I would like to say “Well Done” to all the libertarian comrades who attended the Liberty conference at the week-end. I’m sure it was rather tedious, frustrating and confirmed all the usual complaints we have against the leftist so-called defenders of liberty. However the first virtue of attending such events is that it clears up in their minds whether we’re in only favour of the right of our corporate sponsors to screw the poor, or in favour of freedom for white people, or whether we’re serious about liberty.
No doubt there are some leftists who come away from an encounter with the Libertarian Alliance with the private realization that actually, they hate freedom if freedom means other people being allowed to choose capitalism as their mode of dealing with the universe. As someone who values truth above delusion I suppose the Libertarian Alliance performs a valuable educational function when it allows fascists to discover their inner selves and come out of the closet.
The value of such an exercise is that it makes the claim that libertarians are closet nazis unsustainable. Being accused of being naive utopians is rather an improvement on being falsely associated with every horror of the 20th century.
