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Believing they alone are possessed of the ultimate key to understanding the way humans are or should be organized, Marxist deny the legitimacy of the nationstate and would impose their own new system of rule, not according to national lines, but according to an economic doctrine.

Libertarians are likewise convinced of their unique apprehension of the key to everything. They believe that the organizing principle should be individual liberty and the economic outworking of untrammeled commerce done by free individuals. To the degree that a nationstate imposes limitations and requirements on individuals and obstructs their freedom, the nationstate is illegitimate, except in extremely limited circumstances.

Since Ron Paul lives in America, he discusses the illegitimacy of the nation in which he lives. It is not so much that Ron Paul blames America first, he blames the institution of the nationstate first and he happens to live in the most powerful nation state on earth.

At this gut level the libertarian is no less a revolutionary than the Bolshevik except that the libertarian will not resort to violence to do away with the nationstate. He does not fear the takeover of the nationstate by the Bolsheviks because he believes that his organizing principle must ultimately and inevitably prevail so there is no use shedding blood to obtain that which will come anyway.

Likewise, he does not fear sharia because it is built on a false foundation, a false organizing principle which must, like communism, give way to the greater truth owned by Libertarians.


19 posted on 12/30/2011 9:19:51 AM PST by nathanbedford ("Attack, repeat, attack!" Bull Halsey)
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NB, I’m disappointed that you would make any comparison between libertarian and Marxism or Sharia both are diametrically opposed to libertarianism. The real problem is that most people don’t appear to know much about libertarian principles except for faulty descriptions generally provided by what I call collectivism. Read L.V. Mises book, “Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War” for some factual basis of libertarian thinking about nation states. The Amazon excerpt will get you a synopsis.


62 posted on 12/30/2011 2:20:50 PM PST by iopscusa (El Vaquero. (SC Lowcountry Cowboy))
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