Liberalism ≠ Libertarianism

These two terms may sound similar to many but they are distinct and fundamentally different.

One is concerned with the economy; the other with the individual — the individual's freedom and wellbeing.

Liberalism's end is the economy — economic growth etc; it's all about the economy, the economy is its "fundamental reality". The individual is regarded only as a means for this end. Liberalism is a spook, it is based on spooks. “Private property lives by grace of the law.… it is not a fact…but a fiction, a thought.”

Libertarianism is concerned with the individual — their freedom, autonomy and wellbeing. The economy is not seen as an end or even as a reality in itself, but rather as a result of the interactions between individuals with respect to production and consumption; and the desirable sort of "economy" is the interactions between free people — i.e., socialism/communism; no longer seen as a separate entity in itself.

The Propertarians, who falsely call themselves libertarians, are actually liberals, which they too acknowledge, but since the term "liberal" became vague, acquiring a meaning somewhat different from what they wanted, they tried to appropriate our term "libertarian". Their ideology is a variant of classical liberalism.

Libertarianism and liberalism are, again, fundamentally different and, in this sense, diametrically opposed.

Same shit, different time

The eulogists of work.
Behind the glorification of 'work' and the tireless talk of the 'blessings of work' I find the same thought as behind the praise of impersonal activity for the public benefit: the fear of everything individual. At bottom, one now feels when confronted with work – and what is invariably meant is relentless industry from early till late – that such work is the best police, that it keeps everybody in harness and powerfully obstructs the development of reason, of covetousness, of the desire for independence. For it uses up a tremendous amount of nervous energy and takes it away from reflection, brooding, dreaming, worry, love, and hatred; it always sets a small goal before one's eyes and permits easy and regular satisfactions. In that way a society in which the members continually work hard will have more security: and security is now adored as the supreme goddess...

— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Dawn of Day

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Existential Comics

(as soon as the bomb was developed)

“If one awakens in men the idea of freedom then the free men will incessantly go on to free themselves; if, on the contrary, one only educates them, then they will at all times accommodate themselves to circumstances in the most highly educated and elegant manner and degenerate into subservient cringing souls. What are our gifted and educated subjects for the most part? Scornful, smiling slave-owners and themselves slaves.”

— Max Stirner, The False Principle of Our Education

Tankies' political positions make even less sense than conservatives'

“Whoever is a complete person does not need to be an authority.”

— Max Stirner, The False Principle of Our Education

“Today as always, people fall into two groups: slaves and free people. Whoever does not have two-thirds of their day for themself, is a slave, whatever they may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche,
Human, All Too Human

The privileged are mostly stupid

“One will ask, but how will it be then, when the have-nots take courage? What sort of compensation is there to be then? One might as well ask that I cast a child's birth chart. To know what a slave will do once he has broken his chains, one must—await.”

— Max Stirner

„Die Wahrheit ist häßlich. Wir haben die Kunst, damit wir nicht an der Wahrheit zu Grunde gehen.“

“The truth [reality] is ugly. We have art so that we don't die of truth.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche,
Der Wille zur Macht (The Will to Power)