"Moderation" here usually means "if you agree with me, you're just being reasonable and exercise common sense, if you disagree with me, you're an extremist and your views don't even merit discussion". You call somebody "moderate" if he mostly agrees with you, except for some insignificant details.
How is is "totalitarian" to support personal freedom, is beyond me. Can you give an example of a totalitarian libertarian concept?
>>>> * An archipelago of private dictatorships is called "feudalism", and is no better than a single public dictatorship.
Please look it up in the dictionary, "feudalism" does not mean that. I can easily see one reason why small dictatorships are better - it's much easier to escape a bad small private dictator than a bad totalitarian state. Bad small dictator can be put out of business with relative ease, bad totalitarian state is very hard to change - see North Korea.
>>>> "Property is theft!", as Bakunin put it.
You mean Pierre-Joseph Proudhon. He also said "anarchy is order", I wonder if you agree with that too. Also he advocated absence of government. Do you agree with that too? Way to be "moderate", in this case.
>>>> exploitative wage-labor you perform every weekday.
I don't know where you are working, but I don't perform any "exploitative labor". I've heard there are some studios in South California that produce what is called "exploitation films", but I'm not nearly pretty enough to be in show business, even though rumors are there's some money to be made there.
>>>> * Some people genuinely believe that "freedom" in the sense libertarians define it is unimportant or unworthy. See: religious conservatives.
Yes. I know. Also see: modern left. That's why I say majority of US people do not value freedom, although for quite different ideological reasons, but for one underlying reason - freedom for you means freedom for everybody else, including freedom to do what pisses you off. For most people, it is just intolerable to realize other people can do what they don't like and there's no way to stop them.
>>>> Private capitalist markets are provably incapable of handling public goods.
By "incapable" you mean "they would not produce result I like". It's like saying "gravity is incapable of handling bricks" because bricks don't fly. Private markets are perfectly capable of handling anything, they just won't produce the results politicians would like, e.g. they won't probably spend half-trillion dollars on Solyndra. Since many people want Solyndra, you need coercion to make it happen.
"Moderation" here usually means "if you agree with me, you're just being reasonable and exercise common sense, if you disagree with me, you're an extremist and your views don't even merit discussion". You call somebody "moderate" if he mostly agrees with you, except for some insignificant details. How is is "totalitarian" to support personal freedom, is beyond me. Can you give an example of a totalitarian libertarian concept?
>>>> * An archipelago of private dictatorships is called "feudalism", and is no better than a single public dictatorship.
Please look it up in the dictionary, "feudalism" does not mean that. I can easily see one reason why small dictatorships are better - it's much easier to escape a bad small private dictator than a bad totalitarian state. Bad small dictator can be put out of business with relative ease, bad totalitarian state is very hard to change - see North Korea.
>>>> "Property is theft!", as Bakunin put it.
You mean Pierre-Joseph Proudhon. He also said "anarchy is order", I wonder if you agree with that too. Also he advocated absence of government. Do you agree with that too? Way to be "moderate", in this case.
>>>> exploitative wage-labor you perform every weekday.
I don't know where you are working, but I don't perform any "exploitative labor". I've heard there are some studios in South California that produce what is called "exploitation films", but I'm not nearly pretty enough to be in show business, even though rumors are there's some money to be made there.
>>>> * Some people genuinely believe that "freedom" in the sense libertarians define it is unimportant or unworthy. See: religious conservatives.
Yes. I know. Also see: modern left. That's why I say majority of US people do not value freedom, although for quite different ideological reasons, but for one underlying reason - freedom for you means freedom for everybody else, including freedom to do what pisses you off. For most people, it is just intolerable to realize other people can do what they don't like and there's no way to stop them.
>>>> Private capitalist markets are provably incapable of handling public goods.
By "incapable" you mean "they would not produce result I like". It's like saying "gravity is incapable of handling bricks" because bricks don't fly. Private markets are perfectly capable of handling anything, they just won't produce the results politicians would like, e.g. they won't probably spend half-trillion dollars on Solyndra. Since many people want Solyndra, you need coercion to make it happen.