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In reply to the discussion: Proud Member Of "The Glenn Greenwald Left" Here. [View all]HumansAndResources
(229 posts)... like ending war and civil liberties. I don't agree.
Besides, Libertarians make me laugh sometimes - like when they correctly say that calling the right to drive a car a "privilege" is totalitarian (and it is), but then say all the roads should be privatized, so that no one can go anywhere without a "road owner's" permission. Their double-think can be beyond belief.
The Libertarians see the government-oppression / bureaucracy side of the oppression-equation, but are blind to the Corporate side and the plight of 'working folks' - as is evidenced by their attacks on unions. We on the Left should not make ourselves proportionately blind, giving government-power a pass.
In my reading of history, most "cooperative government solutions" are just wolf in sheep's clothing tricks to provide continued legitimacy, through calculated limits on brutality against working-folk, to an economic system which is, at its core, a form of slavery. It reminds me of the "loan forgiveness" from the IMFraud / World Bunk - a trick to continue the legitimacy of that Cabal of Criminals which exists to fund Bechtel et al by stealing from poor nations' future generations' incomes. (" target="_blank">See here)
The rich usually write so-called "liberal" legislation through their "left" think-tanks, and then feign outrage at its passing from their "right" mouthpieces. The test is simple: As long as one must continue to "take orders" from a bureaucrat or corporation in order to have the "privilege" to exist on Earth, the legislation was a failure for working folks.