(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . On Rightwing Libertarianism [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.', 'Backgroundurl Avatar_Large', 'Nickname', 'Joined', 'Created_At', 'Story Count', 'N_Stories', 'Comment Count', 'N_Comments', 'Popular Tags'] Date: 2023-02-26 On Rightwing Libertarianism Currently, a lot of kids are being bombarded by parents and relatives with rightwing books expressing rightwing libertarian ideas like the Tuttle Twin books and even Ayn Rand Novels. Here I explore their ideas briefly. Recently, I noticed a pile of Matt Tibbe’s[1] books entitled “Don’t Hurt People: A Libertarian Manifesto” at a local Dollar General store all signed by the author and discounted to a dollar. It was very out of place as most books sold there are romance and horror novels. Now I wonder if this was an attempt to bring right-wing libertarianism to the discount loving masses. Picking up a copy, I read the list of the “rules of liberty” on the back of the book and instantly decided I needed to respond. “1. Don’t hurt people.” The Right-wing Libertarians (from now on will be referred to as RL to save space) place this principle first, since it helps protect the loot, they have extracted from the working class by enforcing the other so-called rules of liberty. Hoarding the wealth to themselves they create the conditions of poverty which kills the poor in so many ways. And when the poor rise against their oppression, to redistribute the wealth stolen from their labor, there will be the intellectuals of the RL telling them that they can’t hurt anyone. So, they can only politely ask for equality. And when the upper classes say NO, then to meekly return to one’s home. Hell NO! Poverty kills and we will not go quietly. “2. Don’t take people’s stuff.” Really? The very foundations of capitalism were in taking other peoples stuff (the gold of the new world, the labor of African slaves and the labor of newly ‘freed’ peasants) by sword or gunpoint. The very people who possess the wealth of the poor now says we cannot take it back. “3. Take responsibility.” RL’s believe that your responsible for everything that happens to you and no one else. If the factory in your small town suddenly closes and moves to China. It is your fault. You should have taken less pay, you should have voted for more tax breaks for the factory, maybe you should have quit and moved before you got canned. See its always your fault and never the corporations which own the factories and workplaces. It’s never their responsibility. However, we shall make it our responsibility to take away their power over us by seizing the means of production and running things ourselves. “4. Work for it.” This is rich coming from folks who never did hard labor +50 hours a week. Folks who live off the labor of the working class and others, should not say “work for it.” And one day soon we will take back the stolen loot of our labor from the 1% and make them labor equally with us til full automation liberates us all. “5. Mind your own business.” It is our business to stop you from oppressing our class. It is my business to end oppression and share the wealth taken by the 1% over the centuries. It is our business if you oppress others based on sex, gender, race, caste, creed or sexuality. It is our business to help stop the wars of the Empire and to establish peace thru social revolution. “6. Fight the power.” We will fight the power. Taking a stand against capitalism, its beliefs and you! But first we thank you for giving us the power. For bringing us together and socializing us to work together building better and better machines, robots, and AI. All of which will cause the rate of profit to collapse destroying capitalism in the process. At that point we will seize the means of production and share its goods & services amongst all peoples upon the basis of radical equality and self-determination. Libertarianism in its American form (elsewhere folks use the term to mean anarchism of the non-capitalist variety) is a political justification for keeping things just as they are economically. While throwing the masses, a few crumbs (I mean social freedoms concerning drugs and privacy). They use the principle of private property to hide the fact that wealth is stolen from workers every day and that the origin of capitalist property is in the theft of the wealth of the New World and of the labor (and bodies) of African slaves. [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/2/26/2155178/-On-Rightwing-Libertarianism Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/