Is there any difference between libertarian and anarchist?
The theoretical consequences of anarchist philosophies are based on reality.
Is there any difference between libertarian and anarchist?
What I'm seeing here is two distinct arguments, but they closely relate to each other.
The first is "people are too stupid to be left alone therefore they need to be told what to do." The other is "people are too stupid to be left alone therefore they need to be told what to do by people like me." The first has the person making the argument that he is inferior, and needs to be led by the superior. The second has the person making the argument that he is superior, and needs to lead the inferior. It is, from a libertarian point of view, a false dichotomy, and it says far more about the people making the argument than it does about libertarianism.
Still, those stuck within that paradigm see libertarians saying "don't tell me what to do" and react with "since they feel they aren't part of the inferior, they must feel they are part of the superior." No, because our interest is in neither being master nor servant. Still, because we "think we are part of the superior" we are deemed arrogant and et cetera.
I don't know what is best for you. Therefore I do not feel any right to rule you. You don't know what is best for me. Therefore I deny your assertion that you can rule me.
Yes, there is a difference between libertarian and anarchist. First of all, which kind of anarchist? I'll assume you mean anarcho-capitalist, because that is the only kind in which the question makes sense.
Libertarians generally are minarchists. The belief is that since nobody really knows what is best for someone else, there should be as little government as possible. A night-watchman state that does little more than go after those criminals who violate the rights of others - rights being non-competitive and non-conflicting by nature. Anarcho-capitalists believe that even that much government is too much. Most critics say "but this will lead to monopoly" and then point to instances of government granted monopolies as evidence (see above where I addressed California's electricity "deregulation" disaster).
Anarcho-communists think that is some weird form of fascist, for reasons they cannot explain. An-caps say an-coms contradict themselves. An-coms say an-caps don't exist.
And your "what my argument fails to include" is actually an equivocation.
If I hire an electrician, that makes me the boss even though the electrician is an expert. That is entirely unlike the "tell people what to do" in a political sense, which is how I meant it and you knew that was how I meant it. Yes, it is FUCKING STUPID to confuse the two.
And your "what my argument fails to include" is actually an equivocation.
If I hire an electrician, that makes me the boss even though the electrician is an expert. That is entirely unlike the "tell people what to do" in a political sense, which is how I meant it and you knew that was how I meant it. Yes, it is FUCKING STUPID to confuse the two.
I do expect a politician to be less an expert. They are experts at politics, but that's about it.
Is there any difference between libertarian and anarchist?
Jason Howsyerfather said:The part that, because of the free market, the standard of living was raised to the point where children no longer needed to work the way they had in the days before the standard of living rose, when everyone worked grueling labor on the farm.Rhea said:What part of Libertarianism - stopped child labor exploitation? Can you explain better?
That's not actually what happened, though.
Is there any difference between libertarian and anarchist?
Is there any difference between libertarian and anarchist?
Anarchists are against private property. Libertarians are for private property. But libertarians haven't really figured out ways property rights can be defended.
Both are pie in the sky fantasies.
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"American libertarians are less a political party and more like a fundamentalist religious group who believe that the free market is their lord and savior. Here's why their platform might sound charmingly weird in theory, but in practice it's harmful."
Is there any difference between libertarian and anarchist?
Libertarians are (to quote Kim Stanley Robinson) anarchists who want police protection from their slaves.
Is there any difference between libertarian and anarchist?
Anarchists are against private property. Libertarians are for private property. But libertarians haven't really figured out ways property rights can be defended.
Both are pie in the sky fantasies.