On Sep 20, 2011, at 6:24 AM, Jim Farmelant wrote:
> Truth be told, a lot of this originated with the late Carl Oglesby,
> who was a proponent of this stuff even back when was
> president of SDS. Oglesby was a long time buddy of
> Murray Rothbard, who as a libertarian, had advocated
> an alliance with the New Left in the 1960s.
Funny you should mention this - Jesse Walker had an interesting obit for Oglesby on Reason's blog:
http://reason.com/blog/2011/09/14/carl-oglesby-rip
^^^ CB: Both libertarians and anarchists are , at root, petit bourgeois individualists. This is the basis for commonality between an libertariian and an SDSer. They have a fundamentally flawed social ( actually anti-social) theory which starts with "the" individual and derives society as a collection of individuals. Margaret Thatcher actually announced the creed for both. American history and political culture is chocked full of them from self-reliant philosophers to SDS to libertarians and Tea Partiers. This philosophical flaw prevents left petit bourgeois politicos like Chomsky from being truly socialists or truly Left. They make out the state, rather than the bourgeois, as the main enemy. They are on all fours with the true left to the extent that the state is , of course, dominated by the bourgeoisie and many state actions they oppose are opposed by the true left as well.