The Enemy Is Always the State (Lew Rockwell)

Lew Rockwell says that libertarianism is not about left or right or the issues they hold dear, but is all about diminishing the power of the greatest enemy of all, the state:

The web loves nothing more than a good brawl, so people often write me to ask me to respond to a critic of LRC or the Mises Institute. There's certainly no shortage of them, and they come from the left, the right, and everything in between. My first thought on the request is that the archive speaks for itself, and a response would amount to little more than reprinting. And yet the criticisms in themselves are interesting because often they come from people who liked one thing we said and then felt betrayed by another thing we said, so we get praise for the first thing and attacked for the second thing.

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