Self promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued Friday, January 28th, 2011 10:57am PST - promote requested by original submitter blankfist.

Every self righteous libertarian rant is a gun pointed at our transportation systems, our schools, our libraries, our general scientific advancement, our access to reasonable working conditions, our breathable air and potable water... should I go on?

This has some good points but it's really really naive and has a very distorted view of reality. Without government run police and courts, you just have private revenge and private paramilitary forces, like kindling for the cycle of violence to escalate. Plus corporations would flee the country unanimously and we'd be back in the stone age.

"People should have the right to do whatever they want, as long they don't infringe on the rights of others."

So how would a "non-statist" enforce such a principle? The free market?

If someone decides to forcefully take my property then what recourse do I have other than attempting to forcefully retake it?


(Upvote, just in case this is the message Libertarians really want to convey.)

>> ^Psychologic:

"People should have the right to do whatever they want, as long they don't infringe on the rights of others."
So how would a "non-statist" enforce such a principle? The free market?
If someone decides to forcefully take my property then what recourse do I have other than attempting to forcefully retake it?


This is the crux of the problem with anarchism.

This video is so full of fallacious arguments and lopsided fantasies that I don't even know where to begin.

Of course there are problems with the system. Of course rational people want things to change. But this is the very definition of throwing out the baby with the bath water.

If you espouse anarchy, then you have to, at the very least, explain how it will be different than "might makes right".

Or is that what you believe in?

We are a willing audience, if you have something to say other than "the system sucks". We know it sucks. Tell us why your system would be better, or stfu.

This is hopelessly condescending, hyperbolic and naive. Huge downvote for fanboy politics.

Blankfist, if you are so much into it, I can only recommend you visit two havens of anti-statism: Western Pakistan and Somalia. Rest assured you will not get "enslaved" by any Big Government there.

Wow, a libertarian who was willing to look up the word "statism" in Merriam-Webster!

Too bad he just ignored what was there and made up his own definition for it, and then pretended that the Merriam-Webster definition was the inevitable result of his definition.

I'm sorry, does this guy not understand that words really do have actual meanings, and ignoring them (especially after reading them) to arbitrarily ascribe some other meaning does -not- make his arguments stronger?

F'ing moron... or delusional... or lying. Pick any or all of them.

So if I go down the ladder, do I hit municipalitarianism?

libertarianism is anarchism for rich people.
is the state an oppressive force? damn right it is
is capitalism an even more oppressive and exploitative force? yep

abolish the state and let the principles of capitalism reign free, and the US will look like the voluntaryist utopia that is the congo. or somalia.

we need to imagine a better economic system.
we need more realistic options for egalitarian tribal communities.


also, this is hyperbolic. his cadence and use of visual devices is patronizing bullshittery.

“Government is not reason. It is not eloquence. Government is force; like fire it is a dangerous servant -- and a fearful master.” —George Washington, 1797