Mieville incorrectly brands the Freedom Ship a libertarian phenomenon by conflating the Freedom Ship's advertising talking points with the tenets of libertarianism. No libertarian would give up privacy and personal mobility to join a floating coop with questionable legal status and an authoritarian social structure. In his argument against libertarianism Mieville has replaced the straw man with the straw boat. There is a nonzero percentage of corruption and error-making in every human organization. At its core, libertarian thinking in the United States recognizes that concentration of power at the federal level empowers and projects that percentage of damaging corruption exponentially. In …
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