My article, “The Death Throes of Pro-IP Libertarianism,” was published on Mises Daily today. Also published today on Mises Daily is a reprint of Wendy McElroy’s great, classic “Copyright and Patent in Benjamin Tucker’s Periodical Liberty.”
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Amusing: on the “Christian Pipe Smokers” site (hunh?), one guy links to my article and says “This is so beautifully written I had to share it.” Another replies: “Okay to be nice I started reading it. I got half way and wanted to blow my brains out. That was stupidly and poorly written. After getting half way I was lost having no idea what he was talking about. … If yer reading crap like this all the time it is no wonder your politics are screwed up.”
Also, mentioned in Where should anarchists stand on IP? (FreeDissent); my comment was:
Thanks for the plug, but correct, I don’t regard myself as a right-libertarian. I despise the right, and also the left. We libertarians are neither right nor left.
I’m nonreligious, pro-gay-marriage, pro-open-borders, pro-tolerance/cosmopolitan values, pro-drug legalization, anti-state, anti-war, and anti-IP. And I even like chardonnay. I am not sure how that makes me “right.” I doubt they would have me.
Also discussed on Freesteader.
And in an excellent post, The Decline of the Randian Influence on American Libertarianism?
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Being still new-ish to the online libertarian community, I remain befuddled by the insistence of some people of claiming “left-libertarian”. At first I was intrigued by this, and I assumed they meant some type of Marxist thought. After reading a lot of the writings of self-described left-libertarians (LL’s) I found their thoughts to be not unlike my own.
Is there any source out there that describes the differences between the various “factions”? And I say “factions” merely for lack of a better term.
try this previous comment over at Libertarian Standard
http://www.libertarianstandard.com/2010/04/22/left-libertarians-admit-opposition-to-capitalism-is-substantive/#comment-289