| Among the Libertarian circles, Socialism and | | | | then, I began to investigate the matter of rights |
| Communism are frequently regarded as the greatest | | | | much more. Libertarians, like many Capitalists, believe |
| evil -- that is, to say, the greatest opposition to | | | | that Animal Rights Activists are opposed to Free |
| liberty, and anything to oppose freedom must | | | | Enterprise, in that they want to make it illegal to |
| considered an evil. Essentially, Libertarianism is a basis | | | | purchase or kill animals. The fault with this |
| for obtaining an opinion on social issues: those things | | | | understanding of rights is that it applies only to |
| which encroach upon personal liberty are to be | | | | humans. A person would be even more Libertarian if |
| opposed. The Libertarian thought represents a great | | | | they thought it should be made legal to kill human |
| deal of progressive ideals, as well as conservative | | | | beings and sell their body parts as food and |
| ideals. Simply put, Libertarianism does not place | | | | decoration. Those who had a Libertarian mindset in |
| emphasis on liberal versus conservative, or new | | | | the 1800's, they would believe that such rights are |
| versus old. Rather, it is based on the one idea of | | | | excluded to women. To promote a woman's right to |
| liberty, hence the title. For gay rights, Libertarianism is | | | | autonomy, they may argue, would be "to destroy a |
| supportive of it, since it promotes a person's right to | | | | man's right to property, in his partner." In the 1700's, |
| their own private activity. For Censorship, it is | | | | those who argued for the abolition of slaves would |
| opposed, since demotes a person's right to their | | | | be opposed by the Libertarians. To promote any |
| individual liberty. In these ways, Libertarianism is similar | | | | man's right to autonomy, they may argue, would be |
| to that of progressive ideals. As far as Free Trade | | | | "to destroy the slaver's right to slavery in his |
| and Capitalism go, Libertarianism is supportive, again, | | | | subjects." A modern Libertarian may argue against |
| based on the fact that just as a person ought to | | | | these comparisons, "But today we recognize the |
| have social and political liberty, they must also have | | | | rights of all men and women!" That may be so. |
| economic liberty, and right to sell and purchase | | | | Regardless, the point remains: what a Libertarian |
| without hindrance. In this way, Libertarianism is closer | | | | understands "the right to property" to mean is apt to |
| to conservative rather than liberal values. However, | | | | change with the changing social values.Thus, we |
| as I stated earlier, Libertarianism is not based on | | | | come to Socialism, or Communism, where a person's |
| promoting or demoting ideals based on whether they | | | | economic rights are curtailed by legislation. I confess, |
| are new or old, liberal or conservative, radical or | | | | it is an infringement of liberty -- but of what liberty? |
| archaic. Libertarianism is based solely on the idea of | | | | Of the liberty to provide men with only one option: |
| opposing laws and regulations which interfere with | | | | of sacrificing eight hours of their days so that they |
| personal liberty.Yet, for this statement to have any | | | | can live on the brink of poverty while their children |
| meaningful context, one must understand another | | | | starve on the streets as beggars. The Communist is |
| question: what is personal liberty? If I were to say | | | | not blind. He knows quite clearly what the Capitalist |
| that Libertarianism is based on promoting individual | | | | system is: exploitation by coercion. The Capitalist will |
| liberty, I would be withholding the entire story. There | | | | argue, "But the worker has but a thousand |
| are certain liberties which Libertarianism specifically | | | | employers he can seek out! He is free and |
| restrict. The so-called personal rights are promoted, | | | | independent!" Whatever guise or illusion you put over |
| where a person is not allowed to steal or to kill | | | | the same system, the odor of contradiction and |
| another. This is the great contradiction of | | | | misery are not snuffed out. Yes, the worker can quit |
| Libertarianism: a man may do whatever he pleases, | | | | his job, but he must forever be tied to a job, |
| so long as he does not infringe upon the rights of | | | | offering his labor power in exchange for subsistence. |
| another -- these rights often defined in a variety of | | | | To say that the worker is free to quit his job is |
| ways, but always by the Libertarian thinker himself. | | | | synonymous with "the worker is free to starve, if he |
| They great failure of these thinkers is simple: they | | | | is unhappy with the circumstances." The freedom to |
| have not been able to intrinsically denote the | | | | starve -- that is what Capitalism offers, and that is |
| difference between "the right to protection from | | | | the liberty that Communism wishes to ameliorate. |
| theft" and "the right to protection from economic | | | | Instead of workers employed in creating wealth for |
| exploitation," or "the right to protection from being | | | | their masters, the system of masters will be |
| offended by another's sexual preference." A person | | | | completely overthrown, and the workers will work |
| may argue, for instance, that to walk nude in public | | | | for themselves. The wealth of their labor will go |
| will offend them, and cause them harm, just as much | | | | directly to themselves, and not to some idle king, |
| as someone stealing their property. Yet a Libertarian | | | | whose right to property has given him a right to |
| thinker would respond that the nudist has his rights | | | | exploitation.I am a Communist, but I still believe in a |
| while the thief does not. The problem is that there is | | | | person's individual rights. There was once a time |
| no argument to promote one right and to debase | | | | when liberty involved the right to enslave another, be |
| another. It is just assumed that the "natural rights" | | | | they man or woman. Today, liberty means the right |
| are opposed to theft and murder. Essentially, the | | | | to enslave another, namely the worker. By |
| problem of its ideology is this: it fails to make the | | | | destroying this right, we are fulfilling justice and duty, |
| distinction of the right of not being offended to the | | | | just as the revolutionaries of centuries past, whose |
| right of life -- that Libertarianism will promote liberty | | | | goal it was to see the chains taken from the slave -- |
| when it's to go nude, but not when it is to steal. | | | | so that a person will be recognized for who they are, |
| There may be some inane, erroneous work which | | | | and not as property. Slavery has debased the soul by |
| attempts to justify "natural rights" of life and | | | | denying that an individual is incapable of passion, |
| property, but I've yet to find anything substantial to | | | | beyond the scope of thought and foresight. |
| defend these rights over any others.When growing | | | | Capitalism has debased the mind and the body; it fills |
| up, and developing my initial theories of justice and | | | | us with the lies that a corporate thief has the right |
| fairness, I could typically be classified as a Libertarian | | | | to the wealth we create, and it steals from us those |
| in the classical sense: I believed that a person's | | | | eight hours, those precious moments where we could |
| individual liberty ought to be respected. At this time, I | | | | be with a loved one, where we could be admiring the |
| did not understand the whole nature of rights -- I did | | | | creations of artists and musicians -- Capitalism puts us |
| not understand that while I promoted the right to | | | | in those brutish conditions of work, in those |
| nudity, I was demoting the right to theft, and that | | | | ceaseless hours, making us produce their wealth. "But |
| there was no intrinsic way to justify one without | | | | we should have the liberty to sell and buy as we |
| justifying the other. By justifying one or the other, I | | | | wish! It doesn't matter if 99% of the world is |
| meant justifying them on the basis of Libertarianism, | | | | relegated to misery, poverty, and want! It is our |
| which is "to promote liberty." I believed in the | | | | liberty!" So the Libertarian may argue. But |
| freedom of opinion, in the right of a person to do as | | | | Libertarianism isn't about individual thought, but |
| they wished, without interference to others. The | | | | individual rights, and if that means the subjection of |
| basic conception of liberty that I had was that a man | | | | woman to man, of african to white, or even of |
| can do as he wishes, as long as he does not impact | | | | worker to employer, then it will confess to such |
| on the liberty of others. Of course, this left a great | | | | monstrous cruelties... It is the job of every |
| deal of questions unanswered. I believed in person | | | | Humanitarian to oppose the Capitalist system. |
| and individual liberty. Anything to impose upon this, | | | | Life,Punkerslut (or Andy Carloff) has been writing |
| whether it stemmed from religious or moral bias, | | | | essays and poetry on social issues which have |
| ought to be disallowed. If a man wanted to dress up | | | | caught his attention for several years. His website |
| like a woman, wearing a dress with an image of a | | | | provides a complete list of all of these writings. His |
| man burning an American flag, while walking down the | | | | life experience includes homelessness, squating in |
| street advertising free sexual acts -- if a man | | | | New Orleans and LA, dropping out of high school, |
| wanted to do this, it is his right to do this, just as it is | | | | getting expelled from college for "subversive |
| a man's right to walk down the street, dressed | | | | activities," and a myriad of other revolutionary |
| normally, keeping completely quiet and to himself.But | | | | actions. |