A short exchange between a leftist and a libertarian-conservative…

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…explaining Libertarian Class Theory.

Leftist: "Libertarians may have started class warfare as your article states? Hmmmm."

Libertarian-Conservative: "No, the libertarians didn’t ‘start class warfare,’ but…

,,,the earlier theorists of freedom and government discovered what they believed drives history, i.e. class warfare between violent "takers" (gangs and looters who use or threaten violence to get what they want, and who, historically, eventually coalesce into ‘governments’), and peaceable ‘makers’ (those who engage in voluntary cooperative trade with others in order to earn their daily bread rather than forcibly taking it).

Marx took the concept and twisted it into an erroneous theory of class conflict between capitalists and workers. In reality, the capitalists (entrepreneurs and owners of capital and land) and workers (all those who create or make something of value that others will trade for) are on the same side.

In reality, ‘class conflict’ exists between those who have something to sell and peaceably trade with others (workers, capitalists, entrepreneurs), versus those who ‘take what they want’ (gangs, armed hordes, looters, mobs…governments, et al.).

The genius of the Founding Fathers was to create a system where those with the power to take what they want—i.e. the American federal government—were thought and intended to be restrained by "the chains of the Constitution." It worked for 150 years or so before the "political classes" started figuring out how to effectively game the system to their own advantage.

See? If you have any questions, feel free to ask! In the libertarian movement, the above is common knowledge, but it still must be learned to be understood."

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