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Just to add a few things to Kieth Lynch's reply to Eyal Mozes...

To start with, I'd summarize my reaction thusly: Eyal said a lot of
things that don't seem even remotely true.  A reply seems needed only
because the author spoke with such certainty.

"Murray Rothbard, who is widely regarded as the intellectual leader of
libertarianism, you can see that most of the views he holds on
concrete issues - such as his praise for the PLO, his sympathetic
evaluation of soviet foreign policy, and his view of the USA as the
world's "main danger to peace and freedom" - are totally incompatible
with genuine advocacy of individual rights, and identical with the
views of most socialists."

I would place Murray Rothbard as an intellectual leader among
Libertarians, but one who holds many opinions that are quite
controversial among libertarians.  The ones you mention in particular
are (mostly) ones that I don't agree with.  Most of the times that I
have heard Murray speak, he was specifically introduced (to
libertarian audiences) as someone with whom everyone would have some
disagreement.  I believe his main claim to authority in in the field
of economics.

Eyal goes on to explain that "the correct approach to political theory
is the one diametrically opposed to libertarianism's," and mentions in
particular Ayn Rand's as one who follows this model.  Rand is much
more widely regarded as THE person who set out the principle's on
which libertarianism is based.

Chris
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