Libertarian John Coleman, writing in Liberty, tries to set paleocon Robert Locke straight. Locke recently called libertarianism, "Marxism of the Right." Coleman thinks Locke's reasoning deficient.
Locke's fundamental flaw in attacking what he defined as libertarianism lay in his understanding of both Marxism and libertarianism. One is an ideology, the other an anti-ideology. The distinction can be seen in analyzing the definition of ideology laid out in Peter Lawler's more thoughtful criticism of libertarianism and materialism, "Communism Today": "The name rightly given to specifically modern lies is ideologies. An ideology is a form of popular science, and so not a form of real science. It is a comprehensive and easy to understand account of all that exists. Ideologies are dogmas that fill the vacuum created by the discrediting of religious dogma . . .
[They] are never personal; we aren't controlled by persons but forces รข€” such as history or material forces or the economy or technology. . . [They] make us all seem more soulless and less truly free than we really are."
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