Taken for Granted or Left Out (To Katha Pollitt)

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Jun 3 09:37:18 PDT 1998


Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:


>They are very
>very welcome as long as they oppose American Imperialism. Go ahead. Make my
>day.

Actually, a good bit of the libertarian right - noncorporate libertarian, that is - is highly anti-imperialist. They believe that the U.S. empire undermined all the pre-imperial democratic traditions (overlooking the fact that in those halcyon days, only white guys could vote and own property). One of the strongest denunciations of the Gulf War I read came from Lou Rockwell, who runs something called the Von Mises Institute at Auburn University.

By the way, Rockwell & his fellow von Miesians think that Hayek was a social democrat.

Doug



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