Libertarian socialism, or I’m Proud I Was a Goldwater Girl’

This is the type of “conservatism” that the national news is always speaking about, and what gave us the Libertarian Party (not to be confused with real libertarians) …

“That’s right. And I feel like my political beliefs are rooted in the conservatism that I was raised with. I don’t recognize this new brand of Republicanism that is afoot now, which I consider to be very reactionary, not conservative in many respects. I am very proud that I was a Goldwater girl.” Hillary Clinton

“I was also an active Young Republican and, later, a Goldwater girl, right down to my cowgirl outfit and straw cowboy hat emblazoned with the slogan “AuH20.” … I liked Senator Goldwater because he was a rugged individualist who swam against the political tide.” Hillary Clinton’s autobiography, “Living History” page 21.

Draft-card burning was a symbol of protest performed by thousands of young American men as part of the opposition to the involvement of the United States in the Vietnam War. Beginning in May 1964 some activists burned their draft cards at anti-war rallies and demonstrations.

 
By May 1965 it was happening with greater frequency. To limit this kind of protest, in August 1965, the United States Congress amendmented the Selective Service Act of 1948 to broaden draft card violations to punish anyone who “knowingly destroys, knowingly mutilates” his draft card.

 
On October 15, 1965, David J. Miller burned his draft card at a rally held near the Armed Forces Induction Center on Whitehall Street in Manhattan. The 24-year-old pacifist, member of the Catholic Worker Movement, became the first man convicted under the 1965 amendment. The Catholic Worker considered itself a Christian anarchist movement.

 
David Nolan was a member of Young Americans for Freedom in 1969 when more than 300 anarchist libertarians organized to take control of the organization from conservatives. Many walked out after a physical confrontation sparked by the burning of a draft card in protest to a conservative proposal against draft resistance. Later, David Nolan and other dissident members of Young Americans for Freedom and European libertarians would officially found the Libertarian Party on December 11, 1971.

 
“The Libertarian National Committee hereby reaffirms that the Libertarian Party welcomes individuals from across the political spectrum who now accept the libertarian principles of self-ownership and non-aggression.” David Nolan

 
Now, we come to one of the roots of the problem:

 
The basic unit of society according to the bible is the family:

 
Genesis 2:24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

 
Notice, in a Libertarian article called, Was Dorothy Day a Libertarian?, by By Ellen Finnigan that for an anarchist libertarian the individual is the “basic unit of society”. And if we just think for a moment, at the core of being an anarchist is the warning found in our bibles of which it speaks of not rebelling against ones father and mother.

“Dorothy Day founded the Catholic Workers in 1933, a movement based on radical activism… Dorothy Day and her mentor, Peter Maurin, founded the movement, because they believed that the Catholic Church had developed an unhealthy alignment with the State, and was spending too much time accumulating property and wealth, not enough time helping the common man. As a result, the Catholic Workers developed a fiercely independent, anti-institution mentality…
Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin did not call themselves libertarians (the term didn’t become commonplace until the 70s); on the contrary, they called themselves socialists. But they believed in a socialism that was anti-collectivist: They named it economic volunteerism, or Christian communism. Someone once told Peter Maurin that he spoke like an anarchist, and he responded, “Sure I’m an anarchist. All thinking people are anarchists, but I prefer the name personalist.”
It is difficult to define, in terms of a political system, what the Catholic Worker movement stood for, because their philosophy of personalism, which lies at the heart of their ideas, is inherently antithetical to the objectivism, centralization and institutionalism that characterize the activities of the State. Personalism is the view that the human person is the basic unit of society…”

Look in your bibles and just try to find anywhere we are told that a Christian is an individual. We find individuals who have been saved by being “born again”; but no where is an individual said to be a Christian.

“Under the conditions of radical anarchy there will be some women, as there will he some men, of more relative worth than others. There will be children and there will be old folks, but all, without distinction, will be none the less human beings and they should he equally free to move in the circles of their mutual attractions, free to produce and consume as they see fit, without any parental, marital or governmental authority, without any legal regulations to restrain or to hinder them.”  Joseph Déjacque, (Libertarian socialist), On the Human Being, Male and Female, 1857

“’It is a peculiar fact’ stated Engels a few months after Marx died, ‘that with every great revolutionary movement the question of ‘free love’ comes to the foreground’.’ By the mid- to late-nineteenth century it was clear to advocates and opponents alike that many socialists shared a propensity to reject the institution of the family in favour of ‘free love’, if not in practice, at least as an ideal.”  RICHARD WEIKART, MARX, ENGELS, AND THE ABOLITION OF THE FAMILY, History of European Ideas, Vol. 18, No. 5, pp. 657-672, 1994

Like all communists, the end result is to destroy the family in support of “free love”.