Comments | theoldanarchist: Pat Buchanan, anti-imperialist? Or, everything Old (Right) is New (Left) again;

theoldanarchist

Pat Buchanan, anti-imperialist? Or, everything Old (Right) is New (Left) again;

Jan 10, 2007 12:12

Or, the beards have all grown longer over night...

Reading his newest article over at lewrockwell.com, one would get the impression that Patrick J. Buchanan is an anti-war and anti-imperialist paleocon who is sick and tired of seeing the neocons use the military might of the United States to remake the world according to their own utopian vision. ( Read more... )

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anonymous January 11 2007, 00:19:12 UTC

In my days as a high-school libertarian in 1979-1980, I was all over Rothbard's Libertarian Forum, subscribing to it, Inquiry, and The Libertarian Review, as well as National Review and The New Republic. Rothbard's hope for a left-right fusion of anti-militarists dates back not just to the 1960s (see also the mid-1960s journal Left and Right, and The New Individualist Review [1961-1968], a remarkable publication launched by University of Chicago graduate students of F.A. Hayek, Milton Friedman and Richard Weaver, available from Liberty Fund in a one-volume complete run), but to the late 1940s and his involvement with Students for Thurmond, the old "states-rights" then-Democrat! There is much fascinating archival material about for those interested ( ... )

Land and Freedom! I actually mean it! theoldanarchist January 11 2007, 05:45:49 UTC

I am serious about this anti-imperialist project, Scott, and I appreciate any thoughts, suggestions, or (even) damnation you may care to offer. Land and Freedom is a good slogan, and I would march under that banner against feudal lord, commisar, bureaucrat, or capitalist.

Rothbard's hope for a left-right fusion of anti-militarists dates back not just to the 1960s (see also the mid-1960s journal Left and Right...

Oh yes, I knew I was forgetting something! And LandR is available online, as well. I should provide a link for that.

I've found myself drawn less to the libertarian... fold of my youth, and found renewed attraction in the independent, broadly cultivated, decentralist anarchist humanists ... along with such old-style synoptic cultural historians as Jacques Barzun... Barzun is one I have been meaning to look into. I cannot remember whether I saw him mentioned in Donald Miller's biography of Lewis Mumford or not, but something recently just resparked my interest. It may have been Barzun... no, looking again, I see that ( ... )