On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 1:09 PM, Jeffrey Fisher <jeff.jfisher at gmail.com>wrote:
> huh. Interesting. I think I would have liked this a lot in high school and
> college. That's not meant to be derisive, btw. Just that on the face of it
> he seems to be saying a lot of the things that I was thinking about
> (although I hadn't yet given up on government).
>
> When I was in high school, I was on the debate team, which I know is hard
> to imagine. My senior year, the resolution under debate was economic (about
> the government providing employment to impoverished citizens [sic]). On our
> team, I was the capitalist guy, quoting Adam Smith and Ludwig von Mises in
> debate rounds, and then there was the guy who used to play "Marxist radical
> criminology" and, dearer to his art, anarchism. It was fun, and we could
> argue about it because we had the same priorities, really. It occurs to me
> to wonder if he was using Rothbard.
>
> But maybe this is also why I'm so inclined to think of Ayn Rand Paul
> libertarianism as a phase that people should have grown out of by the time
> they're voting in their second or third election.
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 3:31 AM, Joseph Catron <jncatron at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Jeffrey Fisher <jeff.jfisher at gmail.com
>> >wrote:
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>> > Hayek is too nuanced to serve that kind of role. Rothbard, maybe?
>> >
>> > Is it wrong of me to feel a little bit relieved that I don't even know
>> > Rothbard?
>> >
>>
>> While cleaning old files tonight, I ran across an essay of his reprinted
>> by
>> something called the "Alliance of the Libertarian Left," with the somewhat
>> unlikely title "All Power to the Soviets!" You can see it, and their
>> introduction of him, here:
>>
>> http://sonv.libertarianleft.org/distro
>>
>> Ah, the wonderful weirdness of youthful politics ...
>>
>> --
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>> lytlað."
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