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Re: the conspiracy to hate government....
Posted by Marcello (Guest) - Saturday, April 16 2016, 17:50:12 (UTC)
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"...getting people to distrust and hate their government is a great way for the wealthy few to gain even more control...."


This is my main problem with Libertarians. First off "libertarian" is synonymous with anarchism everywhere else in the world (especially Europe) except for the U.S. It's like football. The entire world calls the sport Americans refer to as "soccer", FOOTBALL. Nineteenth century anarchists in Russia and Europe believed that if you cut off the head, the entire body will fall. So they attempted and succeeded in several countriesin assassinating heads of state. These violent acts gained them the infamous name "bomb-throwing anarchists". So in France in the 1880s or '90s, some anarchists began to use "libertarian" as a means to soften their image, or like Noam Chomsky, they referred to themselves as Libertarian Socialists. Anarchism is a bottom up, anti state structure. Unlike Communism, where emphasis is focused on the class struggle, anarchists go beyond the mere class struggle and challenge all forms of authority, hierarchy, domination, and exploitation. It's an anti-statist, bottom up, de-centralized structure, unlike statist structures of Communism, where authority is practiced from top down. Interestingly, the imprisoned leader of the Qurdish PKK, Abdullah "Apo" (Khalu) Ocalan (Ochalan) went through a political and philosophical transformation when he discovered the works of the Jewish-American anarchist, Murray Bookchin, whose writings deal with the importance of feminism and ecology. These ideas from Bookchin are now being promoted and practiced in the Rojava Revolution, led by the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD), who were forced to sit out of the Geneva talks due to pressure from Erdogan. Instead, PYD rivals, the Turkish-friendly Kurdish National Council (KNC), is representing the Kurds (what bullshit!) Here in the U.S. we've yet to have (as Susan Sarandon correctly points out) fifty female senators --equal to the number of male senators. But in Rojava, Ocalan has demanded that in total representation, there MUST be a 40/60 split in representation of women to men... and later it WILL be 50/50. So going back to why I don't like American Libertarians (aside from the fact that they co-opted a name for far-Left anarcho-Socialist and twisted it into a Free Market joke: anarcho-Capitalist). In a sense, the same way in which nineteenth century French anarchists substituted "anarchist" with the less dangerous sounding "libertarian", the American Republicans also copied the French by adopting "Libertarian" as a synonym for far-Right Republican: no government, no regulations, no taxes, do as you please as long as you don't get in my way of making money, etc. The neoliberal economist, Milton Friedman is known as a Libertarian economist... Ron Paul is a Libertarian, as is Paul Ryan who can quote verbatim the stupid words of Ayn Rand who said that greed is good and government and regulations limit growth and prosperity. This is the same anti-government Ayn Rand who was collecting Social Security benefits. And most of these Libertarians are just like their priestess Ayn Rand. Government is only beneficial when THEY need it. Government is "bad" when it helps the poor, minorities, women, the environment... but it's great when it hands over money from the bottom to the top when the banks lose big at the neoliberal casino, or a promising war aka. "humanitarian intervention" can be exploited to steal yet more money from our treasury. Libertarians always insist that there is no Left-Right paradigm, because in the Left-Right spectrum they fall within the far-right wing, just a few notches away from their cousin, Fascism. Libertarians want to dismantle government and in its place allow corporate power to grow unhindered and unregulated. Libertarian Socialists, or anarchists, on the other hand promote a highly organized society where central authority is replaced with small neighborhood and work councils, by which everything is settled via a consensus. Then each neighborhood council and workers' committee selects representatives by direct votes to represent each body in a federated national union. This is what the Qurds in Syria are attempting when they say they want a Federalized Syria. And this is the reason why everyone (especially Turkey and Iraqi Kurdistan) are against it.



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