All Along The Watchtower
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« on: September 08, 2016, 05:23:39 PM » |
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The people who founded the American libertarian "ideology" (if it rises to that level - a dubious assumption at best) thought that Communism, Fascism, and New Deal liberalism all amounted to the same thing - tyrannical left-wing "collectivism." They loathed any state-based attempts (or any attempts, period) to address economic and social inequality. Unsurprisingly, the intellectual heroes of modern American conservatives overlap greatly with those of libertarians - especially in terms of economics, where the two are basically indistinguishable (at least in relation to right-wing business interests e.g. the Kochs).
Of course, libertarianism may be part of the American Right, but it's by no means the only or even most significant part - especially considering who the 2016 Republican presidential nominee is...
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