From: george knysh
Message: 58815
Date: 2008-05-24
>****GK: Maybe. I take your point. Humans are very
> --- george knysh <gknysh@...> wrote:
>
> >
> > --- 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?)
> > >
> No, we used it to the bonfire at the Orwell book
> burning party ;p
> But seriously, if you spent anytime at all in a
> libertarian place like thus, you'd be praying for
> the
> likes of Gorby and Brezhnev
>
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