Monday, September 5, 2016

Why Left Libertarianism?

Welcome to the Blue Corn Maze, a Left Libertarian Hub.

A few words about why I would call literally anything a "blue corn maze":

Libertarianism, a revolutionary philosophy of redistributing power generally, is today mainly associated with the Right Wing of American politics. Others still believe that libertarianism is a "third path" from left and right and has nothing to do with those concepts.

This is wrong-headed and ahistorical. Libertarianism grew out of classical liberalism, which is properly viewed as belonging to the left. The core concept that libertarianism rests, liberalism, is liberatory by nature. Conscripting with theocratic restrictions on the right is illiberal and anti-thetical.

And so it was long ago, in the time before the rise of conspiratorial state socialism. The implementation of the Communism/Capitalism dichotomy thrust allies of individual freedom to the right wing. They could not rely on the left of the 20th century as they were too busy building bureaucratic behemoths and obsessing over what Orwell called the "stupid cult of Russia".

The Origin Heroes and Heroines of Liberalism, the ur-myths that built the libertarianism we know have been forgotten. Gone is Kropotkin, de Cleyre, and Spooner. They understood that libertarianism is a socialist idea, because it seeks for the social sphere to encompass most or all of society.

This essential knowledge has been obscured, bought out, and buried. As such we as libertarians find ourselves in a corn maze- lost. By seeing this maze as Blue, we will see the exit and begin again to repair this broken world.

Until we reestablish our context, the primary enemy of libertarianism is not any state or opposing ideology, it is libertarianism itself.

We must break from toxic language and terms like "capitalism", and remember who we truly are.

Though Mises, Hayek, and Rothbard worked very hard to build the movement we have and without question it wouldn't exist without them and many others, libertarianism has become decayed and shriveled over time. Deprived of it's mother-home, of it's source, our ideas have become hollow and meaningless. A libertarianism that is thin and not thick is flimsy and useless.

If this seems shocking to you, don't be too surprised. A hundred plus years of sophistry and confusion have muddied these waters. Markets Not Capitalism will elucidate all these concepts, though I will write further about them as well.

A libertarianism worth furthering always expands options, individual agency, and personal freedom.

Let us now all take hands. Radical, moderate, minarchist, anarchist; these distinctions while useful are less important than working together under a common context. Let us all walk free of this maze and liberate this sick world.  

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