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	Criticism of libertarianism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Libertarianism is a political philosophy that supports largely unrestricted property rights and opposes most government functions (such as taxation, prosecution of victimless crimes and regulations on businesses beyond the minimum required to prevent fraud or property damage) as coercive, even if a democratic majority supports it.
		Libertarians counter that this analysis ignores the complex labor of arranging for and managing production, the various investment risks, and the lost opportunity costs involved in deferring consumption until sufficient capital can be amassed to build a factory or hire workers and then spending it on these factors of production.
		Critics sometimes respond that neglecting to tie production to ownership often results in situations in which the producers (workers) do not receive the full benefit of their own labor, or that impoverished laborers cannot "voluntarily" make agreements with someone because the capitalist's control of the means of production is coercive.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Criticism_of_libertarianism (2673 words)

	Encyclopedia: Libertarianism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Libertarians define "coercion" as the use of physical force, the threat of such, or deception (fraud), that alters, or is intended to alter, the way individuals would use their body or property.
		The libertarian principle prohibiting coercion is known as the non-aggression principle, and many libertarians consider it a defining tenet from which spring all their political views.
		Criticism of libertarianism from the left tends to focus on its economic aspects, claiming that capitalism of a radical laissez-faire (free market) character undermines individual liberty, or creates poverty and harms society and the economy.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Libertarianism (11242 words)

	Libertarianism Online Research :: Information about Libertarianism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Libertarian perspectives on abortion : The Abortion debate among libertarians centers around whether the Fetus is a person (and thus has its own rights) or a part of the mother's body (in which case it is subject to her wishes).
		Libertarian perspectives on animal rights: Some libertarians grant basic rights to animals (they count as individuals and therefore have the right not to be subjected to coercion), while others see animals as property, and think their owners are free to treat them as they wish.
		Some criticize the motives of libertarians, saying that they support libertarian ideas only because they serve as a means of justifying and maintaining what these critics perceive to be their position near the top of existing Social hierarchy.
	in-northcarolina.com /search/Libertarianism.html (6334 words)

	Libertarianism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Libertarian perspectives on abortion: The abortion debate among libertarians centers around whether the fetus is a person (and thus has its own rights) or a part of the mother's body (in which case it is subject to her wishes).
		Libertarian perspectives on gay rights: Most libertarians feel that adults have a right to choose their own lifestyle or sexual preference, provided that such expression does not trample on the same freedom of other people to chose their own sexual peference or religious freedom.
		Such critics may argue that the libertarian definition of "freedom" (as visualized in the Nolan Chart) is flawed because it ignores the effects powerlessness and poverty have on liberty.
	www.tuxedo-shop.com /search.php?title=Libertarianism (4367 words)

	The Transformation of Libertarianism? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Libertarians who were (and are) hard-line ideologues when stating general principles become considerably less so when confronting hypothetical situations where their moral beliefs lead to very unpleasant consequences.
		Libertarians believe that history, economics, reason, and the study of human nature indicate that the best results are generated by granting every person the freedom to use his own knowledge and his own resources for his own purposes.
		Where they [consequentialist libertarians] part company from the moralist libertarian is that they see non-aggression as a general moral principle, one with profound and positive consequences, but not as a moral imperative from which all social and political thought can be derived.
	www.libertysoft.com /liberty/features/73symposium.html (11118 words)

	Libertarianism Makes You Stupid
		One of the little tricks Libertarians use in debate is to confuse the ordinary sense of these words with the meaning as "terms of art" in Libertarian axioms.
		In part why Libertarian is a disease of techno-geeks is that you have to be fairly intelligent to find that sort of long axiomatic proof at all convincing.
		Libertarian logic is an axiomatic system that bears very little resemblance to standard deductive thought - which is in part why it's so debilitating to people.
	sethf.com /essays/major/libstupid.php (3696 words)

	Critiques Of Libertarianism
		Libertarians are by no means unified in their positions, and some of their strongest criticisms are aimed at each other.
		Libertarians tend to consider government a drain on the economy, when in actuality it is an active player in creating a more vigorous economy.
		Libertarians are generally unabashedly in favor of privatization and deregulation, with only minor limits in the case of minarchists.
	world.std.com /~mhuben/libindex.html (735 words)

	Marcus Epstein (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The basis of libertarianism is not “equal liberty” as they claim, it’s the non aggression principle derived from property rights and self ownership.
		Block is about as uncompromising a libertarian as you can find, but he had no problem stating that he believed that for sociobiological reasons, people are wired to have reservations about the free market.
		This did not make him give up his support of capitalism or libertarianism, but he simply recognized this reality as an obstacle that had to be taken into consideration.
	www.marcusepstein.com /13101/13132.html (1506 words)

	libertarianism -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Libertarianism and liberalism both arose in the West, where the division of power between spiritual and temporal rulers had been greater than in most other parts of the world.
		A long-standing criticism of libertarianism is that it presupposes an unrealistic and undesirable conception of individual identity and of the conditions necessary for human flourishing.
		Opponents of libertarianism often refer to libertarian individualism as “atomistic,” arguing that it ignores the role of family, tribe, religious community, and state in forming...
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9097651?tocId=9097651 (461 words)

	Liberty - Marxism of the Right?
		Libertarianism is not the "Marxism of the Right," as a critic has recently charged.
		Libertarianism and classical liberalism, on the other hand, demand nothing of the sort, and this is primarily because the foundation of libertarianism is not a holistic philosophy of mankind.
		It is proper to note that libertarianism demands some level of political obeisance to individual preference; but it never proposes the kind of moral nihilism that Locke claims as its primary motive.
	libertyunbound.com /archive/2005_05/coleman-marxism.html (1848 words)

	Amazon.com: Escape From Leviathan : Liberty, Welfare, and Anarchy Reconciled: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The principal criticism of libertarianism is that it would damage human welfare.
		What is possible is to propose a theory or a doctrine and subject it to criticism, then if it stands up we may proceed with that theory or doctrine until such time as an alternative is proposed that has better credentials and stands up to criticism at least as well as the previous candidate.
		The criticism of John Gray is important because for some time he enjoyed a high profile as a rare instance of a classical liberal Oxford don.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0312234163?v=glance (5119 words)

	Critical Review -- Vol.12 No.3 ---- Summer 1998
		G.A. Cohen has produced an influential criticism of libertarianism that posits joint ownership of everything in the world other than labor, with each joint owner having a veto right over any potential use of the world.
		Palmer's defense of libertarianism as consequentialist runs afoul of his own failure to provide any consequentialist reasons for libertarian conclusions, and of his own defense of nonconsequentialist arguments for the intrinsic value of capitalism-cum-negative freedom.
		Sciabarra's defense of Ayn Rand's libertarianism is even more problematic, because in addition to the usual defects of libertarianism, Rand adds a commitment to ethical egoism that contradicts both her concern for the consequences of capitalism and her commitment to the rights of everyone, not just herself.
	www.criticalreview.com /vol12no3toc.html (1072 words)

	In a Blog's Stead - January 2003
		Libertarians are always, or nearly so, confronting a father figure they've rejected and hated during childhood.
		The root cause of libertarianism in men is found in the family dynamic (genetics notwithstanding), where a son develops a deep dislike for father's authoritarian control (father may have been too strict and uncompromising) -- but without rejecting father's rationalism altogether.
		Libertarians will tout legalization of drugs until their libertine neighbors get stoned and apply libertarianism in, say, molesting their child or slashing a relative to pieces in an hallucinatory fit of anger or running down grandma walking in the neighborhood.
	praxeology.net /unblog01-03.htm (14219 words)

	Critiques Of Libertarianism: Environmentalism.
		Libertarians are often grotesquely anti-environmental in terms of regulation.
		It first criticizes libertarianism in general, and then with respect to environmental problems.
		Two extropian libertarians didn't think extinctions were important, and thought libertarianism was the answer.
	world.std.com /%7Emhuben/environ.html (661 words)

	tomgpalmer.com: Reason Review of Libertarianism Without Inequality Now Online
		So, whatever "right" or "left" libertarianism might mean (and those who use the terms refer, not to such matters as the rights of gay people, but to the right to control property, earn profits, and the like), Gary North and his evil views do not deserve the name.
		Now, I believe you CAN be a good libertarian and oppose abortion, but I think one has to draw the line at supporting a marriage amendment, and someone who advocates stoning homosexuals (and, for that matter, a theocracy) such as North and his ilk do cannot in any way be called libertarians.
		You may enjoy my response to G.A. Cohen's attack on libertarianism, which is available at http://www.tomgpalmer.com/papers/palmer-cohen-cr-v12n3.pdf.
	www.tomgpalmer.com /archives/016772.php (926 words)

	NoodleFood: More on Sanction in Speaking (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		But the stated, explicit goal of many in the libertarian movement is to create a coalition of people with varied (i.e., incompatible) moral views.
		To tie this to Paul's example of the surgeon, there is a difference between speaking to a group one knows to be sympathetic to quacks, and speaking to a group one reasonably believes is pro-science but in fact is not.
		Also, while I will not speak to any Libertarian Party group, I have thought that it would be a good thing if members of that party worked against Referendum C. There does seem to be a crucial distinction between the sanctioning of bad ideas and the formation of appropriate strategic alliances.
	www.dianahsieh.com /blog/2005/08/more-on-sanction-in-speaking.html (706 words)

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