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this post was submitted on 16 Aug 2023
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This is why libertarianism has a fundamental lack of base problem. Working class wants nothing to do with it, the actual capitalist class may employ libertarian rhetoric but never the true implementation because cronyism is just them protecting their interests, and the middle class sees enough of that overlapping interest to be put off. Which leaves a small number of temporarily embarrassed billionaire failsons and petty bourgeoisie small business tyrants who would turn on the ideology the moment the petty drops from their class status.
One minor contention I’d have with that write up is that it doesn’t apply to conservatism as free market absolutism is a marriage of convenience for them, not a bedrock principle. They pay lip service to it only as much as it serves the purpose of carving out a protected place for traditional hierarchies within a market economy, and that support goes out the window the moment market preferences don’t align with those hierarchies’ interests.