On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 16:47, Eugene Coyle <[email protected]> wrote: > Pro business libertarians are right wing. Why? > Anarchist libertarians are left wing. Why >
Doesn't it have to do with their position on private property and economic justice (as well as things like race and immigration)? Anarchists aren't generally supportive of it since, well, it requires a state to enforce it. I'm not sure what an anarchist libertarian means except to make one of the terms redundant. Pro-business libertarians usually base their use of the state to defend private property on arguments of natural law or some such thing. In any case, they just want the nightwatchman, negative liberty, etc. And most of them are evidently also completely ignorant of the rich literature written about the way that positive and negative liberty are ultimately distinctions without a difference. I think there is also a strain of anarchist libertarians who might act as if they are all about "self organization" without the state, but then somehow find entrepreneurs as the preeminent example of "self organizers." There are a few folks at GMU (in the econ and law depts) who ascribe to this kind of ideology. They are basically the pro-business libertarians, but act as if they are anarchist libertarians who just happen to support businesses. s _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
