Reply #93: The Libertarian capitalist ideal is a load of trash...

[Darranar]

but to a large degree they are right - the government is an oppressive force representing the interests of the ruling class, and it should have its powers limited more than it already has.

What they fail to see is the use of the government as a tool against the ruling class, through popular mobilization to that effect in countries with some degree of democratic forms. Such programs are derided as corrupt and ineffective because of a fundamentalist viewpoint on government intervention.

Their theory is nice, and the overall thought behind their policy is more or less accurate, but the practical effect of Libertarian policy would be a sharp increase of the power of the ruling class through the elimination of popularly instituted barriers to its depradations. The other reforms they would enact - such as ending corporate welfare - would swiftly be reversed as the ruling class reasserted itself with its newfound power.