[838] in libertarians
"Utopian" label
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vernon Imrich)
Tue Mar 21 14:00:52 1995
To: libertarians@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 1995 13:59:01 EST
From: Vernon Imrich <vimrich@MIT.EDU>
|> On Sat, 18 Mar 1995 jmckitri@MIT.EDU wrote:
|> > Hey! Anyone see the new Rolling Stone? Big article on Libertarianism
|> > "Sidewalks for Sale". Why do they insist on calling libertarians utopian???
|> > Jennifer McKitrick
Utopian equals anyone who has a consistent world view. You have to be
unsure of yourself, or willing to compromise your ideals in order to
be "realistic."
For example, this same reasoning leads people to describe the Chicago
school of economics as "almost religious in their devotion to free
markets."
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