From: Paul Gallagher <pcg-AT-panix.com>
Subject: Any thoughts about libertarianism?
To: marxism-AT-jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU
Date: Sun, 28 Apr 1996 08:21:11 -0400 (EDT)


While reading some old posts on this list about the militia
movement in the US, I wondered about libertarianism.  Libertarianism
enjoys enormous support on Usenet, in a variety of forms -
Objectivism, anarcho-capitalism, RKBA libertarianism ("right to
keep and bear arms"), the militias, Steve Forbes supporters, Extropians -
but apparently little support in the general population.  My knowledge
of libertarians is limited to what I've observed on Usenet, but
one thing that struck me was their apparent eagerness to
separate their ideal Capitalism from real existing forms of capitalism,
which they identify as socialism.  For example, many believe that the
total privatization and deregulation of the economy will end poverty
and coercion.


I don't know what the political significance, if any, of this
ideology is, or its class character.  

Paul



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