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I would simply argue as to where that line between "private" and "public" is rather grey. Unions which arise in the private sector lobby the state for protectionism and crony power, which I find to no longer be a private action. For example, Walter Williams details in his book, The State Against Blacks, that multiple private sector unions from different industries and professions lobbied the state for minimum wage and occupational licensing, often to price out blacks and latinos from the labor market. Lets also not forget that private sector unions employ thuggery, for example, the use of violence against "scabs" or vandalizing the facility.
As a libertarian, I have absolutely no problem with organizations of employees banding together to pressure their employer to divvy out certain benefits, but the more I learn about unions, the less I find them to be in line with property rights and the use of violence against people interacting in voluntary exchanges.

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As a left libertarian who became a leftist because I was a utilitarian consequantialist, I 100 percent agree with you. Too many "free market" economists are apologists for global neoliberal crony capitalism, as seen by their defense of austerity, financial "deregulation," wage slavery at walmart, rising CO2 levels, WTO-IMF privatization's in the third world, outsourcing, downsizing, high health care prices, wealth inequality, etc. and their assumption that these are the result of free markets (think Alan Reynolds, Hubbard, Sowell, Vedder, Laffer, Stossel, Stephen Moore, and supply side beltwaytarians who work at big corporate funded policy institutes). On the flip side, anti globalization leftists like Naomi Klein and David Korten blame corporate power on the free market, thanks to corporatist neoliberals labeling themselves as libertarians, and embrace top down welfare socialism or nationalism as the solution. Totalitarian neoliberal corporatism is as evil as totalitarian socialism. Crushing poverty, wealth inequality, and low wages are the result of an economy that has been centrally planned to benefit a one percent of state connected elites who loot the lower classes through regulations that destroy small businesses, enormous subsidies, IP laws, foreign aid, etc. Libertarians must portray themselves as consequentialists and emphasize how the state breaks the leg of the poor, not the state providing the poor a crutch.

http://www.anti-state.com/preston/preston5.html

http://www.cepr.net/index.php/publications/books/the-end-of-loser-liberalism

http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2013/04/the_grave_evil.html

http://www.amazon.com/State-Against-Blacks-Walter-Williams/dp/0070703787

http://www.amazon.com/Excluded-Americans-Homelessness-Housing-Policies/dp/0895265516

http://www.themoneyillusion.com/?p=18644

Libertarians should embrace a populist class war message of small businessmen and individuals fighting state subsidized corporations and bearucracies, and we should emphasize how the 99 percent of taxpayers, consumers, and workers are being oppresed by a one percent of politicians and corporate oligarchs.

This is why people hate libertarians. Why must we always reject society and revel in being outcasts. Why do we allow idiot faux racist and sexist teenagers who browse 4chan and who want to seem edgy and cool represent our movement on youtube and reddit. Even worse, why do serious libertarians always make illogical rights based NAP arguments instead of logical, utilitarian consequentialist arguments.

Libertarians need to clean their house. For one thing, while we should reject the establishment, we should not embrace all anti establishment groups. We need to be populist egalitarians. Objectivist and NAP arguments based on rights and not what would benefit the majority of people should be rejected. Anyone who says that spending is wrong because "taxation is theft" should be dismissed as intellectually lazy. Our opponents are not evil enslavers hell bent on oppressing everybody or idiots we should condescend to (I mean liberals who post on r/politics, not people at the top like Clinton, Obama, and Kissinger), but people who are misguided on how to help society. We have the same goals as them, but different means.

Some good books that provide utilitarian arguments against state intervention.

http://mises.org/books/lessons_for_the_young_economist_murphy.pdf

http://www.amazon.com/The-Poor-Clarence-Buford-Carson/dp/0870000551

http://www.amazon.com/The-Politics-Unemployment-Hans-Sennholz/dp/091088417X

http://www.amazon.com/Losing-Ground-American-Social-1950-1980/dp/1455165840

http://www.amazon.com/New-Jim-Crow-Incarceration-Colorblindness/dp/1595586431/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1375299309&sr=1-1&keywords=new+jim+crow

http://www.amazon.com/State-Against-Blacks-Walter-Williams/dp/0070703787

I agree on the drug war, but it goes back to nixon, to reagan. People usually hate reagan for being too pro free market, so i'm glad you dislike him for the right reasons. I would add that occupational licensing and zoning are also a war on the poor. This book is excellent. http://www.amazon.com/State-Against-Blacks-Walter-Williams/dp/0070703787

Written in 1982, still one of my favorites explaining how big government hurts people...

Book: The State Against Blacks
Author: Dr. Walter Williams
Amazon's description: Examines federal, state, and local laws that hinder the employment and economic progress of Blacks and, often, deny their right to work.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0070703787/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_TpPWDbR0VGBFP