Symposium: anti-electoralism in the libertarian movement
If you haven’t noticed yet, the Rational Review weekly symposium (or, actually, post dedicated to comments & discussion on a topic) for this week is Party on/Party off — an examination of Rothbard’s response to Konkin’s New Libertarian Manifesto. Konkin, in NLM, put forth a revolutionary strategy for the promotion of the libertarian goal of an anarchistic society. Rothbard responds in the linked piece to Konkin’s scorn for voting and political parties (among other things). As a point of clarification, Konkin’s “anti-political” approach might be best understood as analogous to the extraparliamentary politics typical of revolutionary Marxists and other far left groups, in that it’s actually intensely political in some senses of the word. Discuss there in the comments.
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