Thread by @RodericDay

If anyone wants to know why this "libertarian socialist" position is completely worthless and entirely sustained by the CIA's anti-communist propaganda programs, hmu

https://twitter.com/SocialistMMA/status/1332391878113845249

big figures in "libertarian socialism" (and all of its other names like "anarcho communism" and "democratic socialism" and whatnot) include Orwell, who was a rapist snitch cop:

https://twitter.com/RodericDay/status/1332382306649202688

there's also Noam Chomsky, who doesn't understand Marx, thought there was no torture at Guantanamo Bay, thinks the NYT is the best paper in the world, the USA is the best country in the world, and told everyone to vote for Bloomberg

https://twitter.com/RodericDay/status/1245342770547564544

there's also Nathan J. Robinson, often referred to as "Socialist Austin Powers" or "Plantation Riddler", who is a font of amazing takes like "it would've been better for socialism had Marx never been born" and "Elizabeth Warren's Excellent Ideas"

https://twitter.com/normalohioguy/status/1255479378479403009

There's five excellent essays I recommend to anyone who really wants to understand how worthless and damaging "libertarian socialism" is. If you read the five, it's like a vaccine shot.

1/5
"Tankies" by @TomFrome
redsails.org/tankies/

2/5
"The Revolution Will Not Be Televised... Nor Brought To You By Noam Chomsky" by @GowansStephen

https://twitter.com/RodericDay/status/1247950742494855168

3/5
"Western Marxism, the Fetish for Defeat, and Christian Culture" by @_makavelijones
redsails.org/western-marxis…

4/5
"White Supremacy and Magic Paper" by Tarzie

https://twitter.com/RodericDay/status/1247950556498481157

and last but not least

5/5
"Left Anticommunism: The Unkindest Cut" by Michael Parenti

https://twitter.com/RodericDay/status/1247950412289900545

Read these five and you'll be able to see *right through* peddlers of "libertarian socialist" snake oil.

Idealists selling fantasies of anarchic collaboration reveal themselves as western chauvinists insisting on moral superiority over revolutionaries in the "global south".

Another great example of a libertarian "mask drop" is Murray Bookchin, who openly and enthusiastically told Reason Magazine he'd side with ancaps over any Marxists.

https://twitter.com/m_i_c_h_i_c/status/1332431930520981509

To be clear: this has *nothing* to do with banning or not banning.

The only person who framed it in terms of "banning" was the "libertarian socialist".

Any "banning" attempted by our existing society would be inhumane and enforced by abusive pigs.

What I am targeting here is the gleeful, orgasmic pride experienced by those identifying as "anti-authoritarian", who sound indistinguishable from right-libertarian think-tankers when they taunt those who want to abolish "the sex work industry" with a flippant "let it be, maan"

in other words: the way the abolitionist expresses himself there is fairly disagreeable

but the way the "libsoc" reacts so gleefully to the opportunity to assert his moral superiority, while advocating for *nothing* but the status-quo, was too exemplary to pass up