I feel the same way regarding Hit & Run comments. What I wasn’t exactly expecting, however, were all the asinine comments at The American Conservative.
Someone (hint, hint) needs to create a ‘If you _____…you might be a left-libertarian.” running shtick. Maybe have one geared towards libertarians and have one geared towards liberals.
Examples;
If you free-market, but anti-capitalist, you might be a left-libertarian.
If you don’t think early America was a golden era of lassez faire, you might be a left-libertarian.
Or maybe that Jeff Foxworthy bit is too out of date…Oh well.
If you think that Ayn Rand pretty much covered it,
… you might be a right-libertarian.
If you think Glenn Beck is on the right track,
… you might be a right-libertarian.
If you think Stephan Kinsella means well,
… you might be a right-libertarian.
If you aren’t nervous when a LvMI guest speaker — “Judge” Napolitano — keeps pointing toward Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas as good supreme court justices,
MBH, there is no such thing as ‘right’ or ‘left’ libertarianism; both are incompatible with libertarianism – and I don’t mean just the statist parts, I mean your ‘thickism’; both the lefties and the rightos are cultural fetishists. The ‘natural order’ of a free society is not some ‘flattened egalitarianism’ or a ‘patriarchal restrictive covenant’ but cosmopolitan capitalism; big cities and big big business, where people hardly know each other because friends are deliberately chosen, not imposed by geography – much to the annoyance of all you localists and communitarians of the left and right.
Two seconds into reading your first link, I can go ahead and point out a problem you’re going to have with this idea. You say that the left is bureaucratic and managerial. Um. Not the libertarian-left. And that is who we’re talking about, correct? I mean, the libertarian left is set on Lockeanism which all but excludes bureaucratic and managerial schemes. So, you’re kinda’ in trouble right off the bat dude.
Jesse Walker comments thereon. The comments section below his post is … as usual.
I can almost never stomach the Reason blog comments for more than a dozen or so posts. This one is no exception.
I feel the same way regarding Hit & Run comments. What I wasn’t exactly expecting, however, were all the asinine comments at The American Conservative.
Just awesome.
Someone (hint, hint) needs to create a ‘If you _____…you might be a left-libertarian.” running shtick. Maybe have one geared towards libertarians and have one geared towards liberals.
Examples;
If you free-market, but anti-capitalist, you might be a left-libertarian.
If you don’t think early America was a golden era of lassez faire, you might be a left-libertarian.
Or maybe that Jeff Foxworthy bit is too out of date…Oh well.
I would think a right-libertarian schtick would be better. For instance, if say the following on Jesse Walker’s blog,
… you might be a right-libertarian.
If you think,
… you might be a right-libertarian.
(I’m not making up these quotes BTW. I wish I were that creative.)
If you post Lew Rockwell to your facebook page to show that you understand economics,
…you might be a right-libertarian.
If you give someone the finger when they mention “Locke’s labor theory of property,”
… you might be a right-libertarian.
If you think that Ayn Rand pretty much covered it,
… you might be a right-libertarian.
If you think Glenn Beck is on the right track,
… you might be a right-libertarian.
If you think Stephan Kinsella means well,
… you might be a right-libertarian.
If you aren’t nervous when a LvMI guest speaker — “Judge” Napolitano — keeps pointing toward Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas as good supreme court justices,
… you might be a right-libertarian.
If you aren’t nervous at the Mises Institute,
… you might be a right-libertarian.
I approve…
MBH, there is no such thing as ‘right’ or ‘left’ libertarianism; both are incompatible with libertarianism – and I don’t mean just the statist parts, I mean your ‘thickism’; both the lefties and the rightos are cultural fetishists. The ‘natural order’ of a free society is not some ‘flattened egalitarianism’ or a ‘patriarchal restrictive covenant’ but cosmopolitan capitalism; big cities and big big business, where people hardly know each other because friends are deliberately chosen, not imposed by geography – much to the annoyance of all you localists and communitarians of the left and right.
http://objectivelycorrect.blogspot.com/2011/02/libertarianism-is-pretty-much.html
http://objectivelycorrect.blogspot.com/2010/12/community-may-be-thing-of-past.html
Two seconds into reading your first link, I can go ahead and point out a problem you’re going to have with this idea. You say that the left is bureaucratic and managerial. Um. Not the libertarian-left. And that is who we’re talking about, correct? I mean, the libertarian left is set on Lockeanism which all but excludes bureaucratic and managerial schemes. So, you’re kinda’ in trouble right off the bat dude.