GEODUDE'S PROFILE

it's MAGNITUDE 10

author=Gale
As for Libertarianism, there aren't many British Libertarians. I am certainly not one of them. I like my National Health Service, comprehensive education and all the other public services that I utilise regularly. I think you'd have to be either very silly or very rich to want to privatise all those things.

libertarianism in its broadest sense doesn't exclude any of these. the problem is that the term has been monopolised by expressly 'right' (in economic terms) groups like the Libertarian Party in the US and as such libertarian socialism and anarcho-syndicalism don't really get a look in. it's a gaping hole in the traditional (but deeply flawed) 'left-right' political dichotomy. a good demonstration of why this doesn't work is to map historical political figures to their respective places in that traditional 'left-right' model. on the left you have stalin, pol pot, nelson mandela, gandhi and the current dalai lama. on the right you have hitler, margaret thatcher, ronald reagan, milton friedman, ayn rand and the republican, democratic and libertarian parties in the US. do you see the problem here? economic and social policies have to be separated as different axes, otherwise it's a useless reading.

basically

edit: nearly forgot

author=Craze
For the record, WIP thinks that it's a terrible idea and a "defiling of his work," so.

lol. he can wait behind me

stop routing! can't take a fair fight ??