06-30-2011 • lewrockwell.com
Leftist
criticisms
of libertarianism have surged lately, a phenomenon
warranting explanation.
We libertarians could justifiably find it all quite
confusing. For
decades we have thought our battle a largely losing one,
at least
in the short term. We are a tiny, relatively powerless
minority.
The state has raged on, expanding in virtually every
direction,
for my entire lifetime and that of my parents’. Yet nearly
every
week our beloved philosophy of non-aggression is subject
to some
progressive’s relatively widely read hatchet job. On the
surface,
it appears at least as misdirected as the rightwing
hysteria about
Marxists during the Cold War. But at least Marxism was the
supposed
tenet of the Soviet Union, a regime with thousands of
nukes ready
to launch. Why all this concern about little ol’ us?
We could go through all these critiques line by line and expose the many factual errors and gross misinterpretations, whether disingenuous or unintentional. But it might be more worthwhile to ask, Why all this focus on the supposed demonic threat of libertarianism in the first place?
It was not too long ago that the Slate’s Jacob Weisberg declared the end of libertarianism. Time of death? The financial collapse, which proved our "ideology makes no sense." Not three years later, the same web publication is exposing "the liberty scam": "With libertarianism everywhere, it's hard to remember that as recently as the 1970s, it was nowhere to be found."
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We could go through all these critiques line by line and expose the many factual errors and gross misinterpretations, whether disingenuous or unintentional. But it might be more worthwhile to ask, Why all this focus on the supposed demonic threat of libertarianism in the first place?
It was not too long ago that the Slate’s Jacob Weisberg declared the end of libertarianism. Time of death? The financial collapse, which proved our "ideology makes no sense." Not three years later, the same web publication is exposing "the liberty scam": "With libertarianism everywhere, it's hard to remember that as recently as the 1970s, it was nowhere to be found."
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