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Subject: Eric Frank Russell
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Date: Thu, 16-Jun-83 09:01:15 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 16 09:01:15 1983
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From:  DAVID.LEWIN  

I'm not sure that I'd consider Eric Frank Russell a libertarian, since
it seems that libertarianism implies a particular economic arrangement,
free-market capitalism. He was, indeed, a pacifist/anarchist in many of
his writings--including "And Then There Were None", otherwise known as
"The Great Explosion". Two of his best stories are "Late Night Final",
which definitely shows his idea of a mature civilization, and "I Am Nothing"
--in which afuture Alexander is "conquered" by a little girl.

Other stories involving non-libertarian anarchism include Sturgeon's "The 
Skills of Xanadu" and LeGuin's "The Dispossessed".
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