An acquaintance said this to me in an email:
The left “libertarians” lack the brains to be libertarians, the balls to be full-fledged socialists, and the integrity to kill themselves.
Needless to say, this quote is overboard and brutal (many of them have brains; they should of course not kill themselves), but it helps to highlight the possibly growing communications chasm between standard- and left-libertarians.
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Stephan Kinsella is a libertarian writer and retired patent attorney in Houston, Texas. He has published widely on various areas of libertarian legal theory and on legal topics such as intellectual property law and international law. His publications include Legal Foundations of a Free Society (Papinian Press, 2023), Against Intellectual Property (Mises Institute, 2008), International Investment, Political Risk, and Dispute Resolution: A Practitioner’s Guide (Oxford, 2020), and The Universal Principles of Liberty (2025).
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