"We Need a Libertarian Che Guevara": Activist Starchild

"We need a libertarian Che Guevara," says libertarian activist Starchild, who makes a living as an erotic services provider.

Reason.tv's Tim Cavanaugh sat down with Starchild, who recently ran for San Francisco School Board as the Libertarian candidate, at the Libertopia 2010 conference in Hollywood. Their discussion covers topics such as the history of the libertarian movement, why San Francisco actually is a very libertarian city despite being named Reason.tv's Nanny of the Year, why libertarians need to look to groups such as the Black Panthers as models for political activism, and how Starchild managed to convert Tim Cavanaugh to libertarianism.

Approximately 9 minutes. Camera by Zach Weissmueller and Adam Hawk Jensen. Edited by Weissmueller.

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[sewbuttns]

I'm sorry I have to tell you this, but you should ban users who make comments on your videos advocating for murder of people based on their political beleifs.

[thirdshift47]

@thirdshift47 

[thirdshift47]

@hydin1

Crusades?

What the fuck?

Look,debunking your pseudo-history filtered through cold war propoganda would barely be a challenge for third-graders,much less grown ups with some sense.

But I agree;there were primarily rhetorical differences between the corporate radicalism of Stalin and Hitler's regimes.

[hydin1]

@thirdshift47 Wow, next you will start talking about the crusades. Yes the Communists and the Nazi's where socialists. I understand they didn't teach you this in class, it doesn't fit the meme propagated by your socialists professors. Most if not all of the differences between these two groups is semantics's only. If you believe there is some meaningful difference between the two you are correct at least on one point. The socialist propaganda works.

[thirdshift47]

@hydin1

If you want to speak of ideology & death then lets go back as far as the founding of the Americas & the for-profit ideology that thrived on brutal chattel slavery,indentured servitude,child labor,15 hour-a-day wage slavery,vassalage & the genocide of the indigenous people of those regions,much less what's followed since.

Secondly,anyone who actually believes that the Russian Communist Party & the Nazis were socialists are perfect success stories for those regimes propaganda campaigns.

[hydin1]

@thirdshift47 So let me see if I understand. Che can kill and murder in the name of revolution for Marxist communist doctrine, and thats OK. A philosophy that murdered around 150 million people this last century. The USA sending in the CIA to kill this guy is fascistic because you think so. you must not understand that Nazi are, where socialists. Not only should the CIA have killed him, they still should be killing communists in Latin America. Communist are like cockroaches. 

[thirdshift47]

@hydin1

Conflating Che with Hitler is beyond moronic.

Conflating the antidemocratic CIA that killed him with the stormtroopers--more like it.

[Mantis42]

I don't see how a philosophy that appeals mainly to rich firstworlders can have the same appeal that Che did to the poor. Maybe there's something heroic about cutting taxes for the top 1% and gutting services for the working class that I'm missing out on.

[StarchildSF]

@YutubeBlows - I have yet to see evidence you *have* a sense of humor (mean-spirited mockery ≠ humor) but no, SF is hardly a humorless place. Where else can you take part in an outdoor public pillow fight, or a marathon where people dressed as salmon run in the opposite direction as the crowd ("swim upstream")?

My run for school board, however, was serious. If you're not bigoted against sex workers, I retract any implication to the contrary. I just found your comment ironic, given your handle.

[YutubeBlows]

@StarchildSF lol wow Are you the guy in the video? It sure is a disappointment that Reason would interview someone so petty that they'd go into the comments section and distorts peoples words so that he can call them cowards and bigots. Obviously, being an erotic service provider doesn't offer any kind of experience or qualifications for serving on school board.

btw, if I go to San Francisco do I have to lose my sense of humor or does that will that just naturally erode over time?