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Some individualist rightists found the emerging Buckley-Y. A. F. mentality immoral. These individualists, who took up the label "Libertarian" rather quickly, disapproved of communism but did so without much concern for American moral superiority; their feelings were based on anti-statism, and they found no logic in supporting fascism to defeat communism because in their eyes the two were the same. As capitalists they resented Bucklcyite opposition to free trade and Bucklcyite eagerness to escalate taxes and foreign interventions. As Libertarians they were repelled by Bucklcyite eagerness to legislate against pornography, abortion, drugs, and subversion; they believed that...
...founded in 1960 by a gathering of young anti-communists and assorted conservatives meeting at William F. Buckley's request at his estate in Sharon, Connecticut. Their resulting document of principles, the "Sharon Statement," upheld free enterprise and tradition as its primary values...
Thus Y. A. F., the newborn child, had two heads, and they would not face the same direction for long. Buckley in his role as godfather to the organization, stressed traditionalist values. Others, rallying to the teachings of economists Ludwig von Mises, Milton Friedman, and Murray Rothbard, stressed free enterprise. Buckley encouraged a faith in "tradition for its own sake" and plugged for anti-communism, Christianity, law and order, and the flag. Others in the organization idealized laissez-faire capitalism, anti-authoritarianism, and extreme individualism...
COMMUNISM, in Buckley's thinking, was a clear and present danger against which all rightists should unite; and in that schema socialism was, in the hands of callow liberals, useful to communism. Unstated but implicit in such thinking was the assumption that communism was the major threat to human freedom, and that some sacrifices of freedom and comfort and safety were necessary to defeat the red menace. That which strengthened America, even if collectivist, could be rationalized as good; that which weakened America, even if fulfilling of individual freedom, was bad. Many Buckleyite conservatives held these beliefs, not necessarily...
...purpose rhetorical style -overstatement for an overstated time -New Leftese is shared by everybody, including the Old Right. If you are against the System and for authenticity (and who isn't?-even Bill Buckley these days), then you are talking a mild New Leftese without knowing...