Blogroll: Carol Moore
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I owe a fair amount of where I am today in terms of my political views to Carol, albeit only partially and indirectly. It was right around the time of the 2003 Iraq invasion, as I recall. I was among a bunch of newbies on the email list of Carol’s Libertarians for Peace initiative. Taken aback by the surge of pro-war sentiment from libertarians — the people that were supposed to be on our team — a lot of us were asking ourselves and each other: “WTF? Libertarians for Peace? How the HELL did we get to be a god-damned FACTION?“.
I mean, seriously, the understanding that war is mass murder is libertarianism 101.
I then went through a period of questioning and looking for answers, a time that was severely emotionally painful for me because of the time and effort I had put into the Libertarian Party over the years. Try as I might, I could not maintain the self-deception that the Libertarian Party — or any political party — is the best way to carry forward libertarian ideals. The logical culmination of those ideals is a stateless society, and no political party can give us that.
I became an agorist.
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