I cringe every time libertarianism is associated with the Confederate States of America. Read Jeff Hummel's Emancipating Slaves, Enslaving Free Men to see why you should too.
Saturday, July 13, 2013
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Proudly delegitimizing the state since 2005
"Aye, free! Free as a tethered ass!" —W.S. Gilbert
"All the affairs of men should be managed by individuals or voluntary associations, and . . . the State should be abolished." —Benjamin Tucker
"You must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself." —James Madison
"Fat chance." —Sheldon Richman
I cringe every time libertarianism is associated with the Confederate States of America. Read Jeff Hummel's Emancipating Slaves, Enslaving Free Men to see why you should too.
—Henry David Thoreau
"Free association . . . the only true form of society."
—Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
3 comments:
Rand Paul has an astoundingly political tin ear.
What do you think of Dilorenzo's work on the civil war and Lincoln?
I have not read them, but a Civil War scholar whom I trust implicitly advises that they are agenda-driven shoddy pieces of work -- not real works of history. I've read several reviews and accounts which support that judgment.
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