ROTHBARD-ROCKWELL REPORT The Big endemic to this movement alleg- edly devoted to individualism Government and to the inviolable rights of Libertarians: private property. In particular, I mentioned a fondness for the The Anti- socialist, compulsory integra- Left-Libertarian tionist “Dr.” Martin Luther King. These leaders assured me THE EAR Manifesto that there was no egalitarianism by Murray N. Rothbard or King-loving in the libertarian movement; six months later, Approximately four years and after our break had oc- ago, Lew Rockwell and I broke curred, these same leaders were Voice, has been fired with the Libertarian Movement singing the praises of “Dr.” ice for “irreconcilable to found the ”paleolibertarian King as a model “libertarian.” movement,” a break which In the past four years, the dbetter . Ireland is roughly coincided with our fu- Official Libertarians have cat- sion with the “paleoconserva- apulted Leftward at an accel- tives” in the John Randolph erating rate. At every hand, Club and our Establishment of while still mouthing general RRR. (The Libertarian Move- “libertarian” slogans, this Of- ficial Movement is increasingly ment, which we can roughly ***** call the “Official Libertarians,” abandoning libertarian prin- is a loosely organized network ciples and embracing leftist that includes the Libertarian egalitarian statism. Party, Liberty magazine, Reason My old friend Harry Elmer magazine, and various free- Barnes used to write bitterly market thinktanks and institu- about ”pro-war pacifists,” a tions.) Our own ”rightward (Cont. page 2, col. 3) (Cont. next page, co/. I) turn” was the consequence of the dramatic end of the Soviet Union and Cold War, and the reappearance of America First and ”isolationism” as a viable Rating Senate Republicans ........................................ foreign policy for a rejuvenated The Anti-Clinton Election, by M.N.R. ............................ .9 and reconstituted American Quotes That Need No Comment ................................. Right. But our dramatic break .10 also resulted from what we saw Bosnian Update: No Peace, No Peace-Keeping, by M.N.R. ............14 as a festering and escalating Our Libertarianism, and Theirs, by Justin Raimondo .............. .15 Left-egalitarianism within the Rating Senate Republicans ...................................... .16 Official Libertarian movement. The Real Clarence Thomas, by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. ......... .19 Shortly before our break with More Quotes That Need No Comment ............................ .21 the Official Libertarians, I told some of the leadership that I The Freedom To Hire and Fire, by L.H.R., Jr. ..................... .22 believed that egalitarianismwas Envy us. Capitalism, by L.H.R.,Jr. .............................. .23 ~ ~ (7WEEARurnt. hmpg. 1) (BIG GOK cont. from page 1) group that has recently re- at the age of 53, of AIDS. doubled in force since the Gulf ***** War.Similarly, we cantrace the rise of another malignant group: George Bus be criti- “Big Government libertarians.” cized as “so WASP he would get The fact that both of these con- out of the wean to pee.” Well, cepts are oxymorons does not slow these people down one whit; on the contrary, it allows them to keep the cloak, the out- ward form, of their original ***** creed (whether pacifism or lib- ertarianism) in order to cam- Spy magazine notes that ouflage the diametrically op- “William F. Buckley, Jr., made ”opposition,” BiU, since NAFTA posed content underneath. [recent] Yale history when he includes these co ”Wolves in sheep’s clothing’’ ran up a in excess of within it; he who sums up their strategy. In that $500 at a restaurant, NAFTA, supports the way, the libertarian public is at one point bellowing, ‘Waitert fooled into changing their own bring me a bottle of wine before creed without realizing the trick I pass out.”’ that has been played upon them. ***** The great Old Right analyst Garet Garrett aptly called this Congrats to the second R for sort of wily tactic ”Revolution within the form.” Thus: the essence of the liber- tarian creed is that the only ”rights” are the rights of private property, including the right of feated 174 it would have meant property in one’s own person. government control of private And yet, the Official Libertarians schoolss,and by erasing school have increasingly embraced a district lines, it would have also panoply of new, left-wing rights, have sunk home prices and led each of which necessarily adds to massive busing. extra aggression against the ***** rights of property. “Civil left-ward and State-ward, of rights,” sanctified by ”Dr.” The national Libertarian Party, Official Libertarians. Evers King, are a clear-cut example. since its convention on the addled to the resolution his own No one ever has the ”right not Labor Day weekend at Salt Lake poLitical spin: that a defeat for to be discriminated” against; City under total control of long- NAFTA would “set back the for such ’highis” invade the in- time California leader Bill ”Mr . cause of free trade for decades.” violable right of the property- Stanford” Evers, has joined all No Bill, it would set owner-whether householder the other Official Libertarians in cause of international statism, or employer-to discriminate as endorsing NAFTA. How does super-governmentbureaucracy, much as he darn well pleases, Evers, who has built a long-term and subsidized American ex- and for whatever reason. And reputation as an LP ”purist,” ports. Since when does a “lib- yetl the Official Libertarians have jus* this sellout to statism? ertaxian purist‘’ call that system now adopted “civil rights’’ as By noting libertarian concerns ”free trade”? their own, and the leading ”lib- 2 .December W93 ertarian” legal group, the But since the impulse for this enthusiastic about the ”rights” Washington-based Institute for drive is egalitarian, i.e., that all of women and feminism gen- Justice, attempts to use the groups, races, classes, etc.4 erally. And in particular, liber- courts to enforce civil rights not all individuals-are ”really” tarians have displayed great concepts. Essentially, liber- equal, this means that this com- fervor for gay ”rights” and tarians now favor civil rights, pensation will never stop until stress the evils of ”discrimina- but, like the neoconservatives, average black and white in- tion” against gays. So ardently they balk at their logical exten- comes, wealth, status, etc. are are libertarians devoted to gay sion in affirmative action and all equal. And since equality of rights that the word “liber- enforced quotas for accredited individuals and groups does tarian” in the public press has “victim groups.” not and cannot now become almost a code If Official Lib- exist, this means word for championof gay rights. ertarians offer any that the proposed Only his pro-gay agenda ac- sort of argument ”compensation” counts for the ardor of Repub- for their embrace is forever. lican libertarians towardMass- of the statist con- Since libertar- achusetts Governor Weld, cept of ”civil ians are individu- whom they embrace as, in the rights,” it is alists who believe current slogan, ”fiscally con- usually that such that each indi- servative but socially tolerant.” rights, even if not vidual is a person (The ”fiscally conservative” strictly following of different merits refers to a one-time budget cut from principle, who should go as followed, the next time around, are needed to far as his merit by a compensatory budget in- “offset” or “com- can carry him, crease.) ”Socially tolerant,” in pensate” blacks libertarians are the current atmosphere, means for several hun- not supposed to be a devotion to the entire Left dred years of egalitarian, and cultural agenda, from gay slavery. But of indeed none of rights to compulsory multicul- course another the libertarian tural propaganda and condom- essential aspect masters, includ- ization in the public schools. of libertarian ing Ayn Rand The radical shift leftward of “rights” is that who was the guru the libertarian movement is re- they pertain strictly to each in- for the bulk of current liber- flected in their concrete political dividual, and do not accrue tarians, was in any sense positions. In addition to civil over time to some ”group” or egalitarian. And yet there it is: rights and gay rights, the most ”class.” The idea that “we owe egalitarianism has become the fervent Official Libertarian en- blacks” for slavery overlooks unspoken but very real driving thusiasm is now directed toward several critical points (in addition force in the current Official school vouchers. Note that the to the fact that the process of in- movement. major focus of the libertarian itial enslavement was never Once group egalitarianism argument for school vouchers white-on-black, but always becomes the norm, other groups is that the range of ”choice” by black-on-black among warring than blacks will clamor for the poor parents will be expanded; African tribes): (a) that “we” privileges of ”victim status.’’ with vouchers in their pockets, existing folk never enslaved Sure enough, that jostling for poor parents will be able to anyone; (b) that existing blacks victim privilege is now the major choose to send their kids to pri- were never enslaved; and (c) hallmark of American politics. vate as well as public schools. that there is never any sug- The Official libertarians have so But of course any thief finds his gested time or quantitative limit far not displayed enormous af- range of choice happily ex- to this ”compensation.” How finity for Latino or disabled panded; but expansions of wel- long and how much 0 Lord? ”rights,” but they are highly fare thievery is not supposed to 3 December 239 -be the point of libertarian pol- lems; school ”choice,” which inating” in admissions in favor itics. For while the poor parent will tear down separate subur- of students of their own religion. who receives vouchers will in- ban districts, is a sinister method Even the California proposal, deed find his choices expanded, of accomplishing this very goal.