The election victory of self-proclaimed anarcho-capitalist Javier Milei is being celebrated by right-wing libertarians around the world. This neoliberal extremism is successful because other ways of tackling the worsening crisis have failed – not just in Argentina.
I’m going to wait until you go and read what has been happening in Argentina up to now…
I have done in fact, but thanks for waiting anyways. It’s a nightmare, but I don’t believe ‘Anarcho-Capitalist libertarianism’ is the correct answer.
The current presidents’ utopian ideology is not what is going to happen to the country though. It might become more similar to Chile or Uruguay or Paraguay, if his first mandate does not miserably fail. Whilst hopefully getting rid and enforcing rules for the future so that govt corruption and budget misuse can’t run as rampant as it currently can.
I hope you’re right. But the ideas of ancaps are going to do the exact opposite of preventing corruption and budget misuse. In fact it’s going to make it much easier. Since the amount of money that the government receives through taxation is not going to go down much, while many programs are being dismantled and privatised. Just textbook neoliberal stuff, the government is going to have to spend more money on privatised infrastructure while social programs, healthcare and education are squeezed. Or worse, privatised and only available when profitable.
Privatisation doesn’t get rid of corruption or budget misuse. It does place it outside of democratic control. If its the rules that need to be changed, there is absolutely no need for ancap ideology. If the rules aren’t helping now, dismantling the government isn’t going to change anything. They either need to be changed or enforced.
Anyway, I think it’s very predictable what policies he will steer towards and since there is an economical crisis, finding support for big austerity measures, isn’t going to be difficult, I assume.