Monday, April 20, 2009

“Two Pence” on the Tea Parties

Roderick T. Long, who is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Auburn University, provides his two pence on the tea party movement in a post titled Tea and Sympathy.  The concluding paragraph.

Is it worth libertarians’ and/or anarchists’ while to participate in such events? Sure; because while the voices at the podium tend to be statist apparatchiks, the crowds will tend to be a mixture of statist yahoos and genuinely libertarian-leaning folks, and outreach to the latter is always worth a try – in Kierkegaard’s words, “to split up the crowd, or to talk to it, not to form a crowd, but so that one or another individual might go home from the assembly and become a single individual.” But of course the organisers of such events are on the lookout for us and always do their best to try to narrow the boundaries of discussion.

Posted by John Venlet on 04/20 at 09:18 AM
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