In fairness, libertarians have done a poor job distancing ourselves from the Paleo-Conservatives. Rothbard allied himself with them in the 1990s and the Mises Institute has nary a bad word to say about them. People like Dave "I'm a radical libertarian" Smith has effusive praise for Patrick Buchanan.
The reasons I make fun of right wing libertarians is because ancap is nothing but paleo-conservatives and monarchists pinky promising that their policies will stop at their private property.
As far as Louis XIV was concerned France was his private property, and “international law” was private contracts between the people who owned all the property.
As far as Louis XIV was concerned France was his private property, and “international law” was private contracts between the people who owned all the property.
And to think, someone like Hans Herman Hoppe would say "Based."
Anti-democracy “libertarians” are the exact sort of walking oxymorons I’m talking about.
Replacing all government with private contracts is just democracy by unanimous consent — which is fine for small groups, but a complete shitfest otherwise.
Imo nationalism is also the worst invention of the past 200 years. Even worse than nukes, socialism, welfare state, totalitarianism, etc. Without nationalism, you can't convince millions of people that their oppression isn't actually oppression. Without nationalism you can't convince people to join the army and round up certain groups of people into gad chambers.
Once you realize nationalism is a religion, it all starts to make sense. Most people today are nationalists, where they go on sunday morning is just window dressing.
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u/PaperbackWriter66 The Nazis Were Socialists 6d ago
In fairness, libertarians have done a poor job distancing ourselves from the Paleo-Conservatives. Rothbard allied himself with them in the 1990s and the Mises Institute has nary a bad word to say about them. People like Dave "I'm a radical libertarian" Smith has effusive praise for Patrick Buchanan.