Tim West wrote:
> Of course, that didn't stop some of us who were too stupid 20 years ago to know what the pledge meant when they joined. I thought force = violence, and had no problem swearing to the fact that I didnt believe in violence as a means of achieving political or social goals. :D <
As you presumably know, the true meaning of
the Pledge is indeed not that anarchism is the LP's end, but rather that
violence is not the LP's means. Cf. http://marketliberal.org/FixLP.html#Pledge
> I trust the political marketplace to marginalize people who are not really libertarian but claim to be <
Right! If anarcho-capitalists were as
intellectually confident as they try to act, they would relish the chance to
associate with confused freedom-lovers who have not yet had the scales fall from
their eyes. I have absolutely no problem including anarchists in any
freedom-increasing coalition, because I'm confident that the obvious flaws in
anarchism will severely limit how much it can infect the rest of the movement.
The incidence of anarchism in the broader libertarian movement has very little
to do with how anarchism holds up against the best arguments against it, and
very much to do with the incidence of a certain personality type that craves
facile moral certitude and the ersatz self-esteem it offers.
Robert Capozzi wrote:
> Frankly, I'm neither anarchist nor minarchist. I'm a "less-archist."
I'd like a better name than "liberty
increaser" or "aggression decreaser", and lessarchist might be it.
Thanks!
Brian Holtz
Libertarian candidate for Congress, CA14 (Silicon Valley) http://marketliberal.org
blog: http://knowinghumans.net
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