Nonsense. What the heck does Darwinism have to do with fascism? That is just the Bible apologists trying to justify their claim evolution theory would result in X but we have Y so evolution is false. It's totally a straw man.
Darwinism was bastardized by the Nazis (modern neo-Nazis included) as a justification for the wholesale slaughter of what they considered to be "lesser" races, i.e. those less fit to survive.
[admitted oversimplification] But put Libertarian views into practice and you actually get greedy people acting to defraud others if there is no regulation to stop them. Because there are enough people with a greedy nature that the Libertarian model fails.
Enough people? Everyone is greedy. Think about how many times per day you have to defraud people. How often do you do it? You would be surprised by the amount of business transactions that occur without contracts, the operate purely on the trust of the other party because everyone recognizes that goodwill is very valuable. People will do what's in their self-interest though, the secret is that most people realize its not in their best interests to screw people over all the time.
For example, the market forces are distorted by advertising. You don't get the best product as long as the people selling the crummy product can get people to buy stuff based on false or misleading advertising. So how does the Libertarian model deal with that? Not well.
The Libertarian model doesn't say that there shouldn't be anyone verifying the claims of companies, they just think that it doesn't need to be the government doing it. There are plenty of consumer advocacy groups in this country.
Shermer argues in his latest book along with a few other Libertarians that monopolies are inefficient and the market forces will take care of them on their own.
Monopolies actually are inefficient, should you look at the graphs a monopolistic market. Its impossible for a monopoly to operate without creating deadweight loss. A good example of market forces breaking up a monopoly is US Steel which controlled over 2/3 of the market in 1911 when the government tried to break it up, claiming it violated Anti-Trust law for being a monopoly. US Steel won the case, but were eventually out-competed. Today they produce less than 10% of the steel in this country.
But if you look around today, you see that the only true monopolies in place are those put into place BY THE GOVERNMENT.
But what that leaves out of the equation is concentration of wealth. That is not the same as monopolies. The way the 'market forces' correct concentrated wealth is with violent overthrow. That is what has happened time and time again in history.
This is ridiculous. It's not the having of wealth that matters, its how you got it that can lead to violent overthrow. If you're a hereditary monarch who taxes working people to death so you can build palaces for yourself, you're going to cause resentment.
Why does the communist economic system fail? One, because it requires a lot of control and human nature again is that power corrupts. Another reason is human nature is less motivated with the reward system of 'to each according to need'. [/admitted oversimplification]
Partially. I think mostly it has to do with the fact that it leads to dictators in the large scale for a very simple reason. When you concentrate the needs of a large group of people into the hands of the few, when you tell them a small group of people at the national level can take care of providing them with food, electricity, water, transportation, medicine, education and every other individual need, you have centralized power. If you're an individual sitting at the head of this government and you have control over what the people need to survive, that's a level of power that's very hard to walk away from.
Ever heard of a guy who's last name is "von Miese"? The description sounds like him, although I don't know much about von Miese either.
