Re: Ethno-Nationalism, or Racism, or Whatever??? ( was Re: a discuss

At 8:18:29 AM on Friday, May 23, 2008, alexandru_mg3 wrote:

>--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "david_russell_watson" liberty@...>
> wrote:

>> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alexandru_mg3"
>> <alexandru_mg3@> wrote:

>> - edit -

>>> Of course: because your ideology (as I alreday said) is
>>> a FAR-LEFT one

>> I'm sick of reading this. I am a libertarian, not a
>> leftist, which I've mentioned more than once now. Sources
>> describing libertarianism and discussion of it are all
>> over the internet so you have no excuse not to know what
>> it is. I don't think you can find a single suggestion in
>> all of recorded political discourse that libertarianism
>> belongs to the left.

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "david_russell_watson"
> <liberty@...> wrote:

>>>> Of course, but why should the rest of us care? I don't
>>>> like nations myself, and would love to see them
>>>> collapse every one.

> 1. If it wasn't you that have written the thing above ->
> than I apologize for the qualification that I made
> 'far-left ideology'

> 2. But If the words above belongs to you, you can go to
> check to any Political University in the word to ask them
> to what Ideology such assertions belongs: if they will
> tell you something else than "A kind of Far-Left Ideology"
> than I will apologize again in public here....

Bluntly, you don't know what you're talking about. I
suggest that you take David's advice and read up on
libertarianism. I don't know (or care) precisely which
flavor of libertarianism is his, but *all* of them place a
premium on individual liberty, and *all* of them favor a
minimum of government. All of them also place a very high
value on the notion of private property, and all of them
oppose any sort of welfare state; this alone marks them very
clearly as NON-left, at least as the term is normally used
in the U.S. By the way, libertarianism isn't far-right,
either, though in the U.S. there is some tendency to see it
as distinctly more right than left, and I suspect that a
great many Americans would classify a good many of David's
views as pretty far right.

Brian