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The Philosopher Behind the Project 2025-Trump Regime
The Karl Marx of Libertarianism
The Libertarian Manifesto (more or less)
A specter is haunting America— the specter of Libertarianism. All the Powers of Government have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this specter.
The Libertarians disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions. Let the working classes tremble at a Libertarian revolution. The capitalists have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.
RICH PEOPLE OF AMERICA UNITE!
Is my parody too hyperbolic? Sadly, no. We can see this extreme attitude in today’s tech bros such as Elon Musk and Peter Thiel. We can also see this specter and revolution being enacted into literal law by the new presidential regime’s Project 2025 agenda.
The new Washington regime is a right-wing takeover of a government and a nation. Specifically, the takeover was planned by the Libertarian Heritage Foundation, a plan the seeds of of which began in the early 1970s. The Heritage Foundation is the primary force behind Project 2025.
(Portions of this article are taken from my philosophy textbook: How We Are and How We Got Here.)
Most people have heard of Project 2025, but few people know of the philosopher who helped inspire and shape this Libertarian movement. American Robert Nozick (1938–2002), was a revolutionary in the true sense of the word. Like Karl Marx, Nozick tried not to describe society but to change it. Nozick sought to transform the understanding of freedom and the individual within the state. He was right only in the sense of being right wing. His understanding of the nature of freedom and what it means to be a person in community is fundamentally incorrect.
