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Why I Hate Your Freedom: the Non-Libertarian FAQ
november 2011 by acb
A good refutation of Libertarian/Randroid/free-market fundamentalist talking points.
libertarianism
politics
economics
dogma
debunking
november 2011 by acb
China Miéville's critique of floating libertarian utopias
august 2011 by acb
"Beyond the single one-trick fact of its watery location, it is tragically non-ambitious, crippled with class anxiety, nostalgic not for mythic glory but for the anonymous sanctimony of an invented 1950s. This is no ruling class vision: it is the plaintive daydream of a petty bourgeoisie, whose sulky solution to perceived social problems is to run away—set sail into a tax-free sunset. "
politics
libertarianism
objectivism
utopia
psychoceramics
august 2011 by acb
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