There’s a fun game you can play with Libertarians. In the first part of the Communist Manifesto, the Bourgeois are the heros. They wrestled control away from hereditary systems where there was little to no chance a person born in the wrong family would be able to rise the class ranks. In fact, that process was still ongoing for much of Europe during Marx’s lifetime. To Marx, this was an important step along the way to abolishing class altogether.
When Libertarians talk about “classical liberals”, those are the exact people they’re talking about. So what you can do is pull quotes directly out of the Manifesto and they will agree wholeheartedly.
There’s a fun game you can play with Libertarians. In the first part of the Communist Manifesto, the Bourgeois are the heros. They wrestled control away from hereditary systems where there was little to no chance a person born in the wrong family would be able to rise the class ranks. In fact, that process was still ongoing for much of Europe during Marx’s lifetime. To Marx, this was an important step along the way to abolishing class altogether.
When Libertarians talk about “classical liberals”, those are the exact people they’re talking about. So what you can do is pull quotes directly out of the Manifesto and they will agree wholeheartedly.