[lbo-talk] Corey Robin's Reactionary Mind argument in miniature

c b cb31450 at gmail.com
Fri Mar 9 09:29:59 PST 2012


Corey Robins: Ordinarily, most libertarians dismiss such talk as blurring the lines between negative liberty (the absence of coercion) and positive liberty (the capacity to act). The latter, they often add, is not a species of liberty at all, but something more akin to power or ability.

^^^^^^^ CB: This seems pretty much of the crux of the overall logic. "Libertarians" are flat out wrong on this point. Inability to exercise freedom in fact is lack of freedom. This demonstrates the core philosophical idealism of libertarianism and bourgeois philosophy through left materialist critique of it.

The Koch's actions with respect to Cato create a paradoxical loop for Sanchez which exposes the above flaw in his ideology ( and he has an ideology even as posturing that he has some apolitical reasoning and analysis). He is a petit bourgeois mouthpiece for bourgeois theory ( libertarianism). The contradictions in that theory are exposed, appropriately enough , when some big bourgeoisie drag him into the real world.



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