Word: libertarianism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Some individualist rightists found the emerging Buckley-Y. A. F. mentality immoral. These individualists, who took up the label "Libertarian" rather quickly, disapproved of communism but did so without much concern for American moral superiority; their feelings were based on anti-statism, and they found no logic in supporting fascism to defeat communism because in their eyes the two were the same. As capitalists they resented Bucklcyite opposition to free trade and Bucklcyite eagerness to escalate taxes and foreign interventions. As Libertarians they were repelled by Bucklcyite eagerness to legislate against pornography, abortion, drugs, and subversion; they believed that...
...because of the configuration of social and personal influences on young people, more Libertarians are discovering themselves within Y. A. F. all the time. One project among some long-time Libertarians is to induce young would-be conservatives to use marijuana; "once they turn on," one explained, "they can never support a dictator again, even if his name is Buckley." Another project is education, a reason that Rampart College sponsors class and home study courses on free enterprise, and that a dozen large newsletters and magazines now circulate Libertarian ideas. The Bucklcyites in Y. A. F., called the "trads," have...
...Recently the whole California board of officers found themselves expelled by the National Office, with no stated reason that made any sense. Two months ago eight past members of the California Y. A. F. elite held a press conference, denouncing the organization and founding their own Student Libertarian Alliance. An ally from the hills of Stanford, past chairman Rod Manis formed a parallel Radical Libertarian Alliance; he, too, had been purged, allegedly for supporting Timothy Leary for California Governor (a seeming triviality, until one remembers that Ronald Reagan is on the adult board of Y. A. F. Advisors). Since summer...
...question of anarchy is serious to Y. A. F. "trads" because the Libertarian anarchist position is picking up the support of most young intellectuals on the right. The anarchist appeals are obvious-their view is moral, logically consistent, and wholly defensible; in short, it "makes sense" to individualists...
...David, 24, calls him a "libertarian anarchist" who even raised his children by free-market rules. Friedman once offered David, then ten, and his older sister Janet a choice of Pullman berths for a cross-country train trip, or the extra price of those berths in cash. The children chose to sit up in coaches for two days and take the cash...