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that I think you will find useful.
Bob Parkhurst
[Original Message]
From: Derek Jensen <derekj72@...>
To: <lpsf-discuss@yahoogroups.com>
Date: 4/8/2006 12:16:31 AM
Subject: Re: [lpsf-discuss] Brad Spangler quote on libertarians and the
left
right wing cultural contamination of their libertarian views?
> "Genuine libertarianism is very much left wing. It's revolutionary. The
> long and tragic alliance of libertarians with the right against the
> spectre of state socialism is coming to a close, as it served no
> purpose after the fall of the Soviet Union and so-called
> "conservatives" have subsequently taken to letting their true
> big-government-on-steroids colors fly�. [I]n the period since the
> demise of the Soviet Union, both the radicals and moderates among the
> left have been subconsciously seeking a new radical creed to orient
> themselves upon to replace Marxism�. I believe that radical
> libertarians � will be most effective when they overcome any lingering
> right wing cultural contamination of their libertarian views and
> embrace their inherent radicalism � which is most at home on the left.
> For as the radicals go, so do the moderates grudgingly follow in small
> steps�. It's time for libertarians to stop fighting the left and take
> up the challenge of leading the left."
>
> http://bradspangler.com/blog/archives/283
>
> Personally I don't see libertarianism as either on the left or
the