From: Rick McCallister
Message: 58804
Date: 2008-05-24
>No, we used it to the bonfire at the Orwell book
> --- Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@...> wrote:
>
> >
> > --- david_russell_watson <liberty@...>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick
> McCallister
> > > <gabaroo6958@...>
> > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Libertarianism is a far right ideology
> > >
> > > No, it most certainly is not. You're no less
> > > mistaken
> > > placing it on the right than Marius is placing
> it
> > on
> > >
> > > the left.
> > >
> > > You're not only mistaken about where
> > libertarianism
> > > is
> > > on the political scale, but also in regard to
> the
> > > rest
> > > of the description you gave of it.
> > >
> > > I'm afraid that you could only be a leftist
> > > ideologue
> > > yourself to so shamelessly present such a
> > > distortion,
> > > but maybe you're just someone thoroughly
> deceived
> > by
> > >
> > > their propaganda. El Salvador's in no way
> > > imaginable
> > > a libertarian country.
> > >
> > > You and Noam Chomsky both might be better off
> > > sticking
> > > to linguistics. :^)
> > >
> > > David
> > >
> > Any ideology that puts property above human beings
> > is
> > right-wing.
>
> ****GK: Like the "real Communism" of the 20th c.****
>
> And any ideology that abrogates
> > investment
> > in the well-being of the people while preserving
> > social inequity at all costs is far right-wing.
>
> ****GK: Like practically all varieties of
> "Communism".
> "Right" and "Left" have become pretty meaningless
> categories.****
>
> You
> > need to come down and live in El Salvador for a
> year
> > or two --not in the mansions of the rich, but in
> the
> > slum where I live, so you can see libertarianism
> in
> > action. In a week or two, you will become a
> > card-carrying bolshevik singing the
> Internationale.
>
> ****GK: Not if you read "Animal Farm" (in Spanish:
> is
> it available?)****
> >