Libertarianism in America

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It's our fault we fail- the radical anarchists have been portrayed as the stereotypical libertarian; I find that detrimental to our cause.

What? On the contrary, its Republican neocons like Bob Barr and Glenn Beck who have been portrayed as the "stereotypical libertarian."

Correct. Moreover, there has been far, far too much intermarriage in recent years between libertarians and the Religious Right/authoritarian populists.

On economics, we need a positive plan that doesn't stop at deregulating businesses. I want to encourage distributivist policies in libertarian thought - I want a plan to eliminate taxes on certain goods that are useful for manufacturing items in the home, to make it far easier for the poor and workers to start their own business. We also need to put our money where our mouths are when it comes to free-market principles - it's not enough to be pro-market when it helps large corporations; we need to use those principles to level the playing field between established industries and their competitors.

On social issues, I absolutely refuse to work with authoritarians. Too much has been surrendered to them already.

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The problem is that the large majority of Americans are lazy, and would rather be told what to do rather than have the freedom to do as they please. They "say" they'd prefer to have smaller government, but they always go to the voting booth and vote for who will give them more.

Which is why we must tie in some economic benefits to the lower classes - as long as libertarianism is seen as being purely an upper class phenomenon (erroneously, as the great leaders of industry have no desire to cede space to competition that a free-market would create) or a purely reactionary economic policy, we will get nowhere.

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As I've said before: libertarianism is, in fact, compatible with class-war -- it represents the small business owner, the small co-operative, the man who favors distributivism and equality-through-decentralization, as against the large industry that uses the force of the State to support its policy of monopolization.