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>Please educate yourself about the history of successful social movements like labor rights, civil rights, environmental protection, etc. Given that the curren
by ataggart 13y ago
>Please educate yourself about the history of successful social movements like labor rights, civil rights, environmental protection, etc.
Given that the current context involves opposing government power, I'm not sure labour rights and environmental protection are relevant examples; both resulted in massive expansion of the effective scope government power.
Civil rights would perhaps be a slightly better example simply because what was being fought against were largely government creations (e.g., legally compulsory discrimination). And even then the civil rights movement had a visible violent side[1].
[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/Libertarian/comments/1ds5fa/a_march_on_washington_with_loaded_rifles/c9tg5ax http://www.reddit.com/r/Libertarian/comments/1ds5fa/a_march_...
- pdonis 13y agoCivil rights would perhaps be a slightly better example simply because what was being fought against were largely government creations (e.g., legally compulsory discrimination). And the "solution" was to exchange these for other government creations, like the EEOC. Which on net resulted in a massive expansion of the effective scope of government power (not least because many of the previous government creations were at the state level, but what we have now is mostly federal).