Misc. on the politics of the sixties...interview w Anne Heller about books on libertariansim

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Robert Nozick laid out a libertarian society in *Anarchy, State, and 
Utopia*. People have only as much government as they want. People choose to 
participate. If you opt out, you do not necessarily receive any benefits of 
the collective. For example, if you choose not to chip in to build a road 
that goes past your houses to other houses, you do not have a right to use 
the road. You can negotiate with those who put in the road, but you do not 
have a natural or conventional right to use the road without consent.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Kohut" <markekohut at yahoo.com>
To: "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 6:13 AM
Subject: Misc. on the politics of the sixties...interview w Anne Heller 
about books on libertariansim


I’m interested that libertarianism is an openly right-wing phenomenon. The 
word
doesn’t sound like that.

There have been attempts, especially in the 1960s, because libertarians are
anti-war, to get together with the New Left, but it didn’t work very well
because that was pretty much all they shared. The libertarians just don’t 
think
government should take care of people.

Like anarchy?

Well, that is no government at all. These people want a little tiny 
government
that will defend us against our enemies and police crime in the nation and 
they
want courts that will adjudicate contracts. They think everything should be 
done
by contract.






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