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A libertarian is a person who believes that no one has the right, under any circumstances, to initiate force against another human being for any reason whatever; nor will a libertarian advocate the initiation of force, or delegate it to anyone else.
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Issue Number 1,219, August 6, 2023
The Editor’s Notes
by Charles Curley [email protected] Special to L. Neil Smith’s The Libertarian Enterprise In This Issue L. Neil returns in high dudgeon on another idea for a campaign to get our liberties back. Benjamin Williams unpacks Soviet Russia's and Stalin's terrible...
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Resistance to Tyranny
by L. Neil Smith [email protected] Special to L. Neil Smith’s The Libertarian Enterprise The news last week, to quote Walter Cronkite, was "filled with those events that alter and illuminate our times". And seldom have times more badly needed altering—although I'm...
Why the Alliance between Stalin and Hitler Must Never Be Forgotten
by Benjamin Williams https://fee.org/people/ben/ Special to L. Neil Smith’s The Libertarian Enterprise World War II was one of the most catastrophic periods in human history, marked by unprecedented violence, genocide, and destruction. Yet, while the war's narrative...
Lord Cardigan and Doctor Taza
by Eric Oppen [email protected] Exclusive to L. Neil Smith’s The Libertarian Enterprise Bn the 19th century, the British Army had a problem. After the Napoleonic Wars, it had had little of importance to do. In this atmosphere, the evils of the “purchase” system...
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