Pathologies and Unrealized Promise of Libertarianism
* Article/Chapter: Turning the Tables: The pathologies and unrealized promise of libertarianism. Gus DiZerega, 2015. This chapter is from Georgia Kelly, ed., Uncivil Liberties: Deconstructing Libertarianism. NY: Praxis Peace Institute 2013.
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"As a scholar and former libertarian, I have been disappointed at libertarians’ general failure to engage in serious debate with their critics, but I have also been disappointed with most critics’ relatively simplistic attacks on libertarian ideology. I wrote this chapter for a book of essays criticizing libertarianism. Some are among the best critiques written, but none but mine are written “from the inside” so to speak. It demonstrates how libertarian ideology does not understand its own key concepts, such as individuals, freedom, coercion, power, property, contracts, and democracy. Not only does this failure undermine their policy conclusions, it also prevents them from seeing the real possibilities opened up by taking individual freedom as the major value." (https://www.dizerega.com/2015/06/30/turning-the-tables-the-pathologies-and-unrealized-promise-of-libertarianism/?)