Comment by nickpp
2 days ago
I've seen mainstream "socialists" (Obama, Sanders, countless Europeans) embracing and sustaining authoritarian communist thugs like Chavez, so...
We've seen here in EU socialist policies cripple our economy to the point we're lagging the USA and we can't even defend ourselves from the blood-hungry psychopath in the east.
> libertarian socialism
Is this a real thing? Any examples of being implemented anywhere? Cause it sounds like a oxymoron to me. Socialism means regulations and confiscation from the productive members of society (taxation). Those must be enforced with the threat of force so less liberty there...
> no one deserves to be able to force you to do things
So I shouldn't be forced to pay my taxes? How would then a socialist government implement its expensive social policies?!
> Is this a real thing? Any examples of being implemented anywhere? Cause it sounds like a oxymoron to me.
Let me catch you up on 150 years of capitalist alternative, theory, critique, and analysis, that answers every single snarky little "gotcha" remark you have: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/the-anarchist-faq-ed...
I'm not going to spoon-feed you anymore because you're clearly not interested in a conversation, and are quite happy with the status quo. I hope for your sake you don't end up on the wrong side of capitalism.