Should "Libertarian-ism" be called "Property-ism"?

Question

(1) Is seems that what Libertarianism (at least of the variety promoted most often by conservative Republicans) is really all about is the absolute right to retain private property, and the right to endeavor to gain property by engaging in free market business activity without government regulation or a very minimum of government regulation.

(2) In other words, it isn't the Liberty per se that Libertarians care about. It is the Property that they care about, Private Property and always more of it. Liberty for them is just a means to an end, the end being Private Property.

(3) Libertarians do what equal Liberty for all, but not equal Private Property for all. They want Private Property distribution to be very, very unequal, or as equal as it turns to be be (they want the "invisible hand" of the free market to decide this, not the hand of government). To me this shows that it is Property that they really care about. Liberty is simply a condition of society that they believe will enable themselves, a minority of the people, to attain and retain an ever greater amount of private property, and allow the majority of the people to forever live in squalor, desperation, and dependency on whatever job they may be able to get. Its like a group of very tall students proposing that the game of basketball be used to determine who gets the best food in lunch in the cafeteria at lunchtime. They claim to believe in the game of basketball, but its just a means to an end.

Answer 1

You miss the point of property ownership. It is only through property that any individual can advance himself if he wishes to do more than work for someone else. It is properly called the "labor theory" of property. Ownership depends on one's labor first, and so property becomes the symbol of one's right to work for one's self. All other rights come from this; but it comes from the "natural right" of self-ownership, which Locke and America's founders called "individual sovereignty".

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Answer 2

You have a very narrow view of it. Libertarians respect the right of private property, but that's not what it's all about.

Answer 3

It all has too do with Liberty and Rights of an individual too live to the best of their ability, without the conservatism of a controlling Government.

Answer 4

I think they call it Libertarian-ism because that sounds better than Property-ism. It's a PR move.

Answer 5

no libertarianism is about the government not being involved in your life and making decisions for you because they "know better"

Answer 6

no

Answer 7

No.