Yes, Libertarians Really Are Lazy Marxists

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5. Hey there.

I've been meaning to reappear on this thread and thank you and limpy in particular for your thoughts. This blogger is not someone with expertise on Marx, so I'm not surprised you questioned some of his ideas there. (I'm not all that well informed myself when it comes to Marx, honestly.) But I think he/she does a good job of critiquing classical economics.

Even if it's not entirely accurate, I'm quite amused by the title. And it sort of resonated with me a little because I have some friends and acquaintances who are captivated by Ron Paul or the Austrians and that sort of thing. Now, I'd put these people in a different category than academic libertarians or those who fund (right) libertarian politics. But when I talk to them, I can't help but note that we share some of the same frustrations; I tend to see their complaints about the current arrangements as more incomplete than mistaken and expect that our differences flow from those diagnostic discrepancies, so to speak. Often enough, I find myself thinking "you're partway there..."