Comments on: The Lost Cause

By: admin

admin — Tue, 23 Jul 2013 00:39:21 +0000

Isn’t that criticism rather abstract and universalist?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 22 Jul 2013 23:29:16 +0000

“for any other reason beyond racism ”

lol

By: Lesser Bull

Lesser Bull — Mon, 22 Jul 2013 18:41:13 +0000

Your argument equating the Revolution with the Civil War partakes of an unneoreactionary abstraction and universalism.

By: admin

admin — Mon, 22 Jul 2013 15:28:54 +0000

“The problem with the GOP in America is leadership” — I think there’s a more serious structural problem. The Right doesn’t roll-back what the Left does, except occasionally, and at the margin. That’s not a series of unfortunate glitches in the system, it is the system.

On the other hand, the more seasteading — and in fact pretty much anything Peter Thiel is trying to do — the better.

By: Matt Olver

Matt Olver — Mon, 22 Jul 2013 15:10:53 +0000

"Nobody loses all the time." — Warren Oates as Bennie in Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia Libertarianism is gaining traction now more than ever, and especially with young voters who know the real deal with Obama fascism. Ron Paul won a few caucus states last primary season. The problem with the GOP in America is leadership not a faction of libertarian losers. Peter Thiel has even chipped in. He's dreaming big with his libertarian seasteading ideas.

By: Discipline

Discipline — Mon, 22 Jul 2013 08:25:08 +0000

How many of those are there? I’ve heard of some kids making $10/hour flakking for their groups, but there isn’t exactly a vast libertarian patronage system out there. There’s a tiny, rickety one, for losers.

By: Heath

Heath — Mon, 22 Jul 2013 06:13:26 +0000

College libertarians tend to be into Rothbard. They drop Rothbard when they decide they want to be Koch-funded professional libertarians.

By: Matt Olver

Matt Olver — Mon, 22 Jul 2013 02:40:49 +0000

I'm a libertarian of the Rothbardian type. Most of my compatriots tend to view the Cato Institute types as snooty beltway libertarians obsessed with policy and economic think-tank outlets with little concern for the voting sphere of Congress, and usually they have good reason for that since the political game is bought and paid for; just look to the criminal organization outfit run out of Chicago called AIPAC. The Rothbardian/Ron Paul types are all indirectly associated with the Mises Institute whether those of us realize it or not and we are the libertarian philosophy in action (as in most of my kind of libertarian is an activist of some stripe). As a Wisconsinite my type of libertarianism is a bit different when it comes to the history of the Civil War compared to my Southern activist friends. Lincoln was a big part of my hometown, he stayed in the Lincoln-Tallman House where the bed and sheets from his stay are still maintained today. There is also the Milton House. Lincoln famously led annihilation campaigns against Chief Blackhawk and the Sauk Indians in and around my hometown, and the main park in Janesville is an ancient Indian burial ground with mounds. If I were alive back then I'd be considered a Copperhead or a libertarian anarchist of the Lysander Spooner No Treason type. My type of libertarian sees Chomsky as a critical but grounded court-historian who is controlled dissent from the Cathedral. Basically, he makes some nice commentary now and then, but he's still a dirty statist.

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 22 Jul 2013 01:40:02 +0000

“a Rothbardian/Chomskyite view”

Ahahaha. An anti-cathedralist/ultracathedralist alliance. Does anyone seriously believe that could ever happen? Or make internal sense?

I also notice that the Rothbardians are a lot more interested in allying with the Chomskyites than vice-versa, which suggests to me that the Chomskyites are the cannier of the two.

By: Discipline

Discipline — Sun, 21 Jul 2013 23:49:28 +0000

Their situation is that of being priests with very tiny, inorganic parishes. If they’re professors or adjuncts, they have their students. Many of those students are quite fervent (particularly the GMU crowd) — **while they’re students.** They also have their ‘Orange Line’ pedestals from which to preach to a fair number of wealthy and middle class subscribers to their various newsletters and journals.

Rothbardian professors like, say, Hoppe or Walter Block, may also have tiny groups students, and they teach at nonentity universities. But owing to the internet megaphone they have tens and tens of thousands of followers in the wilderness from all walks of life and all levels of wealth.

Ron Paul has a horde of ragged fanatical liber-jihadis decrying the Great Satan Bernanke in comment sections all o’er the internet. Koch & Co. has all the polish and none of the old-time religion.