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Originally Posted by ikalugin
Makes a thought full face.
Maybe the reason why majority does not take libertarian views seriously is not because of some grand keynesian conspiracy, but because the theories supporting those views are by large unscientific?
That would certainly be the simpler way to explain things I think.
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Bingo! It's the same as when we are talking about historic materialism, also an ideology-based theory their followers saw as an accurate, scientific explaination for everything. It also makes sense when you compare Marx and Hayek: both are still regarded among economists for their analyses; not for the philosophies which derived from them.
Although I still refuse to use the term libertarian for the proponents of the "the market will solve all our problems"-crowd. Especially when regarding your location, I think in our historic tradition, libertarianism has much more to do with Bakunin or Makhno, than with Ron Paul or Mises.