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The Attack on Libertarianism by Aaron David Ward http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig8/ward-aaron4.html The End of Libertarianism: The financial collapse proves that its ideology makes no sense by Jacob Weisberg http://www.slate.com/id/2202489/ The three variants of libertarianism (classical liberalism, laissez-faire capitalism, and anarcho-capitalism), only one of which is logical (market anarchism and voluntarism, i.e., anarcho-capitalism, i.e., complete liberty) Capitalism And Current Political Views: http://www.logicallearning.net/libcapitalismpol.html Either you advocate statism or you don't; there's no wiggle room for a night-watchman State that allegedly would respect rights Libertarianism isn't on the continuum of statism, so it's neither left nor right The nature of human autonomy and the nature of reality We must show respect for each other; logic demands it; each person is deserving of respect and happiness The initiation of force is anti-reason and anti-life If you do not define your terms properly, it will lead you down contradictory paths http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/definitions.html We don't have "self-regulating financial markets," by any stretch of the imagination A communized fiat currency and a host of regulatory "agencies" are the main economic problems, not "unregulated credit market derivatives" Modern intellectuals' denial of individuals and focus on politics in midstream (out-of-context analysis) Alan Greenspan's betrayal of his own earlier views: Gold and Economic Freedom by Alan Greenspan (1966) http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north204.html Our present fiat currency (dollars) would disappear quickly in a free market, and be replace by gold and silver (or any other tangible commodity that can't be dramatically inflated and devalued) Regulation always compounds the political problem (whatever it is) and it obscures the real nature of the injustice (coercion) as well as the solution (get rid of the institution of government) Cato and Reason "libertarian" think tanks as apologists for statism; neither strikes at the root of the problem (government itself) The analytic/synthetic dichotomy in modern philosophy http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/analytic.html The arbitrary division of rationalism and empiricism http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/rationalismvsempiricism.html http://www.logicallearning.net/libfreewill.html The basic metaphysical/epistemological issue is how well do one's concepts adhere to the facts of reality The concepts of libertarianism adhere perfectly to the facts of reality, because they are in accordance with a non-contradictory (logical) view of human nature; any other interpretation, any version of statism, would be contradictory Those who believe in "government" are supporting the bully mentality writ large, institutionalized disrespect of persons and their property Those who believe in "government" deny the irrefutable principles of property rights and self-ownership What we need are new intellectuals, able to think logically and objectively, especially in relation to challenging the meme of government (which Ayn Rand failed to do, though ironically she did denounce statism) http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/intellectuals.html Brief clip of Ayn Rand on the New Intellectuals http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xKGZMwaIG8 Freedom—An Intellectual Issue:

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