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  1. They Live conservatives always try to paint it as a support of abortion. No one likes abortion. It’s about the liberal right to bodily autonomy. It’s telling that religiosity morons believe of pro-choice advocates as bloodthirsty murderers trying to serve a demon via abortions. Religion isn’t the best rebuttal, but the ideal of when life is to be respected in its developing phases is. When should a nascent life be considered developed enough to be protected with rights of their own. That’s the only real question to abortion.
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  2. Susan Bones thank you and same. Ironically in America libertarians advocate for minarchist government. Whereas actual libertarianism is anti-statist and anti-government. Not to mention anti-capitalist. Whether one is for communism or market socialism, libertarianism is socialist.
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  3. Neilson Truong the hell are you talking about? Despite American capitalist attempts to say otherwise libertarianism was always the anarchist branch of socialism. Libertarian and anarchist are synonymous. Anarchists used libertarian more prominently when they were censored for anarchy. One of the earliest uses of the term libertarian is credited to the anarchist communist Joesph DeJacques. Any case you just agreed with what I said. That the only real question to abortion is when is a nascent life developed enough to have rights of their own.
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  4. Susan Bones there is a huge misconception that socialism is anti/markets. No it’s anti-capitalism. Historically socialism developed from classical radical liberalism. Adam Smith advocated for free markets. His successor David Ricardo expanded on the labor theory of value. John Stuart Mill advocated worker cooperatives as the only way for a free society to organize industry. And was against standard wage labor. Thomas Hodgskin would also write works like “Labor Defended Against the Claims of Capital.” Classical liberals were precursory to socialist economics. You should look up the Free Market Anarchists also called Individualist Anarchists. An American strain of Proudhon Mutualism, they are fellow libertarian socialists and perhaps the most radical school of market socialism. Evidently you can be socialist and support free markets. In fact to socialists free markets, truly free markets not capitalism, inevitably lead to a socialist socioeconomics. Or as Individualist Free Market Anarchist Benjamin Tucker put it: “ The economic principles of Modern Socialism are a logical deduction from the principle laid down by Adam Smith in the early chapters of his Wealth of Nations,—namely, that labor is the true measure of price. But Adam Smith, after stating this principle most clearly and concisely, immediately abandoned all further consideration of it to devote himself to showing what actually does measure price, and how, therefore, wealth is at present distributed. Since his day nearly all the political economists have followed his example by confining their function to the description of society as it is, in its industrial and commercial phases. Socialism, on the contrary, extends its function to the description of society as it should be, and the discovery of the means of making it what it should be. Half a century or more after Smith enunciated the principle above stated, Socialism picked it up where he had dropped it, and in following it to its logical conclusions, made it the basis of a new economic philosophy.”
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  5. Neilson Truong yeah you realize that government intervention in economics on behalf of the property owners is what socialists call “capitalism” right? The system we’ve been raging against since the mid-19th century. It’s in the name Capital-ism, the ideology of the property owners. It is the Statist system anarchists and other socialists would like to abolish for either communism (stateless and classless society where the city/township is the only matter of politics and the workers own industry) or market socialism (socialist organization with market distribution system). We don’t like capitalism because it’s statist and sustains itself via an underclass of labor to exploit and concentrations of monopolist private powers. Hence why libertarian socialists aka anarchists are strictly anti-statist, anti-government. Under truly free markets socialism reigns. As Free Market Anarchist Benjamin Tucker said : “The economic principles of Modern Socialism are a logical deduction from the principle laid down by Adam Smith in the early chapters of his Wealth of Nations,—namely, that labor is the true measure of price. But Adam Smith, after stating this principle most clearly and concisely, immediately abandoned all further consideration of it to devote himself to showing what actually does measure price, and how, therefore, wealth is at present distributed. Since his day nearly all the political economists have followed his example by confining their function to the description of society as it is, in its industrial and commercial phases. Socialism, on the contrary, extends its function to the description of society as it should be, and the discovery of the means of making it what it should be. Half a century or more after Smith enunciated the principle above stated, Socialism picked it up where he had dropped it, and in following it to its logical conclusions, made it the basis of a new economic philosophy.”
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  6. Fusionism was always a right wing usurpation of left wing libertarianism. An excuse for capitalism allying with social conservative groups. You reap what you sow, capitalism wins. The GOP sold out to corporate interest a long time ago. Also by the way corporations and capitalists follow the social majority. So when they try to capitalize on progressives social issues it’s a sign that they notice the way society is heading or it’s at.
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  7. Susan Bones That’s cool. As an anarchist I believe in sowing the seeds for a libertarian future I may not see in my lifetime. It’s an ongoing struggle. I agree and you’ll find all anarchists believe in education firsts and foremost. A revolution of the mind is first necessary for a social revolution. Though I don’t agree with your 1984 assessment. Authoritarianism will always seek to encroach on societies where a privileged minority exploit the masses. Fascism came into being before 1984, which was a fictional story warning of the dangers of totalitarianism in it’s forms encroaching in society. It was a critical response to Fascist Europe and Stalinist Statist Socialism. George Orwell was a staunch Democratic Socialist and he fought alongside anarchists in Spain against Fascists. Orwell was against authoritarianism, and a strong supporter of Socialism. Right wingers try to use his works as anti-leftist propaganda, but the historical record shows Orwell was a far leftist and just cause he hated the Soviet Union, didn’t mean he wasn’t Socialist. He believed the Soviets were distorting and tarnishing true Socialism into an authoritarian bureaucratic oligarchy. To him they were false socialists and as much an enemy to Socialism as Fascists.
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