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I don't like these categories but while we are playing this game:

Aren't libertarians also globalists?



The current global trade (non-software) relies on security provided by US Navy. Global Trade is not Free Trade! You need a security under-writer for it. I think Libertarians have a "blind-spot" there.


I'm not sure about that, unless you're conflating libertarians with anarcho-capitalists. Minarchist libertarians would actually consider that making free trade possible through military might is in the purview of the state.


You may be right, but what is libertarian idea of maritime trade in hostile world and how would a free market established in such circumstances.

(I am not asking for full answer.. you can point me books or links)


You might want to check out what the US Navy did to the pirates.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbary_pirates#18th.E2.80.931...


You are saying that the minarchist Night Watchman State will have 10 carrier strike groups? I don't think that word means what you think it means.


If that's what's required to ensure the freedom of the Night Watchman State citizens, sure.


If you're a Libertarian and you believe spurring on global trade strengthens the right to property and disrupts governments from legislating moral imperatives, then you might be a globalist. Being neutral to OK with globalism is not the same thing as being a globalist.


I just think of a globalist as believing in free trade and immigration. Surely a position that a libertarian would support.


I would say yes, take away national governments and you empower multinationals to essentially turn the world into their corporate serfs, with the rule if law gone corporation's are free to impose their own rules without any vote by the people on the matter.


yes, right wing libertarians are globalists, and anarchocapitalist.




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