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Dates: during 1970-1970
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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...
The national convention of the "New Conservative" Young Americans for Freedom held late this past summer in St. Louis revealed symptoms of a deep schizophrenia in the participants. The factions which aired their differences have been privately at odds for a long time, but now their differences have escalated into...
Y. A. F. was 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...
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...