NEGATIVE:
Objectivists Are
a Type of Libertarian
NATHANIEL BRANDEN
“IF THE DEFINING characteristic of the libertarian movement was
noninitiation of physical force...and if politically they are not
advocating anything that contradicts our wider philosophic
viewpoint, then it’s completely unreasonable to require them
all to be Objectivists....Libertarianism has come to be under-
stood as the political theory which holds to a minimalist view of
the proper function of government, and to that extent Objectiv-
ists are libertarians! You can say we’re Objectivist libertarians,
we’re not Catholic libertarians, we’re not anarchist libertar-
ians, fine, but we’re libertarians.”NATHAN I EL B R AN D EN (1 930 –2014) was the founder of the self- e steem
movement and a prominent proponent of Objectivism. This passage is from a
1998 interview conducted by Reason’s B rian Doher t y.“ ... this remarkable book
be gan as an academic thesis written in 1972...
The book is much more than an academic thesis, though;it is a distinguished addition to libertarian thought.”
- David Gordon, Mises Institute
The marriage of Rand and Rothbard.
The unified theory
of philosophy and economics.AVAILABLE IN SOFTCOVER OR EBOOK AT AMAZON.COM
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