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…
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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”,…
With original credit to Charles Curley, Editor at L. Neil Smith’s The Libertarian Enterprise. Murphy knows the Libertarian Party has the reputation of being fools, buffoons, knaves and worse. L. Neil Smith, after putting a lot of effort into it during its early years, withdrew and excoriated it for years thereafter. The recent convention did nothing to improve that reputation.…