The election victory of self-proclaimed anarcho-capitalist Javier Milei is being celebrated by right-wing libertarians around the world. This neoliberal extremism is successful because other ways of tackling the worsening crisis have failed – not just in Argentina.
Wait until they find out their policies don’t work
It’s just gonna be a testbed for the inevitable breakdown of democracy and regression into true neofeudalism.
The very few own all the things and the population will be reduced to modern age peasants, owning nothing and working for scraps in the economies owned by their rulers.
So basically as is now, just a bit more honest.
The U.S. can relate!
Those Argentinians who are not dependent on „money from the state“ are now „very happy“, Poschardt’s acquaintances have told him from Argentina.
Poschardt is not the only one who is impressed. Elon Musk also enthusiastically sharef the speeches of the new president of Argentina on his short message service X…
They work for the people they’re meant to work for.
It’s just a matter of time before a lady starts feeding bears from her back porch and the towns are overrun. You could make a bundle trading bear spray for other items that you eventually barter for things that other people have that you want assuming your barter goods have value to them.
Sounds like a real utopia.
You see, the problem you’re having with capitalism is that you didn’t capitalism hard enough. Just one less regulation bro, that’ll fix everything bro.
They work, for the rich not for the poor.
I’m going to wait until you go and read what has been happening in Argentina up to now…
I have done in fact, but thanks for waiting anyways. It’s a nightmare, but I don’t believe ‘Anarcho-Capitalist libertarianism’ is the correct answer.
The current presidents’ utopian ideology is not what is going to happen to the country though. It might become more similar to Chile or Uruguay or Paraguay, if his first mandate does not miserably fail. Whilst hopefully getting rid and enforcing rules for the future so that govt corruption and budget misuse can’t run as rampant as it currently can.
I hope you’re right. But the ideas of ancaps are going to do the exact opposite of preventing corruption and budget misuse. In fact it’s going to make it much easier. Since the amount of money that the government receives through taxation is not going to go down much, while many programs are being dismantled and privatised. Just textbook neoliberal stuff, the government is going to have to spend more money on privatised infrastructure while social programs, healthcare and education are squeezed. Or worse, privatised and only available when profitable.
Privatisation doesn’t get rid of corruption or budget misuse. It does place it outside of democratic control. If its the rules that need to be changed, there is absolutely no need for ancap ideology. If the rules aren’t helping now, dismantling the government isn’t going to change anything. They either need to be changed or enforced.
Anyway, I think it’s very predictable what policies he will steer towards and since there is an economical crisis, finding support for big austerity measures, isn’t going to be difficult, I assume.
