"Libertarian ideas are revolutionary. I've been told that Trotsky once said "Every revolutionary should study chess." The best book on chess that Libertarians

"Libertarian ideas are revolutionary. I've been told that Trotsky once said "Every revolutionary should study chess." The best book on chess that Libertarians should read is The Wrecking Crew by Thomas Frank, which left me certain after many years that I was absolutely no Libertarian, and more than that, embarrassed to have ever been one." What a clown. Libertarians are not revolutionary. Second, that book has nothing to do with chess, and Trotsky's quote was literal. This doesn't even warrant a rebuttal, but I'll continue. "Republican Presidents and legislators use Libertarian arguments to advance policy decisions which benefit business, then conveniently forget those same arguments when it comes to issues of government debt or unnecessary military spending." Republicans and Libertarians share certain conservative values. For what it's worth, one point of libertarianism is that the government's first job is national defense. Ugh, this stuff is awful. "If politics were chess, Libertarians would be trying to win by holding up the pawn, saying "my pawn has a machine gun!", and making little pew-pew noises. It just doesn't work that way." Politics is not chess. The writer's introductory quote associates revolution with chess. The writer may want to use an outline next time. Here's a summary: The government uses Libertarian arguments for purported corrupt scheming between itself and big business. Thus, Libertarianism as a political ideology is, according to the writer's ham-handed "arguments," flawed. I want my three minutes back; I could've made toast.