[490] in libertarians
Libertarians and the Left
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vernon Imrich)
Fri Dec 9 07:13:21 1994
To: libertarians@MIT.EDU
Cc: safe@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 09 Dec 1994 07:11:14 EST
From: Vernon Imrich <vimrich@MIT.EDU>
[thought this might be of interest given the recent ACLU debate]
The following was excerpted in the Dec 7 WSJ as
"Notable and Quotable":
`` Christopher Hitchen's advice to liberals in the
Dec. 12 Nation:
`Faced as we are with an apparently libertarian inclination among
the voters, and a strongly authoritarian strain among the Republicans,
the dialectical thing to do is to work with the libertarian tendency...
If you want to simplify and minimize the relationship of the citizen
to the state there is no necessary contradiction involved in favoring
a flat tax, which would eliminate the parasitic class of tax-fixers who
exempt the rich and the corporations from their fair share, and also
eliminate the pulverizing bureaucracy which keeps people in permanent
servile confusion about whether or not they have complied with the
law...
These days, I get more out of reading the libertarian magazine
Reason than I do out of many "movement" journals. Tehre are important
differences of emphasis, but it can be more of a pleasure to joust with
the libertarians than to have another go around with the center-left
and its doomed coalition of dwindling "out groups".' ''
[I'd say the same for _The Nation_ a very good left wing rag, as
far as that goes. Used to have the best info on the covert ops
in Central America.]
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