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Title: Why Radical Libertarians Are the New Communists - A toxic strand of a political ideology
Source:
evonomics.com
URL Source: https://evonomics.com/why-libertarians-are-the-new-communists/
Published: Jun 29, 2016
Author: Nick Hanauer and Eric Liu
Post Date: 2016-06-29 07:59:55 by Gatlin
Keywords: None
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Most people would consider radical libertarianism and communism polar opposites: The first glorifies personal freedom. The second would obliterate it. Yet the ideologies are simply mirror images. Both attempt to answer the same questions, and fail to do so in similar ways. Where communism was adopted, the result was misery, poverty and tyranny. If extremist libertarians ever translated their beliefs into policy, it would lead to the same kinds of catastrophe. Read the article here.
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The authors : Eric Liu is the founder of Citizen University and a former White House speechwriter and deputy domestic policy adviser to President Bill Clinton. Eric Liu, founder, is an author, educator, and civic entrepreneur. Eric co-authored The Gardens of Democracy and The True Partriot with Nick Hanauer, and together the two have created the True Patriot Network to advance the book's ideals of progressive patriotism.
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