Word: libertarianism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...listeners brought up over-population. "In New York City," one explained, "people are literally going crazy from the effects of overcrowding." As badge-wearing conservatives, they could argue for legal abortion, sex education, and voluntary population control from the libertarian position, an ideology of the Right that, in its insistence of complete personal freedom, has contributed to the sentiments against big government and federal intervention in a free economy...
...panelists, Dr. George C. Roche, had summed up this position in another context during an earlier speech. "It may be that coercive political power can best serve the individual by stepping aside and letting the sun shine through." Ayn Rand's objectives grew out of the libertarian point of view; though nobody at the convention went openly to that extreme, the ultimate result of libertarianism is, logically, anarchism...
When they were leaked to the press two months ago, some of the more libertarian conclusions of the President's Commission on Obscenity and Pornography enraged those who fear that smut is polluting U.S. morals. Released officially and in full last week, the report of the panel's majority gave critics more to complain about than their wildest fantasies could have conjured up. Not only is pornography guiltless as a cause of crime, delinquency, deviance or emotional disturbance, said the majority, it can actually strengthen conjugal ties...
Previously called the Harvard-Radcliffe Association for Rational individualism, the group for the past two years has consisted largely of ten graduate students studying libertarian philosophy, especially Ayn Rand...
...tentative name of a two-year-old study group in libertarian philosophy- hopes to unite followers of Ayn Rand and supporters of Noam Chomsky under a libertarian banner...