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Just in case someone out there is still wondering, my friend Wendy McElroy spells out why Murray N. Rothbard matters.
Labels: anarchism, leftlibertarian, Murray Rothbard
posted by Wally Conger @ 10:00 PM
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Wally, can you explain his drift to paleolibertarianism and his support of Patrick Buchanan? He lost me when he did that.
Of course, I can't speak for Rothbard. But paleolibertarianism never seemed, IMHO, to soften Murray's radicalism. He supported Buchanan, as I recall, in opposition to the Gulf War in '91; but then, he always supported the strongest antiwar candidates. (Rothbard never endorsed Buchanan's protectionist economic positions.)
Rothbard ALWAYS tried to build political coalitions, whether Left or Right. And as a cultural conservative whose activism sprung originally from the Old Right, I think he found a comfortable spot on the Paleo-Right in the early 1990s. As someone who regularly attended gatherings of the John Randolph Club back then, I can say that the Paleo-Right was then strongly antistatist and antiwar.
Thanks, Wally. I guess it makes some sense, although I would have supported Marrou over Buchanan in '92. Of course, since I'm a non-voting anarcho-cap I didn't have to make that choice.
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