Have you seen the new "home assistant" robot? Can't do shit, so to use it you need to let someone pilot it *inside your home*. The marketing is super shady, claims it is using "advanced AI", but the CEO is on camera saying it can't do shit when not remotely piloted.
A disordered reading of this is how we get to "plenty of average joes are Nazis". I swear these dumb mfs would be posting rainbow memes of Ernst Rohm noting his multi-demographic appeal
Yes, it's the defeatist rolling-over that is the *actual* existential threat. Some people will feel the ineluctable pull to kill their dad & fuck their mom just cause somebody said so, but I'm built different
But, as you say, the "min-archist" lense is generally how libertarianism is self-described among more general audiences, which would put them in the company of anarchists
racist thought from founders such as Friedrich Hayek and the conservative/supremacist think tanks and publications finding that market purism offered a seamless way to reentrench the status quo which white colonialism had established originally. I recommend Hayek's Bastards by Quinn Slobodian
There's an interesting history here. Murray Rothbard actually attempted to convince some libertarians to adopt the term "anarcho capitalism". I think this perspective arises from the adjacency of free market purists to conservative donors and white supremacist groups. A synthesis of genuinely
