I agree with that. I wrote an article making a similar point
http://www.informinc.co.uk/LM/LM101/LM101_Freedom.html
So I think Louis is being a bit harsh when he writes
>Who cares what the libertarians say. We are more interested in what they
>do.
Which I suppose is faultless logic, but the problem is that the left give up the ground of liberty to the right.
In the forthcoming LM, we have a contribution from Nadine Strossen of the ACLU, who has been campaigning against Mayor Giuliani's anti-porn drive in NYC.
Strossen is not left wing, by any stretch of the imagination. But she speaks with more authority about civil liberties than any American leftist I know of.
> Our
>fight is not with libertarian philosophy, it is with a section of the
>ruling-class that wants to grind the workers into the dust.
Fighting talk, but why is liberty and the struggle against capitalism posed as contradictory? -- Jim heartfield