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Let’s consider what things would look like if Libertarianism was a realistic option. How about the Islamic State? We send our missionaries to Iraq, proclaim the good news of deregulation, and then what? The people beat their 1990s Toyota pick-ups loaded with rocket-launchers into plowshares? How about Mexico and Central America? Do the cartels and kingpins voluntarily consent to the Non-aggression Principle by force of market persuasion? Or do they themselves persuade the market as they always have? Such scenarios are preposterous because the conditions which make Libertarianism intelligible are themselves dependent on a legal, philosophical, and constitutional legacy which is provided by something else, namely more ancient thoughts of statecraft. A pre-modern Libertarianism is a threat to exactly no one because it cannot even get off the ground. -- Steven Wedgeworth wedgewords.wordpress/2014/08/29/and-the-culprit-is-libertarianism/
Posted on: Mon, 08 Sep 2014 17:16:34 +0000

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