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Know Your Enemy

Anarcho-Capitalism in Argentina? (w/ David Adler) [TEASER]

Know Your Enemy

Matthew Sitman

Right Wing, National Review, History, Socialists, Reactionaries, Conservative Movement, Conservatism, News, Society & Culture, Ronald Reagan, Leftists Look At Conservatism, William F Buckley, Politics

4.71.8K Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2023

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

KYE Latin America correspondent David Adler returns to breakdown the (terrible) election results from Argentina.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Javier Milay combines these two very distinct components of his project and this party

0:07.6

La Libertadavansa, Liberty advances.

0:10.1

So one of them is the kind of Austrian libertarian tradition.

0:13.0

So this anarcho-capitalist markets solve everything approach.

0:17.8

Milay is very firm about this.

0:19.2

So whether it's selling children, whether it's selling organs, whether it's selling guns, whether it is health care, or whether it is education, or whether it is housing, markets should be solving these things, not the state.

0:31.0

Mile has said openly and repeatedly, the state. Milay has said openly and repeatedly the state is my enemy.

0:36.2

If I had to choose between the mafia and the state I would choose the mafia because at least they have a code.

0:41.2

So at least they have a way of managing the market where the state is arbitrary,

0:45.8

confiscatory, and inefficient is Milay's argument. I mean you see him on

0:50.5

television and he's screaming and wailing about the shithead leftist, these

0:55.0

shithead collectivists and how they'll rob you dry and how any collective effort is just theft

1:01.3

and they're going to kill you and the only way to reorganize

1:04.4

society is by completely dismantling taking this chainsaw to the state which has

1:08.9

been his primary campaign symbol and companion is this roaring chainsaw to say no we've got to basically

1:16.0

cut down this date not just to size but to nothing basically and privatize as he's

1:21.4

now confirmed his intention to do everything from the state

1:25.5

oil energy company to the state public broadcasters to schools and even the central bank.

1:30.8

But then there's always this backing, there's always this reference, there's always this

1:35.2

background portrait of the real, in Spanish we would call like, Puerto Rico, the real power, which is US power.

1:43.2

And so it's no coincidence that Milay, who rails against the central bank

1:48.3

for these libertarian reasons.

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