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Dunedan: Thank you VERY much for your responses on this thread. Exactly the sort of thing I was hoping to get. For the first time, I can see Libertarianism as a self-consistent and logically workable worldview. I'm not saying I agree with it--though I certainly do see the value of parts of what you've said--but I can see it as something a sensible person might conclude.
I have a questions, to deepen my understanding.
Would you say that modern-day Libertarians have any real hope that this corporation-free minimal-government ideal will ever be realized? When I read your first post, I couldn't help but think, "Yeah, right!" I mean--it sounds nice in the abstract, but it would be a massive piece of work to undo thousands of years of governmental and financial structures. I can't even imagine what that would take.
Which, it seems to me, relegates modern Libertarians to the role of quixotic complainer--forever outside the mainstream, doomed to rail against it without any real hope of effecting the change they want to see, at least, not in their lifetime.
What do you think about that? I suspect that you will find that an inaccurate characterization, and I'm interested in why.
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