Thread: Libertarianaism is a Left Wing ideology.

BC how many times before you get it - Libertarianism is NOT about Left or Right but about Freedom or Totalitarianism.

simple really

Originally Posted by British-Conservatism

Strange how you call the BNP left wing then isnt it?

If that is what you believe Totalitarianism to mean

my exact quote (which I nicked of Sven Hassel and he should know) is
"2 sides of the same coin"

As long as I am on the opposite wing to the fascists, I couldn't care less what wing you call it.

Originally Posted by British-Conservatism

There is a false assumption, a grossly false assumption, that libertarianism is some sort of Right-wing philosophy. I would assert most strongly, it is not. Properly understood libertarianism in its “classical liberal” incarnation was the original Left wing of politics. The Right wished to “conserve” the prevalent social order. Liberals did not. They wished to reform it in many different way including ending the feudal system, abolition of the church/state alliance and ending the government coddling of certain business interests through subsidies, monopolies and protectionism. There was very, very little which classical liberals though worthy of conserving. The advocates of conserving the social order were called conservatives and their method for doing so was the use of State force.

We could debate this all day, but frankly it is irrelevant and doesn't matter one bit. Something being left wing doesn't make it false and to presume that it did would be a fallacy.

What matters is that libertarianism is the best political theory, unlike the failed theories of nationalism, socialism, anarchism and so forth.

Originally Posted by gc

I agree with BC. It is a left-wing affliction. Where the hell did fascism come into the arguement?

See another who doesn't get it, left vs right is so yesterday and has been superseded by Libertarianism / Totalitarianism