That’s what socialist Sherry Wolf resorts to calling libertarianism to stem the exodus of anti-War leftists from the Kucinich and Obama campaigns over to the Ron Paul. She also opposes Paul because he believes in individual rights. Via CounterPunch:
Libertarians, using pseudo-iconoclastic logic, transform this comical send-up of religious conformity into their own secular dogma in which we are all just atomized beings. “Only an individual has rights,” not groups such as workers, Blacks, gays, women, and minorities, Ron Paul argues. True, we are all individuals, but we didn’t just bump into one another. Human beings by nature are social beings who live in a collective, a society. Under capitalism, society is broken down into classes in which some individuals-bosses, for example-wield considerably more power than others-workers.
If this is what the Left has to resort to in order to keep the troops firmly behind the Hillary-Obama-Edwards trinity of imperialism, statism, and collectivism, they’re going to have serious problems turning out the vote in the general election — especially when they’re running against Ron Paul.
