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Originally Posted by Luckbox Inc
I'm not here to try to defend Ron Paul in any sort of way. My argument involved his supporters more than him or whatever specific votes he may or may not have made or whether or not he beats his wife--so the Halliburton stuff I'll just have to set aside.
But as to the above, why do you think that? Do you think libertarians are included in that? Or are they more aligned with the left in your view?
Take a real genuine ACist and not someone who went AC -> Trump, someone who is absolutely not racist, someone who really wants open borders, legalization of drugs, pardoning people convicted for drugs, is opposed to things like stop and frisk, etc. I think the biggest difference between an anarcho-socialist and an anarcho-capitalist is their view of human nature. ACists think that people are generally competitive and selfish and anarchists think that people are generally cooperative.
And probably ACists themselves are generally less cooperative and more selfish. Property is obviously theft in the same way as taxation is and the defense of property by the right-libertarians as if it were some kind of divine right as opposed to part of a social contract really betrays a lack of principles. Ostensibly their libertarianism is about what is fair for everyone and freedom from coercion for everyone, but it tends to boil down to "what is best for me" which is why at some extremes ACists justify things like slavery and pedophilia. Left-anarchists never have a problem with those arguments. They never have a problem saying of course we won't allow slavery or pedophilia.
ACists though are much more in a fantasy land than the already Utopian left-anarchists. The failure to recognize private tyranny and the symbiosis of private power and government is absurd.
Anyway, I think I've digressed a bit. Do I think these libertarians worship power and violence? Yeah, to some degree for sure. For very little reason, and planning to serve no one but themselves, these kinds of libertarians are quite often obsessed with using weapons to defend their property. It's not the same thing as bootlicking neo-cons, but it is a right-wing deviation from the anti-authoritarianism of the left-libertarians.