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<tbody><tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; text-align:center; color:White; background-color:#1E90FF"><b>Oh no, they're talking about</b><br /><a href="/wiki/Politics" title="Politics"><font size="4" color="White"><b>Politics</b></font></a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#97DEFF;" align="center"><a href="/wiki/Category:Politics" title="Category:Politics"><img alt="Icon politics.svg" src="/w/images/thumb/f/f2/Icon_politics.svg/100px-Icon_politics.svg.png" decoding="async" width="100" height="100" srcset="/w/images/thumb/f/f2/Icon_politics.svg/150px-Icon_politics.svg.png 1.5x, /w/images/thumb/f/f2/Icon_politics.svg/200px-Icon_politics.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="200" data-file-height="200" /></a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; color:White; background-color:#1E90FF; text-align:center;"><b>Theory</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; background-color:#97DEFF;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Political_spectrum" title="Political spectrum">Political spectrum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Political_party" title="Political party">Political party</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Government" title="Government">Government</a> (<a href="/wiki/List_of_forms_of_government" title="List of forms of government">forms of</a>)</li></ul> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; color:White; background-color:#1E90FF; text-align:center;"><b>Practice</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; background-color:#97DEFF;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/International_relations" title="International relations">International relations</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Propaganda" title="Propaganda">Propaganda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/War" title="War">War</a></li></ul> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; color:White; background-color:#1E90FF; text-align:center;"><b><a href="/wiki/Political_philosophy" title="Political philosophy"><font color="white">Philosophies</font></a></b> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; background-color:#97DEFF;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Totalitarianism" title="Totalitarianism">Totalitarianism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Separation_of_church_and_state" title="Separation of church and state">Separation of church and state</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/V%C3%B6lkisch_movement" title="Völkisch movement">Völkisch movement</a></li></ul> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; color:White; background-color:#1E90FF; text-align:center;"><b><a href="/wiki/Category:Political_terms" title="Category:Political terms"><font color="white">Terms</font></a></b> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; background-color:#97DEFF;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bigotry" title="Bigotry">Bigotry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bourgeois_pseudoscience" title="Bourgeois pseudoscience">Bourgeois pseudoscience</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Liberty" title="Liberty">Liberty</a></li></ul> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; color:White; background-color:#1E90FF; text-align:center;"><b>As usual</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; background-color:#97DEFF;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kangaroo_court" title="Kangaroo court">Kangaroo court</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Proportional_representation" title="Proportional representation">Proportional representation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2017_German_federal_elections" title="2017 German federal elections">2017 German federal elections</a></li></ul> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; color:White; background-color:#1E90FF; text-align:center;"><b>Country sections</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; background-color:#97DEFF;"> <center><a href="/wiki/Category:United_States_politics" title="Category:United States politics"><img alt="United States politics" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png" decoding="async" width="35" height="18" 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href="https://rationalwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Politics&action=edit">e</a></div> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div role="note" class="hatnote">No, this isn't about Libertarians <a href="/wiki/No_Cussing_Club" title="No Cussing Club">cussing</a>.</div> <table style="margin: auto; border-collapse:collapse; border-style:none; background-color:transparent;" class="cquote"> <tbody><tr> <td><div style="padding:4px 50px;position:relative;"><span style="position:absolute;left:10px;top:-6px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">“</span><span style="position:absolute;right:10px;bottom:-20px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">”</span>The modern <a href="/wiki/Conservative" class="mw-redirect" title="Conservative">conservative</a> is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.</div> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="padding:4px 10px 8px;font-size:smaller;line-height:1.6em;text-align:right;"><cite style="font-style:normal;position:relative;z-index:2">—<a href="/wiki/John_Kenneth_Galbraith" title="John Kenneth Galbraith">John Kenneth Galbraith</a></cite> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Vulgar libertarianism</b> (otherwise known as "LOLbertarians", "brogressives", or "glibertarians") is a term used to refer to <a href="/wiki/Libertarianism" title="Libertarianism">libertarians</a> who approach that political philosophy with an altogether cynical attitude<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a></sup> or more generally as a term that describes libertarians who exist for the purpose of justifying unfair socio-economic hierarchies using appeals to laissez-faire capitalist and socially liberal ideology. The term was coined by the "<a href="/wiki/Free_market" title="Free market">free market</a> anti-<a href="/wiki/Capitalist" class="mw-redirect" title="Capitalist">capitalist</a>" blogger Kevin Carson as an analogue to 'vulgar Marxism'. </p> <div id="toc" class="toc" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="mw-toc-heading"><input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="display:none" /><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr"><h2 id="mw-toc-heading">Contents</h2><span class="toctogglespan"><label class="toctogglelabel" for="toctogglecheckbox"></label></span></div> <ul> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#Kevin_Carson_on_vulgar_libertarians"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Kevin Carson on vulgar libertarians</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="#Anti-authority_posturing"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Anti-authority posturing</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3"><a href="#Libertarians_as_corporate_mouthpieces"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Libertarians as corporate mouthpieces</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4"><a href="#Vulgar_libertarianism_vs._Beltway_libertarianism"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">Vulgar libertarianism vs. Beltway libertarianism</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5"><a href="#See_also"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">See also</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6"><a href="#External_links"><span class="tocnumber">6</span> <span class="toctext">External links</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7"><a href="#Notes"><span class="tocnumber">7</span> <span class="toctext">Notes</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8"><a href="#References"><span class="tocnumber">8</span> <span class="toctext">References</span></a></li> </ul> </div> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Kevin_Carson_on_vulgar_libertarians">Kevin Carson on vulgar libertarians</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Vulgar_libertarianism&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Kevin Carson on vulgar libertarians">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <p>In <a href="/wiki/Georgism" title="Georgism">georgist</a> tradition, vulgar libertarians are known as <b>royal libertarians</b>, a term coined by Dan Sullivan.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2">[2]</a></sup> </p> <blockquote class="letter" style="width:auto; background:#f8f8ff; border:1px solid #C9C9CF;"> <p>Vulgar libertarian apologists for capitalism use the term "free market" in an equivocal sense: <a href="/wiki/Motte_and_bailey" title="Motte and bailey">they seem to have trouble remembering, from one moment to the next</a>, whether they’re defending actually existing capitalism or free market principles. So we get the standard boilerplate article arguing that the rich can’t get rich at the expense of the <a href="/wiki/Poor" class="mw-redirect" title="Poor">poor</a>, because "that’s not how the free market works" — implicitly assuming that this is a free market. When prodded, they’ll grudgingly admit that the present system is not a free market, and that it includes a lot of state intervention on behalf of the rich. But as soon as they think they can get away with it, they go right back to defending the wealth of existing <a href="/wiki/Corporation" title="Corporation">corporations</a> on the basis of "free market principles." </p> </blockquote> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Anti-authority_posturing">Anti-authority posturing</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Vulgar_libertarianism&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Anti-authority posturing">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <div role="note" class="hatnote">See the main article on this topic: <a href="/wiki/Reaganism" title="Reaganism">Reaganism</a></div> <table style="margin: auto; border-collapse:collapse; border-style:none; background-color:transparent;" class="cquote"> <tbody><tr> <td><div style="padding:4px 50px;position:relative;"><span style="position:absolute;left:10px;top:-6px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">“</span><span style="position:absolute;right:10px;bottom:-20px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">”</span>I am an aristocrat. I love liberty, I hate equality.</div> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="padding:4px 10px 8px;font-size:smaller;line-height:1.6em;text-align:right;"><cite style="font-style:normal;position:relative;z-index:2">—John Randolph of Roanoke</cite> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>Hard-libertarians and <a href="/wiki/Objectivism" title="Objectivism">Randians</a> gild themselves as <a href="/wiki/Enlightenment" class="mw-redirect" title="Enlightenment">enlightened</a> individuals most in tune with reason, when in reality, <a href="/wiki/Bullshit" title="Bullshit">they are so full of shit</a> it's leaking out of their ears: No matter how much they pretend to care about scientific evidence, '<a href="/wiki/Homo_economicus" title="Homo economicus">moral clarity</a>', etc. they're somehow perfectly willing to believe in the fantastical myths of limitless growth and limitless profit, that history needs to somehow stop in its tracks and move backwards to move forwards<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3">[3]</a></sup> i.e. eliminate everything that's been gained with democratic government, placing all of the power into the hands of a few transcendent <a href="/wiki/John_Galt" class="mw-redirect" title="John Galt">John Galt</a> supermen, creating a situation that, in reality, would probably be akin to the inhuman power structures of ancient <a href="/wiki/Egypt" title="Egypt">Egypt</a>, or <a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Putin" title="Vladimir Putin">Putin's</a> Russia that they pretend to hate but likely <a href="/wiki/Horseshoe_theory" title="Horseshoe theory">envy</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4">[4]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5">[5]</a></sup> They see no problem at all in letting advertisers use whatever tricks they can think of to hoodwink the public (<a href="/wiki/Fear,_uncertainty,_and_doubt" title="Fear, uncertainty, and doubt">fostering public irrationality</a> is perfectly fine so long as it's only fucking things up for 99.9999% of the population). </p><p>Anti-authority posturing is used to argue against pure democracy, but then they kick away the ladder to create a pure authoritarian society. Just going with the main spokespeople—and leaving out dumb individual comments made by <a href="/wiki/Stefan_Molyneux" title="Stefan Molyneux">Stefan Molyneux</a> and other YouTube quacks—you will find: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Murray_Rothbard" title="Murray Rothbard">Rothbard</a> and <a href="/wiki/Hans-Hermann_Hoppe" title="Hans-Hermann Hoppe">Hoppe</a> on restrictive covenants that would permit communities keeping all the "riffraff" out and govern people's lives in a very authoritarian manner.</li> <li>Hoppe on the joys of <a href="/wiki/Feudalism" title="Feudalism">feudalism</a>, arguing medieval-style <a href="/wiki/Monarchy" title="Monarchy">monarchy</a> would be the next best thing to anarcho-capitalism.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Walter_Block" title="Walter Block">Walter Block</a> on <a href="/wiki/Slavery" title="Slavery">slavery</a> contracts and religious <a href="/wiki/Theocracy" title="Theocracy">theocracy</a> being compatible with anarcho-capitalism.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6">[6]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7">[7]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8">[8]</a></sup> Legitimately a lot of right-wing turnaround on market fundamentalism is just realizing the resultant covenant communities aren't <a href="/wiki/Racist" class="mw-redirect" title="Racist">racist</a> enough.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gary_North" title="Gary North">Gary North</a> on theocracy and stoning people to death.</li> <li>Rothbard's quote on "unleashing the cops" to administer instant justice.<sup id="cite_ref-rothbard_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rothbard-9">[9]</a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lew_Rockwell" title="Lew Rockwell">Lew Rockwell</a> constantly shilling for Russia and <a href="/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump">Trump</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ludwig_von_Mises_Institute" title="Ludwig von Mises Institute">Mises Institute's</a> support for the <a href="/wiki/Lost_Cause_of_the_South" title="Lost Cause of the South">Confederacy</a>. Also, the general belief that World War II and the American Civil War were acts of "meddling" and unjustified.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10">[10]</a></sup></li> <li>Bryan Caplan and <a href="/wiki/Charter_city" title="Charter city">"charter cities"</a>, which he believes could be run by <a href="/wiki/Plutocracy" title="Plutocracy">technocratic corporations</a>. Basically IRL Delta City from <i>RoboCop</i>. Though it could theoretically be run by a foreign government within the borders of a poorer country. (Which is still authoritarian, since they have no accountability to the people in those countries.)<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11">[11]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12">[12]</a></sup></li> <li>Rothbard and Hoppe's hatred of what they call <a href="/wiki/No_True_Scotsman" title="No True Scotsman">"nihlo-libertarians"</a>: libertarians who are "hedonistic" and <i>laissez faire</i>, instead of socially conservative and willing to sacrifice everything for the preservation of property. Block's views are similar, being contemptuous toward what he calls "libertines" and proposing "libertarian" solutions of discriminating against them all until they cease to exist.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Augusto_Pinochet" title="Augusto Pinochet">Pinochet</a>. If not for <a href="/wiki/Friedrich_August_von_Hayek" class="mw-redirect" title="Friedrich August von Hayek">Hayek</a> and his <a href="/wiki/Chicago_School" class="mw-redirect" title="Chicago School">Chicago School</a> hacks, he'd be another dimly-remembered bloody dictator. Pinochet went away, and the Chilean people voted in another left-wing party; only 9% remember the military coup with fondness. Libertarian goals have to be reached with libertarian means.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13">[13]</a></sup></li></ul> <p>Those are just some of the greatest hits. But much of the authoritarianism comes from things these authors don't talk about. Like the tremendous amount of power gained from privately-owned roadways,<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14">[14]</a></sup> or how children would have no independent income, <i>ergo</i> no human rights.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15">[15]</a></sup> Within one or two generations, there would be no possibility of voluntarism in those societies. </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Libertarians_as_corporate_mouthpieces">Libertarians as corporate mouthpieces</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Vulgar_libertarianism&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Libertarians as corporate mouthpieces">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <p>Vulgar libertarians are those who focus on those parts of a free-market policy that most benefit big business, such as: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Privatization" title="Privatization">Privatization</a> of land and commons</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deregulation" title="Deregulation">Deregulation</a> - A grey area. Food trucks, for instance, whose only crime is competing with brick-and-mortar restaurants would certainly benefit.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16">[16]</a></sup></li> <li>Corporate <a href="/wiki/Tax_cut" title="Tax cut">tax cuts</a> - US tax law has a 'bubble' in its corporate tax rate that a small business will notice, but the <a href="/wiki/Wal-Mart" class="mw-redirect" title="Wal-Mart">Walton family</a> can avoid without incident.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anti-environmentalism" title="Anti-environmentalism">Anti-environmental</a> policies, including <a href="/wiki/Global_warming" class="mw-redirect" title="Global warming">global warming</a> <a href="/wiki/Denialism" title="Denialism">denialism</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Free_Trade" class="mw-redirect" title="Free Trade">Free Trade</a> - Admittedly, it's a boon for businesses that couldn't exist under the old regimes (which enforced tighter regulation as well as trade restrictions), e.g. microdistilleries.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17">[17]</a></sup></li> <li>Liberventionism - <a href="/wiki/Neoconservatism" title="Neoconservatism">Regime change</a>, conducted by the U.S. military, all in the name of liberation.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18">[18]</a></sup> And buckets of aid to <a href="/wiki/Israel" title="Israel">Israel</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Saudi_Arabia" title="Saudi Arabia">Saudis</a> "to fight <a href="/wiki/ISIS" class="mw-redirect" title="ISIS">ISIS</a>", as well.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19">[19]</a></sup></li></ul> <p>...while ignoring other parts that would most benefit individuals and small businesses, such as: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Civil_liberties" class="mw-redirect" title="Civil liberties">Civil liberties</a> - <a href="/wiki/NSA" title="NSA">NSA</a>, <a href="/wiki/Department_of_Homeland_Security" class="mw-redirect" title="Department of Homeland Security">Homeland Security</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20">[20]</a></sup> and DEA<sup id="cite_ref-rothbard_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rothbard-9">[9]</a></sup> will each have a place in Libertopia. Also, I am all for gay rights and interracial marriage, just don't expect me to bake a cake for you.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21">[21]</a></sup></li> <li>Legalization of <a href="/wiki/Drug" title="Drug">drugs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Meritocracy" title="Meritocracy">Meritocracy</a> - Many libertarians deny the <a href="/wiki/Gender_pay_gap" title="Gender pay gap">wage gap</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22">[22]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23">[23]</a></sup> It's the same with race: If you believe the world is a meritocracy and are presented with racial income disparity you either revise your views or come to the conclusion that <a href="/wiki/Racialism" title="Racialism">black people are inferior.</a><sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24">[24]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25">[25]</a></sup></li> <li>Open borders - brown people asking to exist is a threat to liberty.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26">[26]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27">[27]</a></sup></li> <li>Tax reform - closing loopholes exploited by big business.</li> <li>Eliminating corporate welfare - unless it's going to corporations funding your <a href="/wiki/Think_tank" title="Think tank">think tank</a>..</li></ul> <p>Nor ought you expect them ever to question <a href="/wiki/Corporate_personhood" title="Corporate personhood">the very existence of limited-liability corporations</a>, which depends on the State's refusal to use or authorise force to collect some debts incurred by some actual persons but not others. Nor do they object to <a href="/wiki/Right-to-work_law" title="Right-to-work law">the State's interference with freedom to make contract</a> when it increases employers' power. (Though they believe in personal responsibility, there is no contradiction because they say there isn't.) A few exceptions exist, for instance the Libertarian Party USA officially opposes right-to-work, but they negate this by (naturally) saying employers should be able to refuse recognition of unions and of course fire any worker who joins them. Many US states already permit employment contracts having "no union" clauses to this effect. Those who do oppose corporate status negate it by the fact that they would strip all regulations on these businesses otherwise, leaving them much more powerful even without this. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Steve_Milloy" title="Steve Milloy">Steve Milloy</a>, formerly of the <a href="/wiki/Cato_Institute" title="Cato Institute">Cato Institute</a>, now of <a href="/wiki/Fox_News" title="Fox News">Fox News</a>, is a vulgar libertarian, in that his primary interest is in <a href="/wiki/Denialism" title="Denialism">denial</a> of <a href="/wiki/Science" title="Science">scientific</a> developments that might suggest a need for new regulations, such as <a href="/wiki/Global_warming" class="mw-redirect" title="Global warming">global warming</a> research and the dangers of <a href="/wiki/Tobacco_smoking" title="Tobacco smoking">tobacco smoking</a>. </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Vulgar_libertarianism_vs._Beltway_libertarianism">Vulgar libertarianism vs. Beltway libertarianism</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Vulgar_libertarianism&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Vulgar libertarianism vs. Beltway libertarianism">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <p>"Vulgar libertarianism" is somewhat similar to the insult of "Beltway Libertarianism" leveled at such think tanks as the <a href="/wiki/Cato_Institute" title="Cato Institute">Cato Institute</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Reason_(magazine)" title="Reason (magazine)">Reason</a> Foundation. Carson has accused some of these institutions of vulgar libertarianism; this might be expected, since (1) these think tanks are being funded by those noted beneficiaries of libertarian<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28">[note 1]</a></sup> policies, <a href="/wiki/Koch_Industries" title="Koch Industries">Koch Industries</a> and <a href="/wiki/Oil" title="Oil">oil</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tobacco" class="mw-redirect" title="Tobacco">tobacco</a>, and other corporate interests<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29">[28]</a></sup> and (2) Carson is being funded by that noted beneficiary of non-libertarian policies, the health care industry.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30">[29]</a></sup> </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="See_also">See also</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Vulgar_libertarianism&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: See also">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Plutonomy" class="mw-redirect" title="Plutonomy">Plutonomy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reddit" title="Reddit">r/Libertarian</a> - Everything is slavery and rape, except slavery and rape which aren't all that bad.</li></ul> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="External_links">External links</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Vulgar_libertarianism&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: External links">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://mutualist.blogspot.com/2005/01/vulgar-libertarianism-watch-part-1.html">Vulgar Libertarianism</a> at Kevin Carson's blog</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cato-unbound.org/archives/november-2008-when-corporations-hate-markets/">Debate at Cato Unbound</a> over libertarianism vs. corporatism.</li></ul> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Notes">Notes</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Vulgar_libertarianism&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Notes">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <div class="references-small" style="font-size:90%;"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-28"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-28">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"> Or rather selectively libertarian economic policies benefitting large <a href="/wiki/Corporation" title="Corporation">corporations</a>.</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="References">References</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Vulgar_libertarianism&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: References">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <div class="references-small" style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; font-size:90%;"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-1">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Noam_Chomsky" title="Noam Chomsky">Chomsky</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.distantocean.com/2008/04/chomsky-on-libe.html">on</a> American libertarianism vs. classical libertarianism</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-2">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Sullivan, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://geolib.com/essays/sullivan.dan/royallib.html">Are You A Real Libertarian? Or, a ROYAL Libertarian?</a> </span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-3">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Chris Bertram, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://crookedtimber.org/2012/07/01/let-it-bleed-libertarianism-and-the-workplace/">"Let It Bleed: Libertarians and the Workplace"</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-4">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Roman Skaskiw, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://dailyanarchist.com/2014/04/10/putins-libertarians/">"Putin's Libertarians"</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-5">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Austin Petersen, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://thelibertarianrepublic.com/whats-confused-pro-putin-libertarians/">"When Do Libertarians Support Military Invasions? Apparently When Russia Does It."</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-6">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Block, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://mises.org/library/toward-libertarian-theory-inalienability-critique-rothbard-barnett-smith-kinsella-gordon-and">"Towards a Libertarian Theory of Inalienability: A Critique of Rothbard, Barnett, Smith, Kinsella, Gordon, and Epstein."</a> pp. 39–85, <i>Journal of Libertarian Studies</i>, vol. 17, no. 2, Spring 2003, p. 44, p. 48, p. 82 and p. 46.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-7">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipXlhWZfWms">Block: Slavery Is Better Than Welfare For Black Communities</a>, <a href="/wiki/RT" title="RT">RT</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-8">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Block, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/voluntary-sharia-law-totalitarianism/">"Voluntary Sharia Law, Totalitarianism"</a>, LewRockwell.com (10/12/16 at 2:33 am).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-rothbard-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">↑ <sup><a href="#cite_ref-rothbard_9-0">9.0</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-rothbard_9-1">9.1</a></sup></span> <span class="reference-text">Rothbard, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/697923/posts">"Right-wing populism"</a> (1992) via FreeRepublic.com</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-10">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Holly, Mike, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://mises.org/library/long-history-government-meddling-american-marketplace">"The Long History of Government Meddling in the American Marketplace"</a>, LvMI 2.29.16.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-11">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Caplan, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2011/03/a_quick_case_fo.html">"A Quick Case for Charter Cities: Memo to the Gates Foundation"</a>, Library of Economics and Liberty 5.22.11.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-12">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Bowman, Sam, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/The-Adam-Smith-Institute-Blog/2011/0325/Could-charter-cities-help-poor-countries-blossom">"Could 'charter cities' help poor countries blossom?"</a>, <i>Christian Science Monitor</i> 3.5.11.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-13">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">O'Brien, Rosalba, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.reuters.com/article/us-chile-pinochet-idUSBRE98705J20130908">"Forty years after coup, Pinochet again divides Chile"</a>, Reuters (9/8/13 at 7:02am EDT).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-14">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Michael Bustillo and Nathan Koppel, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/in-texas-toll-roads-proliferateand-a-backlash-builds-1413823849">"In Texas, Toll Roads Proliferate—and a Backlash Builds"</a>, <a href="/wiki/WSJ" class="mw-redirect" title="WSJ">WSJ</a> (Updated 10/20/14 at 2:25 p.m. ET).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-15">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Bruenig, Elizabeth, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://newrepublic.com/article/120965/rand-paul-libertarians-have-long-had-horrifying-view-parenting">"Libertarians Have a History of Horrifying Views on Parenting"</a>, New Republic 2.4.15.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-16">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Shackford, Scott, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://reason.com/blog/2013/06/21/anti-food-truck-meddling-ends-up-ruining">"Anti-Food Truck Meddling Ends Up Ruining Miami Farmer’s Market"</a>, <i>Reason</i> (7/21/13 at 5:17 pm).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-17">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Risen, Clay, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/16/dining/american-malted-whiskeys-win-acclaim.html?_r=0">"American Single-Malt Whiskeys Serve Notice"</a>, <a href="/wiki/NYT" class="mw-redirect" title="NYT">NYT</a> 1.15.13.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-18">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Jon Lee Andersen, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/02/23/unravelling">"The Unraveling"</a>, <i>The New Yorker.</i> Bernard-Henri Lévy, when asked why he supported the intervention in <a href="/wiki/Libya" title="Libya">Libya</a>, says, “I don’t know! Of course, it was human rights, for a massacre to be prevented, and blah blah blah…”<sup>[<i>No, not <a href="/wiki/The_Onion" title="The Onion">The Onion</a></i>]</sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-19">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Alexander LeCasse, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2015/0111/With-eye-on-2016-Rand-Paul-tries-to-block-US-aid-to-Palestinians">"With eye on 2016, Rand Paul tries to block US aid to Palestinians"</a>, <i>Christian Science Monitor.</i></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-20">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/John_Stossel" title="John Stossel">John Stossel</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://reason.com/archives/2013/06/12/why-libertarians-have-better-things-to-w">"I just can't get that worked up about it"</a>, <i>Reason</i> 6.12.13.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-21">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Shackford, Scott, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://reason.com/archives/2014/08/19/libertarians-gay-marriage-and-freedom">"Libertarians, Gay Marriage, and Freedom of Association: A Primer"</a>, <i>Reason</i> 8.19.14.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-22">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Chapman, Steve, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://reason.com/archives/2010/08/19/the-truth-about-the-pay-gap">"The Truth About the Pay Gap"</a>, <i>Reason</i> 9.19.10.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-23"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-23">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Rachael Grezler and James Sherk, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2014/05/equal-pay-for-equal-work-examining-the-gender-gap">"Equal Pay for Equal Work: Examining the Gender Gap"</a>, <i>Issue Brief #4227 on Labor</i>. 5.22.14. Even the <a href="/wiki/Heritage_Foundation" class="mw-redirect" title="Heritage Foundation">Heritage Foundation</a>, after attempting to deflate the gap as much as possible, still admits a 5 cent gap.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-24">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Cavanaugh, Jeffrey, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.mintpressnews.com/ferguson-reveals-racists-libertarian-clothing/195788/">"Ferguson Reveals Racists In Libertarian Clothing"</a>, Mint Press News. 8.25.14.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-25"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-25">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Rockwell Jr., Llywellyn H., <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://articles.latimes.com/1991-03-10/opinion/op-178_1_safe-streets/">on Rodney King</a>, <i>L.A. Times</i> 3.10.91. <b>Lewser</b>: "But street criminals, as economist <a href="/wiki/Murray_Rothbard" title="Murray Rothbard">Murray N. Rothbard</a> points out, have the time preference of depraved infants. The prospect of a jail sentence 12 months from now has virtually no effect."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-26"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-26">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><b><a href="/wiki/Ron_Paul" title="Ron Paul">Ron Paul</a></b>: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T-iJKwskH4">The sole function of a libertarian government would be to keep dark people out!</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-27"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-27">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Feeney, Matthew, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://reason.com/archives/2014/02/13/supposed-pro-freedom-parties-make-except">"'Pro-Freedom' Parties That Aren't on Immigration"</a>, <i>Reason</i> 2.13.14. You know your philosophy's on life support when all of the Libertarian parties in Europe are protectionist.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-29"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-29">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">David Koch was a co-founder of Cato. 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