Noam motherfucking Chomsky. multiple sources making the same nebulous assertions as if they all read the back of the same cereal bbox is NOT an argument from a position of strength. I do not lionize Chomsky, and therefore he does not convince me with the power of his prestige and fame.
hittin up memgenerator and finding some shitty image macro with Ayn Rand on it does not argue for your position either. if you ever read Ayn Rand you didnt understand it, and thats ok, lotta people are too thick to get it.
Noam Chomsky: "
Libertarian means
Authoritarian in America because America is so
Perverse." he then conflates a business (large ones , and presumably small ones as well, but of course he never says...) with government, implying that the businesses are MORE authoritarian and autocratic because they have no accountability. However, participation in commerce with a business, large or small, as an employee, a supplier, a customer, or an investor is VOLUNTARY. If Noam doesnt like Burger King he can go to Macdonalds. If he doesn't like ADM he can buy a farm and grow his own wheat corn carrots and apples. Or he may find a supplier who is not run by ADM (local small farms abound still) If he chooses not to shop for clothing at the GAP the can still hit up Old Navy, or like Ghandi,, weave his own cloth from cotton he grew himself. At NO point does a business compell you to engage in commerce with them,, untill they get in bed with government. Noam does not,, at any mpoint in this video, object to Crony Capitalism, he objects to Capitalism. His long winded and poorly thought out whingeing NEVER explains how he would actually BE a "Libertarian Socialist" or even what one is. He, Just as YOU your wiki-page, and all the other sources espousing this "idea",, simply says "Well it isn't an oxymoron..." and leaves it at that.
philosophies are not defined by how they differ from other philosophies, ideas and ideologies, they are defined by an internally consistant and logical framework. Chomsky, the wiki-editors, the essayists, spooner, and all the rest never get down to defining their supposed philosophy, they spend all their time defending it,, and saying it ISN'T
<insert logical component which you view as negative here> while completely failing to say what it IS.
Trying to be the Santa Claus of political movements, who knows what everyone wants,m and prepares a special present for each good little boy and girls as long as they adopt a Mutualist and Collectivist Social Policy, and claimto be Libertarians is never gonna work. eventually you will have to take a solid position or you are simply farting in the wind.
Actual Libertarianism: the freedom to do what one wishes with their Time Money Property and Life, without interference, and without interfering with others.
Orwellian Newspeak Libertarianism: forced collectivism, forced socialism, and control of your life from cradle to grave by government mandate.
Actual Anarchy: a complete breakdown of civil order. lawlessness. elimination of all societal controls, and a reversion to the basest instincts.
Middle School Counterculture Rebel Anarchy: utopian universal communism.
Actual Socialism: control by The State of the means of production, as well as all real property, all resources, all labour and all people. see North Korea
Wooly Headed New Left Socialism: utopian universal communism.
Words either have a meaning, which can be understood and accepted by all sides as the basis for rational argument, or language is useless and we should just bash each other with clubs until one side falls down. (advantage: me)
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I say something that makes a point, and you say something that has nothing to do with it as a personal attack on me. Personally, it gives me an erection every time.