>mike larkin wrote:
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>> I'm no expert on these guys, but everything by them I've read at
>> antiwar.com, where they congregate, indicates that they are sincere in
>> advocating "republic, not empire."
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>By "Republic" they mean primarily the Roman Republic, an extremely
>oppressive and aggressive regime. And implicitly they also mean a
>republic which embodies as completely as possible under capitalism a
>patriarchal regime at the family level. They are indeed poisonous.
Libertarians? Really, Carrol, you should get out more. They can be loopy, but they're really not into state repression or even necessarily patriarchy. Isn't Justin Raimondo himself gay, and kind of out of the patriarchal family loop? They don't like imperial war, and a lot aren't fond of the war on drugs either.
Doug