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Subject: Re: Objectivism vs Libertarianism
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Date: Thu, 11-Sep-86 21:43:29 EDT
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In Vol 6, issue 57, Eyal Mozes recommends Peter Schwarz's 
pamphlet. I read that pamphlet and I'd like to amend
his recommendation: Libertarians should read it to understand
why objectivists hate them. I found a multitude of inconsistencies,
misquotes and a general lack of understanding. And I read it
when I had just discovered Rand, and was extremely favorably
minded towards anything written by someone claiming to be
an objectivist. I'm not sure if Schwarz is a bad Objectivist,
or just doesn't understand Libertarianism, but he's obviously
influenced a lot of Objectivists. I plan to try to write a
lengthy point-by-point refutation of that pamphlet, but this
will take some time, as I intend to track down the contexts
of all of his quotations from Libertarians. Some of them are
so anti-Libertarian that I feel it necessary to see for myself
that they aren't being pulled totally out of context.
Anyway, if anyone knows of any writings that have already
done such a refutation (I assume it would be by a Libertarian),
please let me know!  If not, could a Libertarian out there
give me any suggestions as to where I could find copies of
things like "The Libertarian Party platform, 1981"?

Send that last by e-mail to me, if CWM inserts an editorial
comment here to the effect that the specifics might constitute
political advertising.

Melissa Silvestre (melissa@athena.mit.edu)

[ I prefer Poli-Sci to be a forum of discussion, so I prefer not to
receive *any* party's entire platform as a submission!  - CWM]
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