Opinion: Toward an Organizing Committee for a Classical Liberal Party Recent changes in the Libertarian Party have gravely damaged its image, organizational soundness, and fundamental platform. One readily finds people saying that the Republican Party could not have done a better job of wrecking the Libertarian Party than the Libertarian National Committee has done to itself. An alternative interpretation of…
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We should invest in the things that work. We should not invest in things that fail unless they deliver secondary benefits. We should also invest in things that we have not tried, things that we will need to build a future of peace, freedom, and prosperity. Spending by the national committee on national activities: First, the core activities of the…
I am pleased to report that the LNC, having recently appropriated $12,000 for Michigan Trademark legal action, has made a further step. It appropriated $1500 for Arkansas ballot access. In other good news, the Montana law to impose Top-Two for one election to one office is apparently going down in flames, as there was a negative committee vote, 1-17. The…
I return to a basic theme: The purpose of a political party is: To Advance its Agenda via Political Action. To run Candidates for Office and Win Elections. To Use Electoral Victory to Put Its Program into Effect. What sort of candidates can we run for office? I’m going to identify four levels of candidate commitment: The paper candidate. The…
Letters on Libertarian Strategy #1 Upon Strategic Planning Fellow Libertarians! Strategic Planning is not a new idea. Businessmen have been doing it for millennia. The Hellenic philosopher Archimedes, challenged ‘if you’re so smart, why aren’t you rich’, is said to have used strategic planning: He anticipated an excellent olive harvest and used out-of-season options trading to corner the market on…
The author noticed other idiosyncrasies of one instance of Michigan’s Libertarian Executive Committee (LEC).
The Liberty movement needs a new philosophical push in the direction of freedom and liberation as opposed to its current direction towards materialism and revolution.
However, all coverage is not good coverage. Taegan Goddard’s PoliticalWire.com, which is very widely read, reported: New Hampshire Candidate Rips 19th AmendmentJeremy Kauffman, who is running for U.S. Senate in New Hampshire as a Libertarian, called the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote, as “the death of liberty.”
This is the liveblog of the LNC meeting on Idaho. Comments are at the bottom of the page.
LAMA, the “Libertarian Association of Massachusetts”, was until recently the Massachusetts affiliate of the national Libertarian Party. LAMA has a remarkable record of political inaction. It is still in operation, will likely put on the ballot a slate of candidates for statewide office, but the Libertarian National Committee now recognizes a different group, the Mises-associated “Legitimate Libertarian Association of Massachusetts”,…