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Nexus X HumectressAlexander Dugin’s Fourth Political Theory is an attempt to create a new ideology beyond lliberal democracy, fascism, and communism while avoiding “prejudices” against any of these. I would argue that the approach of ATS amounts to a “fifth political theory” which involves establishing the anti-authoritarian paradigm (pan-anarchism) as a “revolutionary center” which opposes liberal democracy, fascism, and communism as existential enemies.
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What happened to libertarianism?
Libertarianism in North America has has largely been consumed by culture war politics, i.e. the “Who is most oppressed?” pissing context between the Red and Blue Tribes.
Todd Seavey has a good description of what has happened to libertarianism: https://www.splicetoday.com/politics-and-media/thick-libertarians
What I am interested in is advancing what I call the “anti-authoritarian paradigm” as a “revolutionary center” which rejects the liberal/conservative duopoly but also rejects authoritarian ideologies like fascism and communism. Peter Marshall has a book that provides as very good overview of this anti-authoritarian paradigm, and its historical trajectory: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/880355.Demanding_the_Impossible
Well, I discovered I was a libertarian in about 1975, upon seeing libertarian literature. It wasn’t that the literature convinced me; I immediately realized I was “there” already, and in fact had always been there.
Until 1995 I was a “minarchist libertarian”; in 1995 I discovered the solution to what I didn’t then know was David Friedman’s “Hard Problem”, the difficulty (impossibility?) of defending a libertarian or anarchist region from external aggression.
https://cryptome.org/ap.htm
Having done that, I became an “anarchist libertarian”.
I clicked on the link, saw the words “Assassination Politics” at the top of the page, immediately thought of Assassin’s Creed, then backed out so I don’t get in trouble for reading about assassination. I’m kind of a pussy like that. I might go ahead and read it, but I better not get a visit from the men in black.
Please notice that I wrote it in 1995-96. Don’t be scared of reading different ideas, especially ones that (I claim) will permanently eliminate militaries, wars, and governments. Sounds improbable? Read it and see.
Damn, that’s back when I was a baby….I ain’t so scared about different ideas, just the Feds showing up at my front door. Decided to read it, certainly an interesting concept, but a bit “techy” for me. Is encryption technology really secure enough to do all that?
If you Google search ‘ “ethereum” “augur” “assassination” ‘, limiting your cites to anything on or after July 2018, you will see an effort to build a ‘death prediction market’. That is not exactly an ‘assassination market’,, but in principle they are close.