Difference between revisions of "Introduction To Libertarianism"
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* Ownership of the vast majority of the world's wealth by plutocrats is legitimate and untouchable. | * Ownership of the vast majority of the world's wealth by plutocrats is legitimate and untouchable. | ||
* Changing that distribution will result in assorted horrors for everybody, including loss of liberty and freedom. | * Changing that distribution will result in assorted horrors for everybody, including loss of liberty and freedom. | ||
| − | The plutocrats objective is political change to get more wealth and prevent losing any wealth to taxation or other liabilities. | + | The plutocrats objective is political change to get more wealth and prevent losing any wealth to taxation or other liabilities. This is part of a process of [[Privatization of Power|privatization of power]] through [[Crony Capitalism|crony capitalism]] and massive deregulation. |
Political libertarianism is dominated by [[Public Relations|public relations]] programs that have been around since at least the 1930's, reacting to [[Progressivism]]. The [[Mount Pelerin Society]] in the 1950's catalyzed a great expansion of these programs. The [[Charles and David Koch|Koch brothers]] have largely organized or controlled the libertarian public relations programs, and they scored their first big successes in the 1980's under Reagan. Without the hundreds of millions of dollars pumped into public relations programs, right-wing political libertarianism would be just another fringe political belief as small as left-libertarianism. | Political libertarianism is dominated by [[Public Relations|public relations]] programs that have been around since at least the 1930's, reacting to [[Progressivism]]. The [[Mount Pelerin Society]] in the 1950's catalyzed a great expansion of these programs. The [[Charles and David Koch|Koch brothers]] have largely organized or controlled the libertarian public relations programs, and they scored their first big successes in the 1980's under Reagan. Without the hundreds of millions of dollars pumped into public relations programs, right-wing political libertarianism would be just another fringe political belief as small as left-libertarianism. | ||
