Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Beginning in 1961 clusters of Libertarians began breaking away from Buckley. Many saw themselves as American conservatives determined to preserve an individualist, revolutionary American Tradition; most of these saw Buckley as a transplanted European aristocrat whose brand of collectivist capitalism was a kind of feudalism and whose morality began with...
Their break from Buckley scattered them, for these were extreme individualists with no convenient enemy like communism to buckle them into a cohesive group. A few, like the Chicago community at the New Individualist Review or the Colorado congregation at Rampart College focused on attacking Buckley as a detractor of...
In California, as elsewhere, many disaffected rightists turned to Ayn Rand; whose objectivist teachings elevated capitalism from economics to religion. Rand shares Buckley's fear, if not his paranoia, about communism; but she philosophizes that communism can be defeated only by capitalism-the rational, selfish, non-altruistic, objective relationship of...
Many Libertarians have had at least an affection for Miss Rand, but many have rejected her. Some complain that she is romantic rather than logical, that she is at best a "pseudo-philosopher." Others have "spun out" logically; starting with the premise that the best government is the least government...
And because of the configuration of social and personal influences on young people, more Libertarians are discovering themselves within Y. A. F. all the time. One project among some long-time Libertarians is to induce young would-be conservatives to use marijuana; "once they turn on," one explained, "they can...