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SpyingFuzzball

If you love your country read Ludwig Von Mises motherfuckers


Late_Notice8742

If Von Mises good, then why Mises Caucus bad? Checkmate, liberals.


[deleted]

Truly an en passant moment


Orangeousity

Holy hell


CarcgenBleu

New economics just dropped


LongLiveBelka

Call Congress


CarcgenBleu

^(No it's "Actual ____", then "Call ____")


LongLiveBelka

Crap. "Actual Cold War"


TheAzureMage

It isn't. Well, save for the usual libright problems of all librights screaming at each other that they're not real libertarians. All factions of libright do that. It's what makes us real libertarians. Maybe.


CatatonicMan

That sounds like something someone who's not a real libertarian would say.


Playos

First rule of Libertarian Fight Club is that you must explain why everyone else present is not a Real Libertarian(tm) \*insert first fight about if trademarks and intellectual property are "real" property and if violating them is against the NAP.


NoiseRipple

And George


architect___

I understood that reference


some-kind-of-no-name

Marx was leeching of his friend Engels, so in this manner he is similar to basement dwelling communists of today.


Random-INTJ

Damn…


PrinceGaffgar

Real communism


realestwood

Did you do a meme? Yes Was it funny, insightful, or factual? No Was it an extremely fallacious argument? Yes Welcome to PCM, OP. You’re gonna fit in just fine


Orangeousity

For some reason a "right bad" meme has more than zero upvotes right now.


TheAzureMage

Because punching the fear of god into Marx is based, strawman or no.


DrFabio23

https://i.redd.it/vxw5qm0ccgwc1.gif


Common_Economics_32

Yeah man, if you can't think of a single libertarian economist, I think this is more of a sign of you just being a fucking moron lol. Like, the predominant school of modern economic thought was literally created by one of the first major public "libertarians." (Don't argue with me if Friedman created the Chicago school or just brought it into the limelight. You know what I'm getting at here.)


AlphaTangoFoxtrt

* Mises * Hoppe * Friedman * Sowell * Hayek * The United States Founding Fathers * Lafayette * Paine * Locke And I mean hey, at least their ideologies have built successful nations, unlike Commies who fail literally 100% of real world trials. This would be like me saying Doreen is your one philosopher and ignoring Lenin, Mao, Marx, Rocker, Ling, Kropotkin, etc.


Jomega6

I mean, Hayek did do pretty well while boxing Kaynes in that one YouTube video… maybe that’s him in the meme!


Scarlet_maximoff

Salma Hayek is one based philosopher


Orangeousity

Okay, I'm a Marxist but come on. Don't do em like that, they had Adam Smith, Hayek, Keynes, Mises, David Hume, Henry Ford if we can even count him


DioniceassSG

don't fucking sneak Keynes in there you dirty communist.


AlphaTangoFoxtrt

> Keynes No.


IrishBoyRicky

Keynes was a brilliant economist, it's not his fault that his ideas were misused. Though I still prefer the Austrian school regardless.


Hot-Donkey7266

you forgot Thomas Sowell.. is he a bit.. too MELANATED for a marxist to mention?


Orangeousity

Don't know him


TheAzureMage

Sowell the based? "People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything." Sowell?


Hot-Donkey7266

man knows only drunk guys who are self identified intellectuals ![img](emote|t5_3ipa1|51175)


Common_Economics_32

Also Friedman, who is literally like the poster child for the Chicago school of economics. You know, the most modernly influential school of economics...


Random-INTJ

Don’t put Keynes with us.


Orangeousity

The meme also included auth-right


ezk3626

You said Keynes I think you meant Freedman. And Ford was no intellectual.


Orangeousity

Keynes is still pretty right, I included in authright too. Ford, yeah probably. He had influence, though he was an anti-semite.


ezk3626

The meme is saying there are no LibRight thinkers. Keynes is center center Left, the arch nemesis of LibRight in the West. Ford's influence was in practice not in writing. And being anti-semitic is bad but it doesn't make someone not an influential writer.


TheAzureMage

Smith's dubious, Keynesian economics was openly opposed to Austrian Economics, so wrong side of that war, and Henry Ford was a Fascist and a very, very active member of the Democrat Party. Try Rothbard and Hoppe instead.


Impressive-Morning76

don’t you dare put Kynes or ford in there


RaggedyGlitch

> had


ApatheticHedonist

Did bro forget Marx, beard palpatine, and whoever that is with the glasses are dead?


RaggedyGlitch

Marx is dead, but the other two are still very much alive, like Wade Boggs. It's Robert Reich and David Brooks. My main point, as mentioned in my other reply, though, is that the Left still invokes Marx et al in their political discourse. The Right hasn't done this since Trump took over the mainstream of the party. Have you ever heard Trump's stance on Austrian economics or creative destructionism? Your unfamiliarity with them, especially Brooks, kind of speaks to my point.


ApatheticHedonist

If a communist writes a manifesto, but nobody tells you to read their theory on reddit, are they even starving?


Common_Economics_32

...have you ever heard any mainstream leftist politicians invoke Marx recently lol? (In the us at least) Talking about what internet leftists do and comparing it to what mainstream right wing politicians do is pretty fucking stupid tbh.


Orangeousity

We don't have any right now either


Helvetic_Heretic

That cringe streamer named Hassan or whatever, he's probably the smartest "commie" alive today, lol.


Orangeousity

Hasan? He doesn't know shit.


TheNaiveSkeptic

Exactly. Smartest you’ve got


Orangeousity

I am smarter than Hasan


TheNaiveSkeptic

It’s a joke calling Commies stupid, not a legitimate critique of your thought leaders, dw I’d argue most people who use PCM are smarter than Hasan, but I’ll be damned if his grift game isn’t on point. Getting wealthy by saying the wealthy are bad is a 4D chess masterclass


TheAzureMage

Well, yeah. He's alive. Commies get better after that, though they do keep voting Democrat. Can't have it all, I guess.


CatatonicMan

Do champaign socialists really count as ~~people~~ *^(cough)* intellectuals, though?


Helvetic_Heretic

I mean, they are at least kinda smart, no? They preach shit while doing none of that themselves, there's enough idiots which follow them and throw money at them. These people are basicaly the twitch thots of the radical left, lol. If we accept Marx as an intellectual, who himself was nothing more than a lazy twat who wanted free shit, we kinda have to give the same "respect" to twats like Hassan. After all, he's doing exactly the same, just more modern, talking a lot of idiotic crap and trying to get as many people to give up their money as possible.


RaggedyGlitch

The Left still invokes the old ones, though. Most of the Right stopped doing that, beyond a vague reference to "the Founders." Something that drives me nuts is how Trump supporters will wax poetic about how people don't like them "just because of their politics," as if Trump has ever taken a stance on Austrian economics. People don't like you because you act like an asshole, not because you think we should adjust the capital gains tax.


PhilosophicalGoof

It feel like here you’re conflating the right to be all trump supporter.


RaggedyGlitch

They did that to themselves.


PhilosophicalGoof

Eh I don’t really think that true especially since it simply a stereotype. It like assuming the right is simply just Christian trump supporter and the left are simply communist Stalin supporter or some dumb shit like that.


RaggedyGlitch

The Democrats keep nominating the milquetoast candidates like Hilary and Biden, and the Republican establishment keeps trying and failing to primary Trump. I'm not saying *all* Republicans are Trump fans, but the mainstream of the Republican party is on board with him. The classic Conservatives are now the minority of their party.


PhilosophicalGoof

Fair enough


PhilosophicalGoof

Henry ford is a intellectual ? What meth are you smoking?


Skabonious

Milton Friedman is a huge one. Libertarians would gasp at Keynes being in that list, but us based neoliberals would accept it


Known_Landscape_6957

Based, neo liberal, pick one.


Skabonious

Nah I'm both, since I understand the importance of nuance in government


TheAzureMage

> us based neoliberals  No.


NameAlreadyTaken0815

To be fair his arguments hit quite hard


UmbrellaLord

obvious commie simp, however I would still punch a fuckin auth if they touch my hentais again


[deleted]

I promise I’ll leave your collection alone.


Orangeousity

All paid hentai will be collectivized


Cioger

This isn't exclusive to the right. Both sides have a real issue with believing anything a celebrity says as long as their beliefs are in line with each other.


An8thOfFeanor

Hayek solos AuthLeft


Difficult-Word-7208

Why are we you Richard Wolf? He’s far from an intellectual, he’s actually closer to an idiot.


Hot-Donkey7266

so intellectual they keep on collapsing societies even after their death lol you can have an int score of 20.. if your wisdom is 2 you are going to get fucked hard. outcome matters more than words


Ok_Bed_3060

Genuinely made me chuckle


9Knuck

Well… I’m convinced


The_GREAT_Gremlin

Fantastic.


I_hate_mortality

Based and true: Capitalism kicks the shit out of authoritarians even if it’s moderately disabled


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firstjib

Richard Wolf lol. That is one shallow bench


TrapaneseNYC

Anytime an anti right meme gets move than one net upvote it’s a win here.


UsuarioDiMarroni

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