Re: Purity -- Liberty For All

[ Show ]

Support VoyForums

[ Shrink ]

VoyForums Announcement: Programming and providing support for this service has been a labor of love since 1997. We are one of the few services online who values our users' privacy, and have never sold your information. We have even fought hard to defend your privacy in legal cases; however, we've done it with almost no financial support -- paying out of pocket to continue providing the service. Due to the issues imposed on us by advertisers, we also stopped hosting most ads on the forums many years ago. We hope you appreciate our efforts.

Show your support by donating any amount. (Note: We are still technically a for-profit company, so your contribution is not tax-deductible.) PayPal Acct: Feedback:

Donate to VoyForums (PayPal):

[ Login ] [ Main index ] [ Post a new message ] [ Search | Check update time | Archives: 1, [2], 3 ]

Subject: Re: Purity

Author:
Tom Howe

[ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

Date Posted: 18:45:14 12/18/02 Wed
In reply to: George Phillies 's message, "Purity" on 10:51:13 12/09/02 Mon

I think George Phillies doesn't like Ayn Rand. He asserts the attribution to Rand of the "historical interpretation of the Nolan statement" is wrong.

In the first place, McPherson's excellent essay doesn't mention Nolan at all. The Libertarian Party may have been conceived in Nolan's living room, but it grew into a political force in the womb of Rand's popular expression of the ideas. Whether Nolan cribbed from Rand or chanced on a similar wording isn't important. It was Rand who made the ideas known to tens of thousands of potential activists and, thus, made the LP possible.

You can be a fine Libertarian without liking (or even knowing about) Rand. I think about half of our activists are in that category. That doesn't change the historical fact that it was Rand who nursed the ivory tower notion of "libertarian" into the political reality it became.

Tom Howe

[ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]