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I think Max Blumenthal (founder of The Grayzone) might be a libertarian (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Many libertarians have the same opinions as us on non-economic foreign policies of the West (seeing through "human rights" claims as hypocrisy to justify war that is waged for resources and geographical control, what coups/assassinations/terrorists are ClA ops, etc.) because these are all state activities and they are anti-state, at least in the current form in the West
Blumenthal's opinions on the situation of vaccines in USA is very libertarian
Clearly not a communist given he has never spoken positively about any AES and never explicitly supported enemies of the West

Yea idk that's all I got lol

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I gotta disagree on some points.

From all the libertarians I've interacted with, I think some communists give libertarians way too much credit. Sure, some of them claim to be anti-war, but not out of genuine concern for those affected or the "good" reasons. Not saying all libertarians are like this, or that libertarians can't eventually become communists, just something to be aware of.

Most libertarians only want to "bring the troops back" so the military can arrest, kidnap, extort and murder brown people and leftists and protect the money and property of the capitalists that libertarians believe they will become one day. Some libertarians I've met are even explicitly pro-war. They only pretend to not be pro-war as long as the government supports a war. As long as capitalists support war, they are all for it.

While probably not explicitly, Max Blumenthal seems to have praised China in how they have handled the COVID-19 pandemic and Xinjiang reeducation facilities.

I used to support Max Blumenthal, and I try not to accuse people for any reason of this, but he's lost my respect for being an anti-vax and a grifter.

Ben Norton on the other hand has my respect.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I think some communists give libertarians way too much credit.

Polish ones are often ancaps, racists and antisemites and many have the weird mix of nazism-ancapism-monarchism taken from Korwin. They are actively working on being as little connected to reality as they can.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

How can someone be a nazi, an ancap, and an monarcuck all at once?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago

No idea what happens in their heads, to average all this, it's mostly the "strong man guarding private property" thing, which often reaches open nazism and monarchism. Do note that the average age of those people is around 16, which would explain that.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Who is Korwin? I feel like jumping into some rabbitholes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Janusz Korwin Mikke, first clown of polish politics, famous for praising Hitler every now and then and getting kicked from several political parties he founded. He also courageously fought against EU by sleeping all the time after being elected to EU Parliament. His career started when during the famous 1980 strike in Gdańsk shipyard he came to tell the workers about the wonders of capitalism - they listened to him and they locked him in shed because they though he is police provocateur. Also a verifable stud, but, very surprising for a libertarian, not a pedophile.

In reality he's very successful grifter who live a comfortable life for over 4 decades now by preying on teenage libertarians pocket money. Also he's actually quite useful, since for all this time he is making libertarianism be ridiculed by most people.