Libertarianism in One Lesson

Critiques of Libertarianism ^ | 1-4-2003 | Mike Huben

[Texas Federalist]

This is a bogus description of Libertarianism. If you want a great philosophical description of Libertarian philosophy, read "The Structure of Liberty", by Boston University law professor Randy Barnett. It is a must read for any libertarian or small government conservative.

[Phantom Lord]

Conservatism and government at all levels could use a strong injection of some libertariansim. Libertarians are wrong on many things, but they are dead on right about many things as well.

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[Old Sarge]

You forgot, "All problems can be solved if we legalize marijuana. It won't solve YOUR problems, but I'LL get to smoke free dope!"

[prion]

This is a pretty sloppy stew.

[KJacob]

"Private ownership is the cure for all problems, despite the historical record of privately owned states such as Nazi Germany, Czarist and Stalinist Russia, and Maoist China."


I thought these states abolished private property when they came into power.

[GoLightly]

Someone had too much time on their hands.

[MrB]

Why the hostility, man?

The Libertarians and Constitutionalist ideologies are the closest to what this country was intended to be.

Limited power at the federal level, states with more power, and the people having the majority of the power.

Along came the safety net, took away individual responsibility, and thus took away individual liberty.

As government becomes more powerful and centralized, the individual loses freedom. Axiomatic.

[Always Right]

The problem with libertarianism is it just doesn't work. Most libertarians have the pet peeve issue that they take to the extreme, whether it be some anti-religious, pro-drug, sexual freedom, or whatever tilt. Were you to follow each of these positions to the extreme, it would be impossible for the government to do anything and you would have chaos.

[The Green Goblin]

I knew it would only be a matter of time before another ignorant conservative stumbled across the web site of that flaming liberal, Mike Huben, and posted his arguments against libertarianism.

Huben makes similar arguments against conservatism itself on his site, but I suspect you won't be posting those essays here anytime soon...

[Gun142]

All food, drugs, and medical treatments should be entirely unregulated: every industry should be able to kill 300,000 per year in the US like the tobacco industry.

Related source(s) = Moveon.org, Sarah Brady?

[furball4paws]

I know you think this is humorous, but it's really mush.

You should leave Rand out. She, personally, slammed Libertarians on several occaisions.

I really don't know what a Libertarian is, but then I have just as many questions about Republicans (conservatives) and Democrats (liberals) too.

[blanknoone]

Is your next post going to be Ralph Nader's description of the Republican platform?

[headsonpikes]

I never knew that you were on cinFLA's totalitarian morality squad!

Even to the point of posting socialist rubbish such as this, apparently.

Don't let him catch you smoking a cigarette or you'll be denounced as a Libertine and publicly stoned(the only kind of 'stone' that the Lamp of the Panhanle is comfortable with)!

LOL! Unholy alliance placemarker.

[jmc813]

I never knew that you were on cinFLA's totalitarian morality squad! Even to the point of posting socialist rubbish such as this, apparently.

Shhhh! This thread is an experiment. I'm testing a hypothosis.

[dead]

Holy cow! That was just about the ass-suckingest piece of confused drivel I'll read today, unless somebody posts some new Dowd.

[headsonpikes]

'Panhandle', rather, 'Lamp of the Panhandle'.

It does have a ring to it.

[headsonpikes]

okeydokey. ;^)

[truth_seeker]

"This brief outline..."

49 bullet points = brief?