Libertarians are not supposed to be egalitarians And yet there it is: egalitarianism has become the unspoken but very real driving force in the current Official movement. Once group egalitarianism becomes the norm, other groups than blacks will clamor for the privileges of victim status. Sure enough, that jostling for victim privilege is now the major hallmark of American politics.The Official libertarians have so far not displayed enormous affinity for Latino or disabled rights, but they are highly enthusiastic about the rights of women and feminism generally. And in particular, libertarians have displayed great fervor for gay rights and stress the evils of discrimination against gays. So ardently are libertarians devoted to gay rights that the word libertarian in the public press has now become almost a code word for champion of gay rights.Only his pro-gay agenda accounts for the ardor of Republican libertarians toward Massachusetts Governor Weld, whom they embrace as, in the current slogan, fiscally conservative but socially tolerant. (The fiscally conservative refers to a one-time budget cut followed, the next time around, by a compensatory budget increase.) Socially tolerant, in the current atmosphere, means a devotion to the entire Left cultural agenda, from gay rights to compulsory multicultural propaganda and condomization in the public schools.
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Murray N. Rothbard was a 20th-century American economist. Murray Newton Rothbard was an American economist of the Austrian School, economic historian, political theorist, and activist. Rothbard was a central figure in the 20th-century American libertarian movement, particularly its right-wing strands, and was a founder and leading theoretician of anarcho-capitalism. Read more on Wikipedia →