how left is TRP?

[Mike Weaver]

Richard Baillie :
>...reading between the lines and noting his fondness for army surplus
>gear i would guess he's fairly close to the libertarian camp these
>days...

At a 1970s post hippie event, preparing for the public to arrive.
http://www.zen39103.zen.co.uk/intro.html
  A couple came up to us looking to borrow something to decorate 
their space. My friend offered them some parachute material.
  "Oh no man" came the reply, "we don't use military gear."
I looked around at our tents, boots, trousers, jumpers, vehicles, 
tools, the big dome fully lined with parachutes, etc etc. The Army 
and Navy store did well out of us - all their gear is made with use 
value not profit as the bottom line.

The fondness you mention links as easily to hippie/post hippie 
culture as to libertarians.

Mind you  *libertarian* is not a word which can be used without a 
qualifier. The right libertarians may have won the battle for the 
word on Wikipedia but that only shows the US dominance of that arena.
I'd guess he's an individualist with left wing sympathies, which you 
might want to pin down as left libertarian, but the fondness for army 
gear isn't that strong a pointer.

Mike 
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