Quote:
Originally Posted by British-Conservatism
Very good points.
Libertarians seem to see things in very dogmatic and unrealistic terms.
Their ideology is much like communism.
|
Well I'll correct you by saying the American style of libertarianism. Anarcho-syndicalism for example does not suffer this dogmaticism.
The problem with American style libertarianism is it tries to great a doctrine that solves all human political and social problems by adherence to a few prinicples particularly their idea of property rights. It can only do this by being very simplistic and pretending their is something natural about it.
For instance they start with the idea of self-ownership and somehow end up with the idea that a sticky, rightwing version of lockean property rights are natural for all contexts and that adherence to these rules solves all human political issues. Although they tend to conveniently forget that corporate personhood and ownership and such are at odds with lockean property rights.
So you end up with the simplitistic and unrealistic dogma of always advising strict adherence to these dubious axioms.
Not that I don't like American style libertarians, I'm influenced, admire and read them as I do all libertarians, they are just some of the theoretically weakest libertarians and decentralists in my opinion. And they are because they aim for a few rules which can easily and coherently be used to solve all humans political, economic and social affairs and these simply don't exist.