Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 alpha 4/15/85; site ucbvax.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!ucbvax!mwm From: mwm@ucbvax.ARPA (Mike (I'll be mellow when I'm dead) Meyer) Newsgroups: net.politics.theory Subject: Re: Democracy vs. Autocracy: "Libert"arian's freedom? Message-ID: <8472@ucbvax.ARPA> Date: Tue, 25-Jun-85 10:34:49 EDT Article-I.D.: ucbvax.8472 Posted: Tue Jun 25 10:34:49 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 26-Jun-85 06:40:29 EDT References: <298@spar.UUCP> <2380037@acf4.UUCP> <166@pedsgd.UUCP> <8414@ucbvax.ARPA> <666@whuxl.UUCP> Reply-To: mwm@ucbvax.UUCP (Mike (I'll be mellow when I'm dead) Meyer) Organization: Missionaria Phonibalonica Lines: 20 In article <666@whuxl.UUCP> orb@whuxl.UUCP (SEVENER) writes: >> I'd recommend this book to everyone, but RAH espouses things so far out of >> fashion that the left compares him to the Nazis. Just imagine, thinking that >> personal responsibility and meeting your commitments are good ideas. Not to >> mention attacking the church, slavery, and espousing freedom in general >>>Who really espouses "freedom"? > tim sevener whuxl!orb You're right, tim - it was the indeed the "left" who did all those things. Then again, if you read RAH, you'll find that he does indeed take the stands I claim he takes. So why does the left (or some members of it) denigrate him? Maybe it's the "personal responsibility" and other such libertarian notions that bother them.