IMPOSING SO-CALLED "ECONOMIC JUSTICE" IS BASICALLY TYRANNICAL & ANTI-LIBERTARIAN: THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS SCOOPS BELMONT CLUB BY 6 YEARS

TODAY , VIA GLENN:

RICHARD FERNANDEZ:

Liberation under the Piven doctrine effectively becomes a choice by the serfs of which aristocracy they believe will do best by them, since worth is determined by the political process anyway. Which side do we back by our “mass actions”? Liberation becomes the process of putting the “right” people in charge of the masses.

It is not — it is never — putting the masses in charge of themselves.

Why not put the masses in charge of their own lives? Because that would require facilitating innumerable transactions and contracts between individuals. That would require self-interest and economic calculation to propel the system. That would mean a market, whose job it would be for the state to keep fair, and that were too little a role for such as Piven thinks should rule the roost.

ME 6 YEARS AGO:

The Democratic Revolution – started in the USA in 1776 – is still the most revolutionary revolution of all time.

What Leftists think of as revolutionary – namely socialism – (in all its forms: Marxism; Fascism; Nazism; Maoism; Stalinism; Castroism; Mugabe-ism; Ho-Chi-Minhism; Pol-Potism; Trotskyitism) – is nothing more than a tyranny by the state over the individual; (many even called it, “the DICTATORSHIP of the proletariat” – not even feigning that democracy was even an intention; in fact, communism merely substituted one aristocracy – one of inherited birthrights – for another: that of orthodox adherence to a false ideology).

All people and movements which stand in the way of the advance of humanity from tyranny to democracy, and from serfdom to liberty (and the prosperity that ONLY liberty produces) – are reactionary.

ALL: Leftists and jihadists.

They’re birds of a feather.

THE TERM "DICTATORSHIP OF THE PROLETARIAT" WAS THEIRS - ONE THEY WERE PROUD OF. AND IT WAS ACCURATE.

They wanted to replace the tyrannical ARISTOCRACY with a tyrannical mob.

As Glenn says, meet the new boss, just like the old boss: it's still tyranny just by different folks.

Socialism was not and can never be about LIBERATION because it is fundamentally anti-libertarian: it doesn't end feudalism; it merely up-ends of it.

THIS IS WHY HAYEK SO WISELY CALLED SOCIALISM "THE ROAD TO SERFDOM": SERFS WERE DIRT POOR AND BECAUSE THEY WERE TYRANNIZED BY A STRONG CENTRAL STATE GOVERMENT, HAD NO RIGHTS AND NO LIBERTY.