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Lefevre's Journal Fall 1976
CARAVAN INTO CONFLICT to, ~~ The political climate of the United States .has (which is also a non-resignation), one of this nine been as hot as a waterless crossing of the Sahara. has dubbed my position "absurd" and "inane" (The What has distressed me this bicentennial year, and Libertarian Forum newsletter IX, No.4, 1976). even much of the preceding year, is the knowledge Since 1 have no means of responding to this that a great many fine people, harassed and frus charge except by this Journal, I am going to trated by repeated governmental forays against employ it to that purpose, trusting that those them, have organized what is called a "Libertarian sincere lovers of,liberty who receive this publica Political Party" and are trying to get "libertarians" tion on a quarterly basis will understand and elected to office. I can sympathize with those who tolerate both those who take aim at me and those in frustration strike out in this manner. But I must who cannot see my point of view. And I trust they grieve at their folly. I had expected wiser things of will continue to tolerate me. I think a dialogue is libertarians. important. One of the great merits of the "liber The position I take has recently been called tarian movement," if it can be so designated, is "absurd" and "inane" by one faction of the Liber that there is no catechism or body of tenets to tarian Party. This faction consists of nine liber which allegiance must be sworn. The merit of the tarians, who with bicentennial fervor have set search for liberty is that an open debate still con themselves up as a supreme court over the liber tinues. -
Isabel Paterson, Rose Wilder Lane, and Zora Neale Hurston on War, Race, the State, and Liberty
SUBSCRIBE NOW AND RECEIVE CRISIS AND LEVIATHAN* FREE! “The Independent Review does not accept “The Independent Review is pronouncements of government officials nor the excellent.” conventional wisdom at face value.” —GARY BECKER, Noble Laureate —JOHN R. MACARTHUR, Publisher, Harper’s in Economic Sciences Subscribe to The Independent Review and receive a free book of your choice* such as the 25th Anniversary Edition of Crisis and Leviathan: Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government, by Founding Editor Robert Higgs. This quarterly journal, guided by co-editors Christopher J. Coyne, and Michael C. Munger, and Robert M. Whaples offers leading-edge insights on today’s most critical issues in economics, healthcare, education, law, history, political science, philosophy, and sociology. Thought-provoking and educational, The Independent Review is blazing the way toward informed debate! Student? Educator? Journalist? Business or civic leader? Engaged citizen? This journal is for YOU! *Order today for more FREE book options Perfect for students or anyone on the go! The Independent Review is available on mobile devices or tablets: iOS devices, Amazon Kindle Fire, or Android through Magzter. INDEPENDENT INSTITUTE, 100 SWAN WAY, OAKLAND, CA 94621 • 800-927-8733 • [email protected] PROMO CODE IRA1703 Isabel Paterson, Rose Wilder Lane, and Zora Neale Hurston on War, Race, the State, and Liberty ✦ DAVID T. BEITO AND LINDA ROYSTER BEITO he ideals of liberty, individualism, and self-reliance have rarely had more enthusiastic champions than Isabel Paterson, Rose Wilder Lane, and Zora TNeale Hurston. All three were out of step with the dominant worldview of their times. They had their peak professional years during the New Deal and World War II, when faith in big government was at high tide. -
Meet Charles Koch's Brain.Pdf
“ Was I, perhaps, hallucinating? Or was I, in reality, nothing more than a con man, taking advantage of others?” —Robert LeFevre BY MARK known as “Rampart College”), School] is where I was first exposed which his backers wanted to turn in-depth to such thinkers as Mises AMES into the nation’s premier libertarian and Hayek.” indoctrination camp. Awkwardly for Koch, Freedom What makes Charles Koch tick? There are plenty of secondary School didn’t just teach radical Despite decades of building the sources placing Koch at LeFevre’s pro-property libertarianism, it also nation’s most impressive ideological Freedom School. Libertarian court published a series of Holocaust- and influence-peddling network, historian Brian Doherty—who has denial articles through its house from ideas-mills to think-tanks to spent most of his adult life on the magazine, Ramparts Journal. The policy-lobbying machines, the Koch Koch brothers’ payroll—described first of those articles was published brothers only really came to public LeFevre as “an anarchist figure in 1966, two years after Charles prominence in the past couple of who stole Charles Koch’s heart;” Koch joined Freedom School as years. Since then we’ve learned a Murray Rothbard, who co-founded executive, trustee and funder. lot about the billionaire siblings’ the Cato Institute with Charles “Evenifoneweretoaccept vast web of influence and power in Koch in 1977, wrote that Charles themostextremeand American politics and ideas. “had been converted as a youth to exaggeratedindictment Yet, for all that attention, there libertarianism by LeFevre.” ofHitlerandthenational are still big holes in our knowledge But perhaps the most credible socialistsfortheiractivities of the Kochs. -
Paolo Zanotto IL MOVIMENTO LIBERTARIO AMERICANO DAGLI
Paolo Zanotto IL MOVIMENTO LIBERTARIO AMERICANO DAGLI ANNI SESSANTA AD OGGI: RADICI STORICO-DOTTRINALI E DISCRIMINANTI IDEOLOGICO-POLITICHE Collana Monografie DIPARTIMENTO DI SCIENZE STORICHE, GIURIDICHE, POLITICHE E SOCIALI DI. GIPS INDICE ELENCO DELLE PRINCIPALI ABBREVIAZIONI ........................... p. 7 INTRODUZIONE ............................................................. »9 Parte prima LE RADICI STORICO-DOTTRINALI DEL LIBERTARISMO AMERICANO Capitolo I IL PENSIERO CRISTIANO RINASCIMENTALE TRA RIFORMA E CONTRORIFORMA .......................................................... »23 1. Etica protestante e spirito del capitalismo ................. »23 2. La genesi cristiana dell’individualismo moderno ......... »26 3. Le origini dell’austro-liberalismo nella Spagna del “se- colo d’oro”: la scuola di Salamanca .............................. »35 4. Il giusnaturalismo della neoscolastica iberica fra “reali- smo” e “nominalismo” ................................................ »41 Capitolo II I CLASSICI DEL LIBERALISMO E DEL FILONE LIBERTARIO ........... »49 1. Alle origini del Libertarianism .................................. »49 2. Alcuni classici del pensiero politico liberale europeo ed americano.................................................................. »52 3. Le ambivalenze del pensiero democratico di Thomas Jefferson .................................................................... »56 4. L’anarchismo libertario ed individualista americano del- l’Ottocento ............................................................... -
Counter Economics
have non-material incentives (see list of examples again). Nor is theft a form of profit; For more information that is too much like taxes, best left to the about the Movement of legitimized thieves. the Libertarian Left, What’s in it for you? contact: Counter-economics includes that which you need to do or want to do; the study of it increases your chances of “getting away with it.” Working with other counter-econo- mists preferentially reduces both your risks. Networking with other counter-economists increases your information, contacts, trad- ing partners, and so on. Understanding what you are doing and what it is, how it works refining that knowledge, and increasing your data and expanding it to ever greater areas of your life, gives you — not the State — ultimate control over your own life. That is the definition of freedom. What’s in it for our Movement? As more people consciously convert their work and leisure to the Counter-Econ- omy, the State loses both control and suste- nance, like a vampire losing blood and victims. The self-conscious counter-econ- omy is called The Agora (and the libertarian/counter-economists are called agorists). The stateless society which results is historically known as Anarchy. And the final, violent attempt by the losing statists to cling to power is called a counter-revolu- tion. (Revolution is the earlier, peaceful re- fusal of people to be ruled.) By these definitions, the Movement of the Libertarian Left is an alliance of sover- eign individuals building a revolutionary agorist cadre. We are not content to await a slow, haphazard drift toward a free society; many are being oppressed, plundered, and murdered by the State. -
Rose Wilder Lane, Laura Ingalls Wilder
A Reader’s Companion to A Wilder Rose By Susan Wittig Albert Copyright © 2013 by Susan Wittig Albert All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, scanned, or distributed in any printed or electronic form without permission. For information, write to Persevero Press, PO Box 1616, Bertram TX 78605. www.PerseveroPress.com Publisher’s Cataloging-in-Publication data Albert, Susan Wittig. A reader’s companion to a wilder rose / by Susan Wittig Albert. p. cm. ISBN Includes bibliographical references Wilder, Laura Ingalls, 1867-1957. 2. Lane, Rose Wilder, 1886-1968. 3. Authorship -- Collaboration. 4. Criticism. 5. Explanatory notes. 6. Discussion questions. 2 CONTENTS A Note to the Reader PART ONE Chapter One: The Little House on King Street: April 1939 Chapter Two: From Albania to Missouri: 1928 Chapter Three: Houses: 1928 Chapter Four: “This Is the End”: 1929 PART TWO Chapter Five: King Street: April 1939 Chapter Six: Mother and Daughter: 1930–1931 Chapter Seven: “When Grandma Was a Little Girl”: 1930–1931 Chapter Eight: Little House in the Big Woods: 1931 PART THREE Chapter Nine: King Street: April 1939 Chapter Ten: Let the Hurricane Roar: 1932 Chapter Eleven: A Year of Losses: 1933 PART FOUR Chapter Twelve: King Street: April 1939 Chapter Thirteen: Mother and Sons: 1933–1934 3 Chapter Fourteen: Escape and Old Home Town: 1935 Chapter Fifteen: “Credo”: 1936 Chapter Sixteen: On the Banks of Plum Creek: 1936–1937 Chapter Seventeen: King Street: April 1939 Epilogue The Rest of the Story: “Our Wild Rose at her Wildest ” Historical People Discussion Questions Bibliography 4 A Note to the Reader Writing novels about real people can be a tricky business. -
New Libertarian Manifesto Samuel Edward Konkin III 1983
New Libertarian Manifesto Samuel Edward Konkin III 1983 Preface to the First Edition Statism: Our Condition The basic form of new Libertarianism arose during my We are coerced by our fellow human beings. Since they struggle with the Libertarian Party during its formation in have the ability to choose to do otherwise, our condition 1973, and Counter-Economics was first put forward to the need not be this. Coercion is immoral, inefficient and public at the Free Enterprise Forum in Los Angeles in unnecessary for human life and fulfillment. Those who February 1974. New Libertarianism has been propagated wish to be supine as their neighbors prey on them are free within and without the libertarian movement and its to so choose; this manifesto is for those who choose journals, most notably New Libertarian magazine, since otherwise: to fight back. then. To combat coercion, one must understand it. More More importantly, the activism prescribed herein importantly, one must understand what one is fighting for (especially Counter-Economics) has been practiced by the as much as what one is fighting against. Blind reaction author and his closest allies since 1975. Several goes in all directions negative to the source of oppression "anarchovillages" of New Libertarians have formed and and disperses opportunity; pursuit of a common goal reformed. focuses the opponents and allows formation of coherent Just once, wouldn't you like to read a manifesto that's strategy and tactics. been practiced before it's preached? I wanted to. Diffuse coercion is optimally handled by local, immediate And I did it. self-defense. -
Liberty Pledge Newsletter
LIBERTY PLEDGE NEWSLETTER The Liberty Pledge Newsletter is a monthly publication for the contributors in the National Libertarian Party's Liberty Pledge Program and the Torch Club. It is also distributed to current National Committee Members and State Party Chairs in appreciation of their involvement and to serve them as a regular update on Libertarian activities at Headquarters and in the news. Clippings and other stories of interest are appreciated. Libertarian Party National Headquarters • 301 W. 21st St. • Houston, Texas 77008 • 713/880-1776 Want to raise your Pledge? Adjust it? Call us at 1-800-682-1776. JUNE Dear Supporters of Liberty, 1986 Liberty Pledge News is an internal publication, your "insider's" line to what's in the press concerning your party. Some of this material is not for the faint of heart, but those of you who receive it are the core - the "inner circle", so to speak - of the LP, and if you don't know what's going on, who does? Last month's issue drew a little negative feedback, so I'm asking you: Do you think major contributors, National Committee members, and State Chairs need to know what Libertarians are doing around the country, and what kind of coverage they are getting? Where would you get the news, if not here? I want to know what you think; feel free to write and share with me your feelings on this. It looks like the lawsuits are piling up around the country as the State LP's are taking the ballot access laws to the courts. -
Only in America
Only in America MICHAEL BISHOP On Wings of Song, by Thomas M. Disch. Bantam Books, 359 pp., $2.25. AS I WRITE (LATE DECEM- ber), our nation's President- elect (the inspiration in the late 1960s for both an irreverent California poetry magazine and a dazzingly disorienting story by English writer J. G. Ballard) must wait less than a month before appointing his wife Sec- retary of Interior Decoration at the White House, while bril- liant ex-Beatle and brutally X'd-out human being John Lennon (the Egg Man whose quirky imagination hatched hundreds of hummable mel- odies and a dozen or so ideal- istic crusades) has now had in- timate communion with non- existence for exactly sixteen days. What a strange, strange juxtaposition, the impending inauguration and this latest shocking death. Only in America. In On Wings of Song, his most successful novel to date, Thomas M. Disch has envision- ed a day-after-tomorrow Amer- ica in which the election of Ronald Reagan and the murder of John Lennon have credibly grotesque analogues. Indeed, I would argue that Disch's mor- dant imaginings of our short- range future (a period appar- ently encompassing about fif- ulations of its protagonist—in selves out of their prisons of the entire social fabric of Iowa teen years on either side of this case, a young man from flesh through song. Harnessed and the other Farm Belt "police the turn of the next century, al- Iowa named Daniel Weinreb— to an apparatus designed to states," where one can be jailed though Disch refuses to hand us in his quest to become an Artist. -
The Freeman 1959
ESSAYS ON LIBERTY VOLUME VI rrHE FOUNDATION FOR ECONOMIC EDUCATION, INC. IRVINGTON-ON-HUDSON, NEW YORK 1959 EDITOR'S NOTE The study of freedom and presentation of the findings in a manner helpful to anyone who is interested is the objective of the staff and the friends of the Foundation for Economic Education. The studies are distributed, as completed, in the form of separate re leases and as articles in The Freeman, a monthly study journal. This is the sixth volume of essays on liberty, all of the selections in it having previously appeared in The Freeman, or in Mr. Read's Notes from FEE, between June 1958 and June 1959. The first five volumes of Essays on Liberty, covering earlier Foundation releases, are still available. Permission is hereby granted to reprint these essays in whole or in part, except the following: Inflation Is a Burglar by Samuel B. Pettengill Emancipation by Machine by William Alvadore Buck The Growth Objective from The Guaranty Survey The Corruption of Union Leadership by Sylvester Petro A Child's Diary by Rose Grieco The Catastrophe of Confusion by E. Merrill Root Published October 1959 Copyright 1959 by The Foundation for Economic Education, Inc. PRINTED IN U.S.A. CONTENTS Page Would You Have Signed It? Ralph Bradford .... 9 Freedom and the Purpose of Life Oscar W. Cooley ............ 19 The Prophet, de Tocqueville William Henry Chamberlin ........ 24 The Search for an Echo Leonard E. Read ............ 35 The Early Quakers: An Experiment in Freedom Frederick Walker ..... 40 Free Will and the Market Place Frank Chodorov ............ 45 The Alternative to Competition E. -
Lefevre,Robert
TillS BREAD IS MINE Also By ROBERT LE FEVRE "THE NATURE OF MAN AND HIS GOVERNMENT" by Robert LeFevre Dlustrations by Roy J. Hurst AMERICAN LmERTY PRESS THIS BREAD IS MINE is prhrate prop..~rty. Readers are welcome to enter and browse to their content. It is regretted that the only way open to author or publisher to designate this book as private property is through the government copyright office. Essentially, the same chore could be performed by any good insurance firm or some other free market establishment. Since none such is in existence, and since it is deemed advisable to designate this book as private property, no choice exists for author or publisher. The book must be copyrighted, or it must be placed in that twilight realm where ownership is in doubt. Perhaps in Some future and more enlig-htened time authors and publishers may find a way to designate their efforts as private property without invoking the taxing powers of the government and without calling upon the police powers to hold the world at bay with the threat of violence. Copyright 1960 byR. D. Schwerman, Hales Corners, Wisconsin All Rights Reserved. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 60-53295 Designed and printed by American Liberty Press, 161 West Wisconsin Ave., Milwaukee, Wisconsin in the United States of America. Published in cooperation with American Liberty Press by Hydra, Inc. a Wisconsin Corporation. To ROSE WILDER LANE, whose book Discovery of Freedom, has inspired this effort, among many, to get at the truth of human liberty. TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE NO. -
Movement of the Libertarian Left
the statist society and goes counter- For more information economic. MLL is the interface between existing proto-agorist organizations and about the Movement of INTRODUCING THE the Revolutionary Agorist Cadre. Me- the Libertarian Left, dium range is less than 20 years. In the long range, the counter-econ- contact: omy will overwhelm State Capitalism and State Socialism to produce a soci- ety based on voluntary interaction with MOVEMENT a minimal amount of self-defense needed which can be handled by ordi- nary market facilities. This society of free trade in goods and values is the agora. OF THE The death of politics eliminates the monopoly of legitimized coercion (the State); a stateless society isanarchy. Our long-term politico-economic goals are summed up in our slogan: LIBERTARIAN Agora•Anarchy•Action! We work witheveryonewho strug- gles against the State and its privileged class while we maximize our personal LEFT freedom. Isn’t this the way a Resistance should be run? Join us! Recommended Reading For theory Power and Market by Dr. Murray N. Rothbard For strategy New Libertarian Manifesto by Samuel Edward Konkin III For a road map Alongside Night MOVEMENT OF THE a novel by J. Neil Schulman This brochure was originally written and pub- lished for MLL by the late Samuel Edward Konkin LIBERTARIAN LEFT III. This new edition has been minimally updated Agora • Anarchy • Action! and edited by Wally Conger Introducing the action; the effectiveness of libertarian- mise, conservatism, co-opting, and MOVEMENT OF THE ism comes from this single, easy-to- cowardice. MLL exposes mercilessly the grasp, overriding rule; and the ethical fraudulent proposals to elect politicians LIBERTARIAN LEFT beauty of libertarianism is in what it to abolish politics, to appoint bureau- saysnothingabout: the personal con- crats to abolish bureaucracy, and to duct of your own life and disposal of govern to abolish government.