This argument is capped off with a nonsensical invocation of Marxism as the spectre looming behind all your bugbears. Have you read any Marx? I don’t recall any references to the importance of a nanny state to ending labour exploitation and class hegemony in his writings, nor those of his acolytes Trotsky, Gramsci, Fanon, Sartre or deBord.
This is why left libertarians and anarchists outside America think American libertarianism today is a poorly formulated and misdirected movement. Conservatives and those who think the most important and endangered expression of liberty is their drunk driving through school roads have all boarded the wagon, and as a result it’s lost its momentum and direction (though Aster’s thoughts above about American libertarians only opposing statist authority and violence are interesting).
]]>Well, ’tis original in the sense that I wrote it. The ideas are obviously derivative of Ayn Rand, with influence from Alice Miller, Ellen Willis, Riane Eisler, etc- if that’s what you mean by underlying work.
Otherwise, you’re welcome to email me as aster_perelandra@hotmail.com if you wish.
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