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His twitter feed is very libertarian and Austrian economics themed. That doesn’t surprise me at all, should it?
by svd4anything 6y ago
His twitter feed is very libertarian and Austrian economics themed. That doesn’t surprise me at all, should it?
- CydeWeys 6y agoHe says he hopes it isn't him, not that it lends evidence against it.
- svd4anything 6y agoI understand but that’s a strange hope a bit based on his twitter bring too right-wing or libertarian than he would prefer, yet those beliefs are actually very consistent with a lot of Satoshi’s known leanings and beliefs. The block zero comment is pretty libertarian for example and many of his comments on email lists are also. So it’s a bit illogical for the OP to hope for otherwise.
- mhluongo 6y agoI'm a libertarian Bitcoiner myself, and I hope it's not Szabo. You can be right libertarian without being a xenophobe or an outright racist.
- svd4anything 6y agoI guess I missed the xenophobia and racism in his twitter feed. That wouldn’t surprise me however I’m just not sure what you are referring to specifically.
- someguydave 6y agoyou can also be right libertarian without demeaning others with modern-day heresy accusations
- seibelj 6y agoExpecting Satoshi not to be libertarian is like expecting Karl Marx not to be socialist. Satoshi devoted his life to creating uncensorable money outside of government control!
- nix23 6y ago>Karl Marx not to be socialist He was not a socialist, he was a Marxist. It's like expecting that Windows and Linux are Operating-systems and by that completely the same.
- orhmeh09 6y agoOn what basis are you making this claim? Karl Marx often called himself a socialist but he explicitly denied being a Marxist.
- api 6y agoFascism != libertarianism It mystifies me how /pol ideology gets called libertarian. I remember when words meant things.
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- drngdds 6y agoLibertarian? He has the Blue Lives Matter flag as his header.
- adventured 6y agoIn the 1970s there were lots of libertarians that were marxists or socialists, they saw no conflict in the terms because libertarian is such a loosely defined term that it can encompass almost anything you care to stuff into it. Even today libertarianism has no strict prescription, the political movement takes all manner of refugee into it. In discussions I routinely run across libertarians that believe in fully functional centralized government judicial and policing systems; on the flip side, I also run across libertarians that are more of the anarchy wing and believe in private police systems. What does liberty mean to you? That's all libertarianism actually is, and that has always plagued the movement. If forcibly implemented marxism means liberty or freedom to you, good enough, you can call yourself a libertarian now if you see fit. The Hayek wing will always disagree with that, however their disagreement is also entirely irrelevant as they don't have much control over the term or the movement.
- jahaja 6y agoWell, that shouldn't be that surprising since the term was Socialist in its beginning before the current US right-wing tendencies co-opted it to mean Propertarianism.