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...have to consider: it was several decades after Marx's first writings that Communists took over Soviet Russia--and that was with money pouring in from many foreign sources. We libertarians have no foreign benefactors--but we've just begun to write," says Steven Wright, editor of Ergo a libertarian newspaper based at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Wright, unlike many Marxists, does not call for violence to bring about a libertarian society. He feels that the seeds of individualism have already taken hold in the United States and that, sometime in the future, a major intellectual debate will spread...
...paper is primarily an organ of commentary. Often Ergo's interpretation of the correct libertarian line is so rigid that to other libertarians break with the paper. Lawrence White '77, president of Sons of Liberty, Harvard's libertarian group, calls the paper "too right wing." He explains that Ergo founds its philosophy on the thought of novelist Ayn Rand. As a youth, Rand saw the Bolsheviks take over Russia. Before she emigrated to the United States, the Bolsheviks killed both her parents, leaving her with a virulent anti-Communist streak...
...active member of Sons of Liberty who wished to remain anonymous said Ergo is "too dogmatic. They adhere religiously to Rand's senile ideas." He and White agreed that Ergo represents a fraction of the libertarian spectrum, even though the spectrum claims only 40 to 50 members at Harvard and MIT combined. Perhaps for this reason there has been little interaction and co-operation between libertarians at the two campuses. Several Harvard libertarians contacted said they had never heard of Ergo...
...believe that the editorial policy of The Crimson runs contrary to libertarian tenets. I hope that The Crimson fully understands those tenets. Ted Chrisopher...
...Libertarian Party: Based on a philosophy most eloquently presented by John Stuart Mill, this party is so opposed to government intervention that is platform sometimes verges on the anarchistic. Anything is alright between consenting adults, so to speak, from abortion to free enterprise, including union contracts and hiring 12-year olds. Unlike the American Party, the Libertarians demand a strict enforcement of civil rights and liberties, since its philosophy calls for equal opportunity--but not reverse discrimination or quota systems, which is why it calls for passage of the ERA but an end to affirmative action programs. While the Libertarians...