He calls these not-nice libertarians “brutalists.” The nice ones are “humanitarian.”
Basically, brutalists are libertarians that do not have the
same open-arm, embrace-all world-view as Jeffrey Tucker. He is a humanitarian.
The brutalists insist on core principle. The humanitarians see where sticking to
principle can get in the way of the world in which they prefer to live.
There, now you have saved yourself about 2300 words.
Call this my public service, in the interest of humanity.
(HT EPJ)
Very nice, sorta'.
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Call me cynical but if this isn't the beginning of an attempted purge then what is? Won't be too long until the Tuckers, the Reisenwitzes, the Milequetoastarians and Technocrats start marginalising and disawowing those who don't tow the line of the culture-warring left.
ReplyDeleteIt is not the beginning of a purge, it is the continuation of the (attempted) purge of Rothbard with a tangential chapter being the (attempted) purge of Ron Paul.
DeleteI call it "The Tucker Diaspora."
Delete"It is not the beginning of a purge, it is the continuation of the (attempted) purge of Rothbard with a tangential chapter being the (attempted) purge of Ron Paul."
DeleteYup. And that's why I stick with mises.org
6:09 AM Anon here.
ReplyDeleteSorry if I misconstructed this. The treatment both Rothbard and Paul recieve in the "movement" has irked me for some time now, especially the tendency to negate their achievements and portray them as a bunch of delusional loons.
So the questions to ask would be why and who, correct?
I can only speculate:
DeleteWhy? Because the two stand for principle over acceptance. I imagine there is plenty of psychological thought as to why less principled people who want to be seen as principled react strongly when faced with principle.
Who? The less principled who want to be accepted into respectable society - whether for political, financial, or other gain.
All of this "brutalist" brou-haha baffles me. Either these people are honest and horribly misguided, or they are part of a concerted attempt to dilute the ideas of liberty and more closely associate them with personal social preferences. I don't really care if another libertarian is a nice guy or not - when we are discussing political philosophy, I only care how much they believe in and support the ideas of liberty. Whether they are "nice, caring" folks or not is rather irrelevant. It might be relevant to whether or not we are real life friends, but not to whether we can advance the ideas of liberty together.
ReplyDeleteExcellent summary!
Jeffrey Tucker is not an humanitarian, and the rothbardiands are not brutalists. The problem here is that both the Thin and the Thick interpret Colossians 3 differently, in a way which, I believe, is not consistent with libertarianism. Not even the atheists, if they were brave enough to read Colossians chapter 3, would interpret that correctly.
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