Originally posted by Anti-
[email protected] 10 2006, 03:40 AM
Since I am new to communist forum or whatever you reds...
Libertarianism and capitalism are inherantly opposed to each other, because as you will hear the nature of capitalism is to make classes which limit the freedoms of other classes.
Labor unionism is one of the few economic activities which can allow the worker or otherwise dispossed class to stand up to authority. Of course, supporting it implies supporting its economic activity however, which is strange for a so - called "libertarian."
I can't really arge about taxes except in regard to the nature of a given society, though currenty taxes need to be comparably levelled, though overhauled.
Capital punishment is an awful sin to any kind of humanism. To claim that a man must die is one thing, perhaps based on economic conditions and his ability to kill others lest he be killed, but to say that life in prison is not enough is to go beyond security and enter into destructiveness and necrophilia.
Gay rights are certainly logical.
Social security should be left the way it is, or strenghtened, not prifvatized and then systematically destroyed.
Free healthcare is better.
Moderate environmentalism seems to imply that some things should be regulated (nuclear waste or poisonous emissions?) but that going so far as to say "a crime against the environment today is a crime against the environment of our children" is to go too far. I have to agree with the latter, but I concede that this is a hazy issue at times.
Smaller government is something I support, but probably not in the same sense.
9&10 seem to make sense.
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I assume that by "free" trade you mean a government with capitalism? I can't agree with either a truly uncontrolled, unequal economy or capitalism with regulation.
Illegalization of immigration is a claim on property in order to support certain selfish ends. I support the right to go to and from the borders of countries.
Gun control has positive and negative effects, though I think that without the presence of another crime, individual gun ownership is not bad.
I agree that a war on drugs that includes authority is bad, but I think that steps should be made to encourage a drugless lifestlye.
Israel is largely under our (U.S.) control, so I think our country should systematically withdraw support in oder to encourage their activites to be more humanistic while still maintaining order in the region, because thye have created a culture of religious hatred that cannot be ignored.
NCLB is bad, Patriot acts eat away or freedoms, but communism is an honorable end which should be supported; it is the very nature of a free society to be communist.
I think you will find that capitalism is not a great supporter of freedom. Adam smith said that we ought to be wary of businessmen, and recent capitalist supporters have often changed course upon realizing that capitalism creates a governing class that controls many aspects of social life.