Quotes on Libertarian Anarchism

[juliusaugustus]

“Capitalism is the one system that requires absolute objective law, yet libertarians combine capitalism and anarchism. That’s worse than anything the New Left has proposed. It’s a mockery of philosophy and ideology.”

“Libertarian anarchism is pure whim worship, because what they refuse to recognize is the need of objectivity among men—particularly men of different views.”
Ayn Rand
I strongly disagree with most of Rand's ideas but she is 100% correct here.

“We must therefore conclude that we are not anarchists, and that those who call us anarchists are not on firm etymological ground, and are being completely unhistorical.”
Murray N. Rothbard

Libertarians are just as much "statists" as their opponents are. Their system requires it and that is why libertarian thinkers advocate it.

[tuwix]

The most powerful of that is Proudhon's "Property is theft." IMO.

[BIXX]

At first I thought you were talking about libertarian socialism and I was like "wtf wat".

That being said, why do libertarians hump Rand's shin if she said that about them?

[PC LOAD LETTER]

Since we're circle jerkin' here, Rothbard also said this nifty shit

Applying our theory to parents and children, this means that a parent does not have the right to aggress against his children, but also that the parent should not have a legal obligation to feed, clothe, or educate his children, since such obligations would entail positive acts coerced upon the parent and depriving the parent of his rights. The parent therefore may not murder or mutilate his child, and the law properly outlaws a parent from doing so. But the parent should have the legal right not to feed the child, i.e., to allow it to die.

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Now if a parent may own his child (within the framework of non-aggression and runaway freedom), then he may also transfer that ownership to someone else. He may give the child out for adoption, or he may sell the rights to the child in a voluntary contract. In short, we must face the fact that the purely free society will have a flourishing free market in children.

[Os Cangaceiros]

That would be pretty sweet if you were a parent and didn't want all the little ankle bitters & curtain climbers around anymore.

Wouldn't be so good if you were a child though. Although you could join a feral pack of runaways and mug the wealthy.

[PC LOAD LETTER]

That would be pretty sweet if you were a parent and didn't want all the little ankle bitters & curtain climbers around anymore.

Wouldn't be so good if you were a child though. Although you could join a feral pack of runaways and mug the wealthy.

You should write a novel about a feral pack of runaway children in a libertarian utopia who mug the wealthy.

[blake 3:17]

You should write a novel about a feral pack of runaway children in a libertarian utopia who mug the wealthy.

Isn't that called Oliver Twist?

[BIXX]

Isn't that called Oliver Twist?

http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=YLpUa...%3DYLpUatutZDw

[Jimmie Higgins]

MOVED TO OI LEARNING

Maybe it will generate more discussion here.

[Brandon's Impotent Rage]

Isn't that called Oliver Twist?

I thought it was called The Borribles?

[PC LOAD LETTER]

Isn't that called Oliver Twist?

Never actually read it. I'll add it to The List.