[lbo-talk] Gore Vidal: Hero of the Right?

matthew bradley matt at machination.org
Thu Jul 10 10:56:56 PDT 2003


Mmm. Maybe...maybe we can only hope?

But then he sounds more like like an european libertarian, not the american perversion of libertarianism. It seem to me that most european libertarians (and like thinkers), while upholding or promoting many generally libertarian concepts have a lot more in common with The Left.

As they say: you can go so far right you come left, and if the ideas cited below were the man in a nutshell, and if (a massive if) The Right idolized them genuinely, we might be in for some positive surprises!

Wishful thinking...

Matt

mike larkin wrote:


> http://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/Chronicles/June2003/0603Kauffman.html
>
> "So what are the policy prescriptions of this
> dangerous radical? Eliminate the income tax and
> devolve the taxing power to states and municipalities.
> Call off the ruinous drug war. Decentralize political
> power along the lines of the Swiss cantonal system.
> Bring home our troops. Slash the “atrocious taxes that
> subsidize this permanent war machine.” Decimate the
> budget of the War Department (coyly renamed the
> “Department of Defense” by the amusingly surnamed
> President True-Man). Fine ideas all, and within the
> Jeffersonian tradition. Gore Vidal ought to be a
> revered elder of the libertarian side of the American
> right. "
>
>
>
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