All you need to know about Bob Barr
Bob Barr recently said he’s running for the office of US president in order to “rekindle peoples faith in government”. That is an anti-libertarian agenda.
Agorists, in particular among libertarians, recognize that perhaps the most crucial task in the process of building a revolutionary libertarian class consciousness is attacking and destroying faith in government. Only a fool or a villain would want to restore people’s faith in government — because both the supposed moral legitimacy and the supposed practical utility of government are lies. Myths. Tall tales. Whoppers. Bullshit.
Those falsehoods are not merely lies, though. They are the lies that form the foundation the entire system of oppression known as “government” rests upon. Reference La Boétie’s centuries old Discourse of Voluntary Servitude. Furthermore, note William Lind’s observation that Fourth Generation Warfare is fundamentally about “a universal crisis of legitimacy of the state”.
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Barf. There is certainly a place for “kindling” alongside “faith in government” in libertarianism, but when it’s not being used to build a bonfire one does wonder just what is going on here.
I was glad to hear this read on Free Talk Live several weeks back.
I think we’re beginning to grow outside of our corridor of the internet as Agorists.