BolivarianHero
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Sat Dec-19-09 05:19 PM
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I know there are anarcho-capitalists and libertarian socialists, but what about centre-libertarians? |
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When I think of a centrist libertarian, I tend to think of people who believe that information and knowledge should be free and universally accessible (i.e. things like open-source software and Wikipedia vs. closed-source software and traditional encyclopedias), that infrastructure should be held in the commons, but that aside from that, the free-market should retain primacy in economic affairs. It's a view I have issues with as a socialist (in that it fails to address important structural inequalities), but to me it represents a maturation of non-leftist libertarian thought beyond the Randroid-Paultard mentality, and comes across as being a mature, sophisticated, pragmatic, and logically defensible stream of political thought in that recognizes the threat that private actors and non-governmental institutions can pose to civil and political liberties and attempts to account for it in the ways in which it views the world.
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ixion
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Sat Dec-19-09 06:10 PM
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1. I'm close to a centre-libertarian, I guess you could say |
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I understand the need for a common infrastructure. I think we could do it on a fraction of what we collect in taxes right now.
I don't think the government should be able to legislate morality beyond violent crime.
I generally think they should stay out of people's lives, unless those people ask for help.
I'd like to reinstate the idea of civil servant, and de-glamourize government. It should not be a career path. It should be something that people take turns doing, and it would be nothing more than facilitation of common infrastructure.
Just my two cents.
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