Naomi Klein has written a new column on the same subject as always. In short, free markets are bad and libertarians are evil. The column is as dull as everything else this professional underdog multimillionaire from Canada produces, but the reader comments are fascinating. Someone called Baat writes my favourite:

As an anarchist, I find libertarians to be very offensive—the word seems to mean [according to their mewlings] 'anarchist capitalist', but this is clearly oxymoronic as 'capitalist' is a synonym for slave-owner. And then there's added Republican, which is a polite way of saying PIG. So, licentious, narcissistic, slave owning pig.

Of course, Baat is right. An anarchist society without legal protection of self-ownership would be so much better than the libertarian hell produced by property rights being upheld. Imagine how great it would be if anyone could steal from anyone else at any given time. You wake up after a day of doing nothing and see that your neighbour has built a new garage. If you feel jealous, you could just kick his head in and use the garage for the car you nicked from your other neighbour the day before. La propriété, c'est le vol! A perfect utopia, don't you think?

Nah, I prefer being a libertarian pig.

Postscript: Please note the ironic tone in my comment on anarchism. I'm not saying that it would be a good thing to allow stealing and violence. At least one reader seems to have misunderstood my sarcasm.