Word: libertarianism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. Igor Tamm, 75, physicist and a leading libertarian within Soviet science; in Moscow. A critic of Kremlin attempts to police the scientific community, Tamm never joined the Communist Party. In 1958 he shared the Nobel Prize with two Soviet colleagues for discovering and explaining the "Cherenkov effect," the bluish glow that occurs when high-energy electrons pass through a transparent substance. Tamm's prominence among Russian theoretical physicists was based largely on his work blending quantum mechanics and Einstein's theory of relativity...
...Radical Libertarian Alliance (RLA), a political group whose 40 members come from both Harvard and the Cambridge community, sponsored the meeting...
...first and most spectacular event occurred in New York on Columbus Day, 1969. Hundreds of Radical Libertarian Alliance members assembled under a black flag to debate the relative merits of communism and individualism-a large number of the RLA members were, by then, communalists-and whether or not to adopt revolutionary tactics. The fric...
...meantime, was gaining members-it now has over 3000. While remaining purely pro-capitalist in ideology, it became progressively more anarchist-adopting a black flag with a dollar sign as its official flag. A series of SIL-sponsored conferences featuring well-known right-wing libertarian speakers met with success in all parts of the country. SIL was active in organizing national resistance to the census of 1970-in Hawaii, the head of SIL's census resistance organization is currently under indictment for census evasion. SIL has also become heavily involved in tax resistance. In the Boston area, SIL is organizing...
Other organizations, not directly related to either SIL or RLA, have also been active. The California Libertarian Alliance held a "Left-Right Festival of Liberation" last year that featured Paul Goodman, Karl Hess, and former SDS president Carl Oglesby. In Arizona, Student Libertarian Action Movement members started a center for the elderly and established close ties with "street people." The Phoenix Anarchist Coalition in Michigan has harassed and been harassed frequently by police. Perhaps most interesting of all are the "Nomads" and "Troglydytes"-libertarian dropouts who are currently living in the wilderness or underground. Their life-style subject...