| National Libertarian- an oxymoron?: 6/22/2016 14:13:39 |
Tchaikovsky Reborn
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My friend recently dubbed something he called National Libertarians- in other words, the key tenets of libertarians with some nationalism mixed in.
And I seemed to agree with this new idea.
However, another friend said it was oxymoronic. Your thoughts?
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| National Libertarian- an oxymoron?: 6/22/2016 16:51:42 |
GeneralPE
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If it is just nationalism, it's fine. If it is nationalized in terms of government control of stuff, it's oxymoronic
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| National Libertarian- an oxymoron?: 6/22/2016 16:52:59 |
Tchaikovsky Reborn
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nationalism, not government control.
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| National Libertarian- an oxymoron?: 6/22/2016 18:36:36 |
Radical Traditionalist
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its not an oxymoron.
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| National Libertarian- an oxymoron?: 6/22/2016 19:36:32 |
Zoya the Destroya 
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What was your friends explanation for why it's an oxymoron?
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| National Libertarian- an oxymoron?: 6/22/2016 20:43:28 |
Tchaikovsky Reborn
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He said
"Libertarians want the government to not be involved in their lives. If nationalism unites, wouldn't it be contradictory?"
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| National Libertarian- an oxymoron?: 6/22/2016 20:49:15 |
Жұқтыру
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Nationalism is just a kind of supremacism. It's often very much upheld by government, but it doesn't have to be.
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| National Libertarian- an oxymoron?: 6/22/2016 21:23:18 |
Radical Traditionalist
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Nationalism has nothing to do with economics.
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| National Libertarian- an oxymoron?: 6/23/2016 01:31:04 |
Zoya the Destroya
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I don't think it's an oxymon. Libertarian-socialism is more of an oxymoron but only semantically. It used to only be known as "libertarianism" but then libertarianism got rebranded (esp. in the U.S.) to mean something very different.
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