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Anonymous06/21/25, 08:18No.24484242Libertarianism
Where to start?
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Anon06/21/25, 08:19No.24484243
https://www.youtube.com/@StosselTV
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Anon06/21/25, 08:45No.24484274
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Anon06/21/25, 08:47No.24484279
Mises, Friedman, Rothbard, Hayek, etcRand wasn't a libertarian but Objectivism paralleled its development and shared common dna. lesser figures like Hans-Hermann Hoppe and Walter Block, too are worth exploring.also read the roots in thinkers like Bastiat, Locke, Mill, Paine and De Molinari.
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Anon06/21/25, 08:49No.24484282
Getting Libertarianism right by Hoppe was a good and easy start for me. Enjoyable and interesting read. If you liked that maybe try A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism by him. Its longer but still a good read.
And try reading random shit by Rothbard.And if you want random shit read Nozick or Kuehnelt-Leddihn.
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Anon06/21/25, 09:25No.24484320
Start by licking boots of your boss.
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Anon06/21/25, 10:54No.24484470
In the trash.
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Anon06/21/25, 12:55No.24484692
offtopic. fuck off to /pol/
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Anon06/21/25, 15:48No.24485122
Modern libertarianism has lost any meaningful connection to a body of philosophy/political theory that liberty as an ideal - especially an American one - is tied to. Political movements move, you are not allowed to ask the question that is answered at the beginning of the movement and you are not allowed to question the goal that was decided by the answer. You conform, you regurgitate, you mentally isolate yourself from the influence of other people and even their ideas within your own internal monologue. Like a good slave.
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Anon06/21/25, 16:06No.24485158
Michael Huemer, likely the only libertarian that you will ever need. Very concise and well articulate when it comes to developping his arguments; also ordinary language philosophy which is always a plus.
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Anon06/21/25, 16:28No.24485201
Most people grow out of it by their mid-twenties. Don't bother.
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Anon06/21/25, 17:30No.24485347
Could I interest you in a different ideology?
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Anon06/21/25, 17:36No.24485365
mises > rothbard > hoppe
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Anon06/21/25, 17:41No.24485383
Daily reminder that there is a pipeline from Kant to libertarianism and that rejecting it places you in hegelian bullshit terrain. I beg that all hegelian haters gather in libertarian political thought.
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Anon06/21/25, 18:00No.24485430
I always thought animal farm was a pretty good book about libertarianism. Or A Tale of Two Cities. That's an excellent book on libertarianism, and it's effects.Or did you want propagandists? Rothbard is a good propagandist. He'll have you defending his power over you before the morning.
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Anon06/21/25, 19:04No.24485585
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Anon06/21/25, 21:10No.24485863
Have your brain removed. Then everything will be easier.
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Anon06/21/25, 21:15No.24485872
Just read material analysis instead of wasting time with stuff like this. Or risk yourself becoming a pseud like anon here
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Anon06/21/25, 23:38No.24486195
A bit outdated but very light and practical approach is books like How to Live Free in a Unfree World.
It's a starting point that is pretty easy to digest compared to the philosophies the book is based on, and it's all put in the context of putting libertarian ideas in practice on a personal practical individual level right now in the real world rather than wait for someone else to change the world into a hypothetical ancapastain.
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Anon06/21/25, 23:39No.24486201
Rothbard's early writings were fucking brilliant. Shame he wound up so lame later.
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Anon06/22/25, 09:40No.24486984
Libertarianism is internalised capitalist alienation to the point where people believe that the individual is a self contained actor, fully independent from external material realities or society as a whole. It's delusionalThis kind of sheer blindness to material reality is necessary to make proponents of this ideology blind to the sheer wealth and power of multi-millionares and billionares who benefit from such libertine policies. Which of course ties to blindness to systematic inequalities.
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Anon06/22/25, 13:23No.24487247
Genesis chapter 3.
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Anon06/22/25, 16:07No.24487619
You don't, at least not until we get a new planetary body.
Jeffersonian fantasies are childish on worlds of 10 billion people. Too many low IQs to wrangle.
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Anon06/22/25, 16:14No.24487632
do you really need to read books about libertarianism? premise is simple enough: take the invisible hand to its ultimate conclusion.it's obvious there are lines invisible hand should not be made to cross. private police forces competing with each other is not going to work (lol). not only that but is it the time to be arguing about how superior privately owned highways would be when your neighborhood is being taken over by literal cannibals from 3rd world?libertarianism is like communism for people with triple digit IQs to dream about and waste time with when they should really be thinking about race.
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Anon06/22/25, 21:01No.24488334
please fuck not Ayan Rand
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Anon06/23/25, 01:04No.24488798
>Where to start?
David Boaz
https://www.amazon.com/Libertarian-Mind-Manifesto-Freedom-ebook/dp/B00LD1OSTY
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Anon06/23/25, 05:47No.24489231
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nozick-political/
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Anon06/23/25, 08:50No.24489463
For A New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto is absolute peak.
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Anon06/23/25, 13:59No.24489831
snakes must feel so fucking embarrassed for showing up to earth like that. literally brought nothing but his own ass
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Anon06/23/25, 15:48No.24490071
Before I leave the thread, I would like to recommend Liberalismo: Los 10 principios básicos del orden político liberal by Juan Ramón Rallo. It's in Spanish so I didn't recommend it first but maybe someone here knows Spanish as a second language.
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Anon06/24/25, 04:09No.24491756
I lean left (somewhat) socially and right (somewhat) economically but I'd rather be called a slur then a libertarian.