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lalibertarienne:

sexyliberty:

professorjoke:

sexyliberty:

I’m not sure what to think…

Well, I think you should pen it as a romcom and take it to MGM. “He’s a champion of the proletariat, she’s a defender of liberty, but together they’ll find a way to make things work! This summer, Matthew McConaughey and Sandra Bullock are” uhh… some sort of economic pun. You get the picture.

Hahaha, you actually made me feel loads better, thanks!

Maybe that screenwriting class will pay off.

I would totally go see it

Followers, when this becomes an instant classic like “Ghosts of Girlfriends Past” is, you can all thank me.

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precumbaby:

Ron Swanson is my personal hero. 

The Pyramid of Greatness is my guide through life.

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tordify:

Corporatism is Not Capitalism!

trevevseraphim:

sotrueithurtsomg.

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tylerferrari:

amandaumar:

Ron Paul Rumors Verified! Vote Ron Paul! Register to vote if you havn’t yet.

This is old but. 

Philly motherfucking D

Likes 

Ron Paul. 

sexyliberty:

I’m not sure what to think…

Well, I think you should pen it as a romcom and take it to MGM. “He’s a champion of the proletariat, she’s a defender of liberty, but together they’ll find a way to make things work! This summer, Matthew McConaughey and Sandra Bullock are” uhh… some sort of economic pun. You get the picture.

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marxsrevenge:

anarchei:

The Political Spectrum

What a beautiful example of American over-simplicity.

The problem with this graph is that it lacks an understanding of what the systems mean or work in practicality. For example, if you were meaning State Socialism (USSR) then you’d be correct it does end up on the “less freedom” side. However, Socialism being an economic system (like Capitalism) and not a political system then it has both “control” and “freedom” aspects determined entirely by the political system.

You see, governments and economies are not the same thing. It is like how you can have dictators run capitalist economies, you can also have republics run a capitalist economy, or some other fashion between the Authoritarian-Democracy spectrum. The Left-Right spectrum is not really indicative of anything in and of itself, but just an over simplification of different concepts meshed together to create coherent propaganda.

The important thing that needs to be taken from this by the propaganda artists who made this is that Marxism, Communism, and some forms of Socialism are very much closer to Anarchist and more freedom by the very nature of their system. Marxism is a very libertarian friendly system as any libertarian who has actually read Marx would know. The propaganda that Marxism, Socialism, and Communism equate to control were all created through examples towards State Socialism without any understanding that these things are all different.

You’ve got it right, marxsrevenge. An excellent piece, comrade.

Government does not equal economics. If you ask me, there needs to be a separation of economics and state in the same manner and for the same reasons as the separation of church and state (okay, that’s a direct Ayn Rand quote. I just happen to agree with her).

This is why I’m a libertarian - I don’t know what’s best for other people, I don’t think that I (or anyone else [especially the government]) should be able to dictate someone else’s life for them. An anti-capitalist could say that capitalism fulfills that role as much as government does, but this is a position that I’ve come to accept as conspiracy theorist in nature. At the end of the day, the Marxist and the adherent to Austrian economics seem to be talking past one another.

There’s a saying (not by Ayn Rand this time) that says the difference between a capitalist society and a communist one is that communism can exist within capitalism (y’all can get together, buy land, set up a Marxist city and what nots), but capitalism cannot exist within communism. An anti-capitalist might disagree with this. I’d say that both can exist in the same society, as long as the government isn’t allowed to dictate the economic climate for everyone.
(Friggin’ Keynesians, ya know?)

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marxsrevenge:

professorjoke:

Posting it instead of reblogging it, because I think a little forward is necessary.

The article itself is filled with inflammatory and equivocal language. Bits like “Socialism, communism, Marxism, whatever you want to call it” and “Marxism demands a strict centralized command and control…

It saddens me that people can be so ignorant. It saddens me that they think people who believe in strong central control are Marxists or that America is coming under their control.

Marxists and Libertarians have a lot in common.

I’ve been saying this for a while now. Power to the people is an ideal of both systems. There’s disagreement over the approach, collectivism vs. individualism, but that’s simply the means to the end, not the end itself. We all want individuals to become fully empowered and allowed to live their lives to the best of their abilities and wishes. Centralized government and enslaving the proletariat are not ideals of either one (though both are ideals of the fascists and corporatists that Marxists and Libertarians are equally opposed to).