A Real "Libertarian" Bozo
Dan Clore
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A Real "Libertarian" Bozo
by Dan Clore
In the Dallas Libertarian Examiner, writer Garry Reed responded to the
news of the recent founding of a Danish group calling itself Libertaere
Socialister, or Libertarian Socialists, with a column entitled "Calling
all Stalinist-Jeffersonian-Bozoian Libertarians", claiming that the
Danes had stolen the term "libertarian" from the Libertarian Right in
America, and that combining libertarianism with socialism made as much
sense as combining the politics of Joseph Stalin, Thomas Jefferson, and
Bozo the Clown. Several libertarian socialists responded, pointing out
(sometimes somewhat rudely) that traditional anarchists, on the
Libertarian Left, had used the label "libertarian" for over a century
before the Libertarian Right adopted it.
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Skipper: Professor, will you tell these people who is
in charge on this island?
Professor: Why, no one.
Skipper: No one?
Thurston Howell III: No one? Good heavens, this is anarchy!
-- _Gilligan's Island_, episode #6, "President Gilligan"