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To: KarlInOhio
I've heard him described as a "libertarian socialist", which seems about as oxymoronic of a phrase as possible.

Not in northern Europe. I consider myself some sort of libertarian but the term itself is too vague.

31 posted on 04/22/2010 3:17:01 PM PDT by decimon
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To: decimon

“There isn’t much point arguing about the word “libertarian.” It would make about as much sense to argue with an unreconstructed Stalinist about the word “democracy” — recall that they called what they’d constructed “peoples’ democracies.” The weird offshoot of ultra-right individualist anarchism that is called “libertarian” here happens to amount to advocacy of perhaps the worst kind of imaginable tyranny, namely unaccountable private tyranny. If they want to call that “libertarian,” fine; after all, Stalin called his system “democratic.” But why bother arguing about it?”
Noam Chomsky


32 posted on 04/22/2010 3:20:33 PM PDT by ansel12 (Romney-"I longed in many respects to actually be in Vietnam and be representing our country there")
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