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More about corporate libertarianism. April 9, 2012 4:23 am ER

http://unintentional-irony.blogspot.com/2008/02/corporate-libertarians.html

Anyone can call themselves a libertarian. Still, the most annoying ones are those who fail to understand that the limited liability corporation is a profoundly privileged beast, one whose existence weakens such things as the individual right-to-contract, and individual property rights in general. I will stipulate at the outset that I think the corporation is a very powerful and useful invention, but it does require certain sorts of regulation if it isn’t to seriously harm individual rights, and often corporate libertarians seem more interested in eliminating those essential regulations than upholding the underlying individual rights.

Google the term, for one that’s “undefined” it’s all over the net. You may also have heard of it referred to as “vulgar libertarianism”.

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Vulgar_libertarianism

Vulgar libertarian apologists for capitalism use the term “free market” in an equivocal sense: they seem to have trouble remembering, from one moment to the next, whether they’re defending actually existing capitalism or free market principles. So we get the standard boilerplate article arguing that the rich can’t get rich at the expense of the poor, because “that’s not how the free market works” — implicitly assuming that this is a free market. When prodded, they’ll grudgingly admit that the present system is not a free market, and that it includes a lot of state intervention on behalf of the rich. But as soon as they think they can get away with it, they go right back to defending the wealth of existing corporations on the basis of “free market principles.

  • All of these bong fantasies, including Carson's "Mutualism," fail in execution on one simple point: Who decides? by TB 2012-04-09 09:13:04
    • That's very simple, a problem which has been solved many times. Once the standards, values, or goals have been agreed upon ... by bowser 2012-04-09 09:31:29
      • The problem is NOT that free markets are a bad thing. On the contrary, they actually work. The problem is ... by ER 2012-04-09 09:40:28
        • I was once testifying before the Oregon House Ways and Means committee about increasing the budget for the Wage and ... by bowser 2012-04-09 09:52:39
        • "The community." Hall. Thumb. Now. by TB 2012-04-09 09:37:16
          • It's a problem which has been solved many times. by bowser 2012-04-09 09:41:18
            • Name them. Historical, please, not academic papers. by TB 2012-04-09 09:43:36
              • I did. Two different methods. If you don't like the way I did it, try the Constitutions of ... by bowser 2012-04-09 09:56:23
                • In the context of the ideology we're discussing, please. by TB 2012-04-09 10:00:49
        • I must have scored a hit. I see secondary explosions. by ER 2012-04-09 09:29:52
          • We have the recent examples of Enron and WorldCom which debunk the idea a free market is workable in this ... by bowser 2012-04-09 09:39:52
            • You realize you cough up the same two or three examples every time to "prove" that the free market can't work? by TB 2012-04-09 10:08:39
              • Do you realize you've never refuted that? Do you realize that human nature needs to be a factor? ... by bowser 2012-04-09 10:32:16
            • Friend, your shots didn't even hit the same ocean I'm in. by TB 2012-04-09 09:35:44
              • Yeah, who decides? The guy who gets paid a bonus for selling as little as he can for as ... by ER 2012-04-09 09:45:28
                • In the context of the references we were discussing please. by TB 2012-04-09 10:19:48
                  • You want references? by ER 2012-04-09 10:52:57

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