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1. Null Void on Dec 18, 2011, 6:14 pm:

   I'm loving this interview! Hearing Scott Horton call the Constitution a "rightwing, reactionary fascist document" warmed my heart. Get back to the Constitution? Hell no!

   This is why I have become a left-libertarian, moreover seeing libertarianism as a left-wing movement. The State is no friend of the poor and powerless; Marx had a point when he called the State the central committee of the capitalists, even if the interests don't entirely overlap. The corporate assholes have it made in this system. Anybody who actually believes them to be persecuted needs their heads examined.
2. PalmettoPatriot on Jan 21, 2012, 8:11 pm:

   I definitely think there are two wings to the libertarian movement. I come down on the Right wing of that divide. But even so, we have much in common.When fighting the state, I welcome left-libertarians as our allies. When defending our ethnic/cultural group and traditional society I look to the paleo-conservatives as our allies.
3. Null Void on Jan 23, 2012, 10:44 pm:

   I was the dick who voted down your comment. It was based on my, I freely admit, antipathy to paleolibertarianism (I presume that is your stance). However, reading your comments on other sites, it is now clear that my action was uncalled for. In fact, I should have voted it up.

   The main source of my hatred was the hatred the paleolibertarian showed the rest of the libertarian movement. Did you know they used the word 'left-libertarian' as an epithet against anyone to the left of them? Basically, that led them to labeling the Cato Institute "left-libertarian". Certain they are not as culturally conservative as paleolibertarians would like, but calling them left wing is too much of a stretch. As I read more, the more I hated the right-wing of our movement.

   But, I realize now that the real reason I hated it was that most paleolibertarians seemed hellbent on driving anyone not like them to the margins. They were not content to say, 'I disagree'; they sought to wipe the original libertarian movement and the left-libertarians from memory.

   You, on the other hand, have done nothing to merit my usual hatred. The moment you posted here, you have been nothing by kind and polite. Hell, you even reblogged Kevin Carson's article! He used to be a paleocon, if I remember correctly. I realize now it was not paleolibertarians I hated; it was their intolerance of anyone not like them. But, you seem to be of a more tolerant variety. I do hope that it is part of a trend.

   If that is the case, then I can live with the existence of paleolibertarians. I do hope there are more like you, or that you are trying to spread a more tolerant attitude among your comrades.
4. PalmettoPatriot on Jan 30, 2012, 6:46 am:

   Thank you, Null Void. That was very kind and big of you to say. I can't speak for all Right-libertarians (and I really don't know if there is a good term for us, perhaps Hoppian, I like that), of course, but the folks I know who think similar to me are certainly open to alliance-building and working with Left-libertarians.
5. radmatty on Feb 5, 2012, 10:01 pm:

   And he called Shay's Rebellion something like the "false flag" event that inspired the counter-revolution. I'm always trying to call people's attention to that concept.

   I see anarchism in the Declaration of Independence:

   'When in the course of Human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them to another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them…'

   That's music to my ears!

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