Juan, I'm still
waiting for you to justify your claim that Christopher
Cantwell isn't a libertarian. Your merely pointing to his
assertion that libertarians shouldn't be (or need not be) in
favor of open borders, simply highlights which side of the
argument you are on: It doesn't say that Cantwell is
necessarily wrong. It would help your position immensely
if you could point to a substantial number of positions
Cantwell has taken which libertarians would generally agree
that contradict libertarian philosophy.
Jim
Bell
[partial quote below]
Why Libertarians Are
Corrupted By The Left
I should
again explain, I am discussing libertarians, not
libertarianism. The following critique would rightly be met
with complaints by well read Rothbardians as containing a
great many falsehoods. I have made these complaints
repeatedly myself.
In their
efforts to grow their numbers, and in the face of perpetual
frustrations in getting wolves and rabbits to shrug off
their evolutionary psychology, libertarian groups have
resorted to recruiting non-libertarians into their ranks.
This presumably was perceived as a competitive advantage in
a political system which favors numbers over reasoned
arguments or factual correctness.
In the
course of so doing, it is my perception that leftists are
particularly more prone to swing toward libertarian social
circles than rightists, due primarily to a lack of ingroup
preference. It is not that they become libertarians or
suddenly shrug off their rodent like evolutionary
psychology. They are simply more prone to novelty seeking
,and lack any group loyalty or attachment to any particular
idea. They are still rodents, but they realize they can have
a higher social status in this smaller group than in their
larger openly left wing group. A left libertarian blogger
may become the envy of his left libertarian peers, but would
accomplish absolutely nothing when competing against the
vast expanse of mainstream liberal media.
The
rightist on the other hand is less prone to novelty seeking,
has a higher ingroup preference, and is more averse to
radical changes in the existing social and economic order.
Additionally, he is aware that his inferior numbers make his
absence in a democratic contest far more consequential than
that of the leftist. So he is far more averse to radically
altering his thinking, his social circles, or his political
activity to favor a more libertarian order.