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Entry: "Islamophobia" and "Anti-Fascist" Frauds Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/islamophobia_and_anti_fascist_frauds#1540 Post contents: Mr Hayes asked: "John Ball, do you see libertarianism taking a militant revolutionary approach like the Bolsheviks?" My answer is: I see today's American kind of Libertarianism having a POTENTIAL to take a militant revolutionary approach like the Bolsheviks. Karl Marx would turn over in his grave if he could see how his ideas were turned into revolutionary superstitions by the Russian Bolsheviks. Although, it was virtually inevitable that Marx's rationalistic, scientistic ideas would be turned into superstitious magic in the long run - because the foundations of Marx's ideas were materialist superstitions, destined to end in folly and in anarchy and in murder... ...and so, yes I see the same kind of POTENTIAL for today's American Libertarians to start a "revolution" like the Bolshevik revolution, which might SEEM to have good intentions in the first instance, but it will inevitably end in chaos and in evil, IF (let me repeat, IF, or rather, as in geometry, IFF, if an only if) - IFF America's Libertarians base their revolution upon materialist assumptions like Marx did. I agree with around 90 percent of what most American Libertarians believe in - except for the belief which most of them seem to have in the superordination of Human Reason above Human willful stupidity, and the materialist assumptions which all too many Libertarians share with Marx. However, I am 100 percent in agreement with any Libertarianism which acknowledges that the Christian belief in Original Sin will alway take precedence over any belief in Human Reason. In sum, you can call me a Christian Libertarian. But I'm Christian before I'm a Libertarian, and I 100 percent do NOT believe that any economic system OR any political system can ever do any good for the world unless enlightened by Christ. And a corollary of that, is my belief that simply annihilating "government" will do no good at all, because the essential Human condition of Original Sin will remain with or without any "government." And one more thing: I think it is very arbitrary and very abstract to posit any categorical difference between property which is attained through "aggression" versus any other property - because the legacy of ALL, ALL property, ultimately goes back to some kind of aggression, ie, ALL property has its origin in some kind of original sin, and to believe that we can ever unwind those threads and return to some kind of original, pure state in which property has NO relation to original sin, is to think a lot like the Marxists did... ...the Communists said their rule would only be a TEMPORARY measure, until they could lead the world back to an Edenic state in which no man exploited any other. And I fear, that the good intentions of many Libertarians will inevitably lead to some kind of "temporary" tyranny - very similar to that of the Communists - which will never end, because the only path out of our condition of original sin is NOT through any economics, but only through Christ. So, do you understand me better now? :-) I would LIKE to be a pure Libertarian, but as I believe in Original Sin, I know it is 100 percent impossible to turn the world back to a time before original sin, except through Christ. No, no, NO "temporary" measures will ever solve this problem. The Libertarians can never, never, never unwind all of the complicated threads of "property", because ALL property has been tainted by thousands of years of sin. And so, yes I DO fear that there is a POTENTIAL for the Libertarians to begin with good intentions - just like the Communists did - but to end in tyranny, because ALL revolutions end in tyranny, except for the revolution of the Spirit which Christ began in year 33 AD. And Christ said his Kingdom is not of this world - Christ's Kingdom is certainly not based on economics. Sent at: 2008 05 16