms the basis of the capitalist mode of production. The essence of a free colony, on the contrary, consists in this — that the bulk of the soil is still public property, and every settler on it therefore can turn part of it into his private property and individual means of production, without hindering the later settlers in the same operation.[10] This is the secret both of the prosperity of the colonies and of their inveterate vice — opposition to the establishment of capital. “Where land is very cheap and all men are free, where every one who so pleases can easily obtain a piece of land for himself, not only is labour very dear, as respects the labourer’s share of the produce, but the difficulty is to obtain combined labour at any price.” [11]
Karl Marx. Capital Volume One Chapter Thirty-Three: The Modern Theory of Colonisation [1]
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch33.htm