There's a libertarian blog, "lowercase liberty," out there, run by a guy who calls himself "BK Marcus" (I'm guessing after some capitalist economist or other libertarian hero.) that I found while searching around the World Wide Net for resources on anarchism, which has many progressive values, including eco-sustainability and concerns about the poor and the climate. But somehow I ended up at this capitalist blog when any anarchist will tell you that it is a leftist, democratic, progressive movement, not a rightwing agenda only concerned with letting CEOs have as much money as possible.
"BK Marcus's" blog has a hilarious post about the newest effort to sell us citizens inequality in the guise of "freedom" and take away our democracy with nothing to offer us n return. Some of his capitalist "sock puppets" will have none of it, but I posted a scathing attack on these people that I thought would be worth sharing to my readers.
The problem with Bob Murphy and all who agree with him in this extreme apologism for corporate America is the lack of undertanding how powerful big business is and how a "free market" of survival of the fittest is a dream. We are not all atomistic individuals. If you worship money, you lose sight of love and the need to be a good person.
What about the Great Depression? Laissez faire sure didn't stop the Stock Market Crash. What about that dirty little capitalist secret: Slavery. You never hear libertarians address that paradox.
In a free market, the homeless would have no homes. Without minimum wage, we'd all be working for a penny an hour while the CEOS pocketed the rest. We'd be priced out of the market for food and medicine, as the rich people bought everything up at prices only they could afford.
You guys talk about free trade, but for many poor people, free trade means the IMF foreclosing on their lives. It means being owned by U.S. multinational corporate power. How can you support this and call it "free"?
America used to have a free market. There was slavery and dirty meat and snake oil being sold as medicine. Then we had the New Deal and the War on Poverty (which Reagan ended), just a little common-sense government to round out the rough edges of capitalism.
The real irony is, for how much you libertarians want to protect the interests of the rich capitalist class, I bet they prefer having some economic stability provided by the democratic government, too.
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