libertarianism is self-refuting

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Frankly, Straha's initial argument is asinine. Libertarianism does not advocate corporate control of the populace. Its emphasize is on government and its regulation of the economy. I don't see how a free market automatically equals monopoly and a corporatist state. Like any ideology, libertarianism at the most extreme could be seen as the exercise of one ideal to the exclusion of all others. However, in reality libertarianism does not exist in a vacuum and it is certainly countered by other points of view. It does not counter itself because the ideal of person freedom is consistent throughout the ideology.