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Fojar38 posted:Can someone explain to me the difference between Libertarianism and Communism because both seem to have an endgame consisting of "and then everyone is nice to each other and no more state is needed." Perhaps the journey is the destination. Communists generally believe that the purpose of the state is to generate the material conditions for a post scarcity society and eliminate the frictional barriers between the economic and social relationship of people, especially as it pertains to labor product and property. It is believed that once this is achieved, a state is no longer needed to generate the material conditions: a true post scarcity society would not need institutional systems that exist to apportion scarce resources amongst a population. As a collectivist ideology, the state would be used to encourage and promote understanding of the strength of the commons and the failure of individualism to address social necessities, thus even a post scarcity society would still understand the need to provide and care for those who cannot do so themselves. Libertarianism (or more correctly, the current big 'L' right libertarianism) believes in the immediate and systematic dismantling of the state as it is already unnecessary and was never necessary. It believes in the natural (laissez faire capitalism / individualist) market/economic social relationship as a guiding force for providing structurally equitable and meritocratic distribution of scarce resources. wealth, and power. It requires deontological adherence to a moralistic belief in the natural state and natural laws that govern human behavior, and is inherently an individualistic ideology (as opposed to left libertarianism and anarchism which believe in the abolition of the state through a society guided by collectivist struggle for survival, more akin to communism). Again, there is no appeal to inherent altruism, it is a reliance on the ultimate rule of rationality.
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