Quote from: Carlton Banks on October 15, 2016, 01:38:15 PM

Liberalism= Free association, private property, capitalism, minimal or zero government

Authoritarianism = Everything valuable owned by the elite, communism OR fascism, the proles are equally poor either way, maximum government

Quote from: DooMAD on October 16, 2016, 12:10:30 PM

Since Bitcoin is all about personal responsibility, I'm of the opinion (which I'm sure you and many others here won't agree with) that you should carefully consider your investments before plowing money into them. I came into Bitcoin with the full understanding that it was an open source system and that anyone is free to modify the code as they see fit. So I find it hard to sympathise with those who believe that the people running the code don't matter. It's self evident that they do.

While the right could be authoritarian, in most cases it isnt, it focuses on self-discipline and self-governance.

The left is always authoritarian, anarchists in the 1800 turned into bolshevist-marxists by 1900. You have to force equality because it is unnatural, and naturally people are unequal.

In order to create perfect equality, you will have an almighty government that will use totalitarian force in every aspect of your life to enforce equality, and everyone will be equal but the state officials that enforce this.

A good example of a right wing libertarian state was the Roman Republic pre Punic Wars: there was free market, no income tax, tiny regulations in form of permits, voluntary military, no socialism, and property taxes were so low that you only had to work 1 day in a year to pay it off, and there was no inflation either.

Compare that to your shitty soviet factory, undisciplined ,where half workers were drunk and they couldn't even produce basic stuff, everything was imported from the west.

Incomparable. So I'd choose a libertarian right, because left libertarian is oxymoron.

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It seems to be a popular misconception on this forum that "left" automatically equates to "communism".

It is. Because as soon as you create some equality, you want to push the limit further.

It's like dropping a drop of red ink in clean water, it spreads very quickly and makes all the water red.

Enforcement of equality will escalate, and you will end up with an unimaginably tyrranical authoritarian government, STALIN ^ 1000 level tyranny.

So any form of leftism will escalate into tyrannical communism very quickly.

All this left-anarchism, syndicalism, liberalism, social-democracy, will end up in communism eventually, it's not a question if, but when.

"Democracy is indispensable to socialism." - Lenin

"The goal of socialism is communism." - Lenin