Commentary from the liberterrain…
An LA Times article reports on the growing public outrage against the privileges of the ChiCom ruling elite in the politically communist but economically statist/corporatist People's Republic of China.
(ChiCom, for younger readers, is retro Cold War coinage for "Chinese Communist.")
The outrage is focused on the "corruption on wheels" displayed openly by Communist Party powercrats seen cruising the streets of Beijing in "luxe wheels" like a $560,000 Bentley, a $330,000 Maserati, and "more than 100,000 Audi A6s" costing between $50,000 and $100,000 apiece.
"Angry Chinese," says the article, "have started posting photos" online.
This comes as no surprise to libertarians.
Every society based on a hierarchical political structure that imposes rules by some on others ipso facto has a ruling class to do the imposing, and whatever that ruling class may be – socialist, fascist, communist, progressive, conservative, Democrat, Republican – will be just as corrupt as every other ruling class throughout history.
That's why it's almost humorous to listen to "the left" – liberals, progressives, socialists – talk about how their political philosophy would produce equality, fairness and justice if only their government ruling thugs would impose "social welfare" and "redistribution of wealth" and "group rights" on everyone else.
And it's equally guffaw-producing to imagine that the dogma of "the right" – conservatives, neocons, fundamentalists – would produce freedom, right-mindedness and morality if only their government ruling thugs would impose their copyrighted definitions of "family" and "God" and "patriotism" on everyone else.
None of those belief systems will produce any such thing because they all come from the same coercion-based gingerbread man cookie cutter; only the color of their frosting is different.
America's legal system today, and any other legal system under a ruling elite, is just a big game contrived by the elitists to benefit themselves, but the game is played with real people's lives rather than with chess pieces or online gaming avatars.
Libertarianism is the un-politics. It recognizes everyone's right to pursue one's own interests as long as that pursuit doesn't interfere with the interests of others through coercion, intimidation or fraud.
And that means even hierarchical structures are acceptable as long as they're entered into voluntarily by all concerned.
If some people in a voluntary non-coercive free market society want to spend an honestly earned $560,000 for a pimped-out land yacht, and others choose to build and sell it to them, it's nobody else's business.
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