Word: libertarianism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Right-wingers in California recently announced support for Tim Leary over Ronald Reagan for governor. Leading libertarian journals have called for armed resistance to taxation and the draft. A New York leader of the 1969 libertarian revolt in YAF now condemns the U. S. as a monster worse than Soviet Russia or Nazi Germany. Every major libertarian organization recognizes at least some aspects of U. S. foreign policy as imperialist and many favor and end to U. S. attempts to quash wars of liberation in the Third World...
...issue of Ramparts . "What first attracted me to the Left was the familiar ring of what was being said there. Decentralization. The return to the people of real political power-of all power." The more Hess saw of the left, the more he liked it, eventually leaving the libertarian right to become an anarcho-syndicalist...
Despite philosophical differences between the libertarian left and right, libertarians in general became increasingly sympathetic during the late '60's to what the left was saying. The Vietnam War played an important role in radicalizing many libertarians. As hundreds of thousands died in Asia-victims of America's fight to protect "freedom" under the Thieu-Ky regime-the true nature of the American government finally came home...
...scarcely any wonder that this ambiguous Puritan, this bigoted civil libertarian has eluded the makers of Cromwell. Yet it almost seems that they went out of their way to make the elusion mutual. As Director/Scenarist Ken Hughes sees it, Cromwell spent most of his time bursting into Parliament, squirming impatiently in his seat, then booming forth a set speech. Lost in the middle distance was the tentative, fluttery King Charles (Alec Guinness) whose crimes consisted of arbitrary taxation and ignorance that his nobles were cutting off the ears of outspoken foes. Happily, Guinness has his own ideas...
...Tennessee schoolteacher and central figure in the celebrated 1925 "monkey trial"; of cancer; in Shreveport, La. Scopes challenged a state law forbidding the teaching of Darwin's theory of evolution. The trial produced one of the great confrontations of U.S. legal history, pitting Clarence Darrow, the noted civil libertarian, against Prosecutor William Jennings Bryan, famed as a fundamentalist orator and three-time Democratic presidential candidate. For eight days the two argued; in the end, a jury "unanimously hot for Genesis," as H.L. Mencken reported, found Scopes guilty, and the judge fined him $100. Tennessee did not repeal...