- 31 Mar 2016 03:27
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Edit: Libertarianism is not a Economic system nor a form of Social Organization, baring the exception of a formalized lack of one being considered one.
Logical thought: Groups - Individuals = 0, Individuals - Groups=Individuals, ergo: Individuals > Groups. Libertarianism is not a social organization except in the broadest sense of the word, the entire idea is your not a group. Can I dedicate twenty percent of my day living in Socialism and seventy percent being a Communist and ten percent being a Capitalist and not contradiction myself. I might even call myself a a Communist Socialist Capitalist just to mess with people who get caught on the labels. Libertarianism doesn't require you to live deep in the Mountains by yourself with no other people for forty miles. You can love peace eighty percent of the time and then enter a fighting ring the other twenty percent and love both things. A person can have an individual identity as well as a social identity.
quetzalcoatl wrote:Second, I look at an ideology's foundation. The main issue is how well it fits in with our knowledge of evolved human behavior, both at the individual and social levels.
Libertarianism fails the second filter. It does recognize human tendencies towards autonomy, but it fails to effectively deal with human social organization. Human social behavior does not arise from free interaction of individuals. Period. Hierarchical social organization and collective action are hardwired.
The Manichean individualist/statist worldview is philosophically idealist, and untenable.
Edit: Libertarianism is not a Economic system nor a form of Social Organization, baring the exception of a formalized lack of one being considered one.
Logical thought: Groups - Individuals = 0, Individuals - Groups=Individuals, ergo: Individuals > Groups. Libertarianism is not a social organization except in the broadest sense of the word, the entire idea is your not a group. Can I dedicate twenty percent of my day living in Socialism and seventy percent being a Communist and ten percent being a Capitalist and not contradiction myself. I might even call myself a a Communist Socialist Capitalist just to mess with people who get caught on the labels. Libertarianism doesn't require you to live deep in the Mountains by yourself with no other people for forty miles. You can love peace eighty percent of the time and then enter a fighting ring the other twenty percent and love both things. A person can have an individual identity as well as a social identity.