Death to the Party!
Kn@ppster is worried that Ron Paul is destroying the Libertarian Party. I don’t believe the libertarian movement could be so lucky.
Ladies and gentlemen, here’s the text of a classic pamphlet from “ultra faction MLL“, and Victor Koman in particular (circa sometime in the 1980’s), that I discovered as images a while back on flag.blackened.net — Death to the Party!
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Death to the Party!
Those of you who still love Liberty and Freedom, listen! Those of you not poisoned by the dope of Power, hear me! Those of you not yet shipwrecked by the Sirens of statism, read this! That most evil of temptors, the State itself, is seducing you in the dark alley which is the Party. Do not be deceived and led into dishonor.
The Party is the State. How can anything be more plain or more obvious? The rotting corpse of government has burst forth, spewing out a new breed of maggots to infect us and spread the disease of slavery, plunder and murder. For a Party exists only to put people into power. Don’t be hoodwinked by lies about “education.” Einstein needed no Party to get his ideas to the world. Nor did Spooner, nor Rand, nor Paine, nor any man or woman with the truth. Truth needs no Party.
The idea of Libertarianism is Liberty. The idea of the Party is Government. The only “education” requiring a Party is “education” in Statism. Ask a Cambodian, if you can find one.
And what will you learn from such an education? The philosophy of Atilla. The metaphysics of Stalin. The biology of Leviathan.
He who serves the Party serves the State. She who supports the Party supports the Statist quo. They who defend the Party defend those who would hunt us down and kill us.
By groveling before the altar of the almighty Vote, you are not turning the sword of the State against itself — you are sharpening its blade. By drawing others into political Sodomy, you are not disarming the guns of the State — you are providing them with fresh bullets! And by wasting your time learning to plot and betray, compromise and backstab, you are not bleeding the State — the State is bleeding you!
Those of you who claim to defend Liberty, tell me this: if the system you oppose is corrupt and evil, how can you change it by joining it, by saying “This is a place I belong, a system I endorse,” by embracing it? Do you not become as evil and corrupt?
Can you change the Mafia by becoming a Don or even the Capo? Can you stop the NKVD by becoming its head axeman? Can you reform the Gestapo by becoming an agent willing to “work within the system?” Can you stop destruction by becoming the destroyer?
I SAY NO! I say that to help the Party is to lock chains around the necks of Libertarians everywhere and lead us to death. I say that the Party is as foul and corrupt as the State to which it toadies. I say that the smallest quantum of aid or solace to the Party is open, blatant support of everything Libertarians find hideous and repugnant.
The Party is Death.
The Party must die.
Long live Freedom!
Generally speaking, the work of the old Movement of the Libertarian Left is continued today by the Alliance of the Libertarian Left.
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The Libertarian Party is a stain on the ideal of freedom. It is quite embarrassing.
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What gets me is Tom’s emphasis on party over ideas. Even if Ron Paul is the humongous hypocrite that Knapp describes him as, as a consequence of his run he’s airing ideas in the mainstream that would’ve never seen the light of day before. Hell, in one of the debates he openly said that our foreign policy is designed by and for the benefit of oil companies. Democrats got skewered for even so much as hinting 1/10th that kind of thing, now all of a sudden this old guy says it at a freakin’ Republican debate?
Way I see it, if anything his campaign — more accurately, its inevitable crash & burn — could help left-libertarians. The possibility is that people see the gist of what he says, notice how the media & political elite slam him as a crank for it, and realize the problem is the political system itself. For the freedom oriented that still vote, Ron Paul, as a reformist, is Plan A; if we play our cards right, outright rejection of the State can gain popularity as Plan B.
I’ve been posting different fliers like this around my town to try and stir up some organization. I think I will use this, I especially love the pictures and screaming Death to _______! Is always fun. ;)