The "Free Market" and Fake Libertarianism

There are some issues on which libertarian socialists and anarcho-capitalists (right-wing libertarians) can work together - like free speech, the illegitimacy of victimless crimes, and opposing regime change wars. But beyond that, the rationally inclined simply have to face the fact that so-called libertarians are loony tunes when they start talking about the "free market," which has about as much contact with reality as a masturbation fantasy. In the real world we have private monopoly control of essential social resources. Right wing libertarians are fine with that, asking only that "coercion" be cut out of the equation. But if I have enough money to buy the community water supply, I don't have to use coercion to subordinate others to my will. All I need do is build an impenetrable wall around the water, leaving everyone "free" to pay the extortionate prices I demand, or die of thirst. It's perfect liberty without coercion, paradise on earth. 

Furthermore, it should be obvious by now, a century after the U.S. public relations industry took on the task of mind control of the American people, that manipulation, not coercion, is how private tyranny perpetuates itself. Bombs and bullets have their uses, of course, but they are not the means by which we-the-people are held in bondage.

In short, limitless accumulation of capital is the central enemy, not "coercion." But don't expect "libertarians" to understand this. They can't.