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	Libertarian Socialism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Libertarian Socialism recognizes that the concept of "property" (specifically, the means of production, factories, land used for profit, rented space) is theft and that in a truly libertarian society, the individual would be free of exploitation caused by the concentration of all means of wealth-making into the hands of an elite minority of capitalists.
		Libertarian socialists understand that it is the workers who create and maintain everything in the world, and they do not need leaders to direct them in the affairs of their lives.
		Libertarian socialists are against all forms of coercion, state and capitalist, and do not seek to regulate human behaviors by way of the state, including such issues as possession of firearms, drugs, sexual conduct between consenting individuals, and related issues.
	flag.blackened.net /liberty/libsoc.html (2743 words)

	Libertarians.Net - libertarian periodicals (paper) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Strictly speaking, a libertarian is one who rejects the idea of using violence or the threat of violence -- legal or illegal -- to impose his will or viewpoint upon any peaceful person.
		We hold that all individuals have the right to exercise sole dominion over their own lives, and have the right to live in whatever manner they choose, so long as they do not forcibly interfere with the equal right of others to live in whatever manner they choose.
		"A libertarian is a person who believes that no one has the right, under any circumstances, to initiate force against another human being, or to advocate or delegate its initiation.
	www.libertarians.net /lib-m-p.html (232 words)

	Science Fiction and Politics Study
		Science fiction is one of the few places in popular culture where extreme examples of anomalous life are often considered.
		Dangerous automata began to appear in fiction in the early 1800s, and the term "robot," from the Czech for worker, was coined in a 1922 play, and dangerous robots and computers have been a staple of science fiction since the '50s, when the first warehouse-sized calculators pointed to the possibility of a cybernetic future.
		While science fiction has rarely dealt with abortion and brain-death formally, the logical corollary of extending citizenship to intelligent non-humans is that ethical boundaries should be contingent upon cognition and personhood, and not on human form.
	www.changesurfer.com /Acad/SFutures.html (4164 words)

	SF Signal: SF Tidbits for 8/23/06
		It is difficult to be in favor of science and progress without being impressed with the sheer romance and wonder of the adventure of progress, to delight in skyscrapers and submarines and supersonic planes, computers and cathode rays, and other breakthroughs of human inventiveness that the industrial revolution ushered into human history.
		Libertarianism is also quintessentially American: it is as fervid and utopian as the Puritan movement which founded the country, and takes certain strands of American political philosophy, the free market and the rugged individualism of the pioneer, and draws them out to their logical (some would say absurd) conclusions.
		Again, if libertarians are concerned with the nuts-and-bolts of their proposed libertarian utopias, it is a natural step to portray these fictional societies as the backdrop to a story set in the future: if you are going to speculate about possible economic and political systems, speculative fiction easily lends itself to your needs.
	www.sfsignal.com /archives/004226.html (538 words)

	The SF Site: Geeks With Books by Rick Klaw
		The plethora of libertarian science fiction from writers such as L. Neil Smith, Robert Heinlein, Ken MacLeod, Poul Anderson and others led to the establishment of the Prometheus Award.
		Libertarian socialism is a political philosophy dedicated to opposing coercive forms of authority and social hierarchy, most famously the institutions of government and capitalism.
		Libertarian socialists believe in the abolition of privately held means of production and abolition of the state as an unnecessary and harmful institution.
	www.sfsite.com /columns/geeks183.htm (1510 words)

	David Brin's Official Web Site: Keynote for the Libertarian Party National Convention, July 5, 2002 (article)
		It is an insult to true libertarianism, redolent of the Look-Back view and the crutch of believing in a sacred-lost state of grace.
		If libertarianism achieved its deserved place on the political landscape, this group would be the strong and worthy adversary for you to compete with openly, offering sovereign citizens differing ideas about how to create a better world.
		This Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Net Ring link is maintained by David Brin.
	www.davidbrin.com /libertarianarticle3.html (2453 words)

	Warmongering 'Libertarians'
		The Libertarian Party requires its members to sign a pledge, which states, "I hereby certify that I do not believe in or advocate the initiation of force to achieve social or political goals." This pledge is one statement of the non-aggression principle.
		We may answer the question, what is a libertarian, with science fiction writer and long time libertarian L.
		Neil Smith, "A libertarian is a person who believes that no one has the right, under any circumstances, to initiate force against another human being, or to advocate or delegate its initiation.
	www.lewrockwell.com /orig2/curley4.html (970 words)

	Science fiction Archives \| Samizdata.net
		Yet, just as the new pulp genre of science fiction showed that the horizons of plausibility were widening, the Macguffins deployed by the creators of superheroes hinted that such transformations were not too far away for humanity itself.
		Science fiction/fantasy authors often inform how we see the real world and it is no accident that Heinlein is so popular with libertarians and libertarian oriented conservatives.
		I generally exclude Rand as a science fiction writer only because she didn't know that Anthem and Atlas Shrugged are science fiction -- and that science fiction is the "literature of ideas" that she erroneously believed detective fiction to be.
	www.samizdata.net /blog/archives/cat_science_fiction.html (7808 words)

	Libertarian Party of Canada (Prairie Caucus) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Libertarians are, as a result, deeply concerned by the obstacle that National Register of Voters poses to our Canadian democracy.
		Libertarians cannot stop their relentless effort to keep communicating ideas for individual freedom; for there is clearly a growing audience to listen....
		Alan is an energic and hardworking member of the Libertarian Party from the Ontario caucus and has distinguished himself as a leader in the libertarian political movement.
	lpcsaskatchewan.blogspot.com (3064 words)

	Dismantling Leviathan From Within, Part IV:
		I began this series by asking you to imagine that libertarians had come to power in the tiny country of East Zimiamvia, and were preparing to dismantle the apparatus of state power and create a free society.
		Second, the negotiations for territory in which to create a "libertarian homeland" should be constructed with as much publicity and P. as possible, in order to win sympathy and support in the forum of world opinion and thus discourage other nations from hindering us.
		In F. Paul Wilson's libertarian science-fiction novel An Enemy of the State, a key element in the free nation movement's strategy is to build up a hoard of gold over the years, for rapid distribution to the populace of the prospective free nation when the hour of transition arrives.
	www.libertariannation.org /a/f33l3.html (3849 words)

	But Is It Science Fiction? Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged
		Rand was the Mother of the philosophy Objectivism; her teachings are a major influence in the Libertarian political movement.
		Ayn Rand (1905-1982) was born in Russia and saw first-hand the intellectual, social, and economic destruction caused by the rise of Communism.
		Libertarian Party - official website of the Libertarian Party, whose political viewpoint is heavily influenced by Rand's teachings.
	www.scifidimensions.com /May00/books_ayn_rand.htm (1065 words)

	july 15, 2003 archives @ trainedmonkey
		(in the first book, it is between a more authoritarian version of the united states and a libertarian version of the same, with most of the action set in the libertarian version.
		as science fiction with a futuristic bent (neither book is set in the far-future, but of course the libertarian version of the united states is further advanced than any of the alternatives), the book falls pretty flat.
		but i guess you'd be gratified to know that it fits the same vaguely, if not overtly, misogynistic bill as most science fiction.
	trainedmonkey.com /2003/7/15 (480 words)

	Libertarians.Net Home Page
		Libertarian Party Announcements Press releases and other official public announcements (approx.
		Libertarian Clips News clippings from Advocates for Self-Government.
		Many other libertarian organizations also have announcement lists to keep people informed of their specific activities -- see their web sites for more information.
	www.libertarians.net (382 words)

	Samuel E. Konkin III
		Sam's influence on libertarian science fiction was pervasive.
		Sam considered that fiction and drama -- in particular science fiction and fantasy -- were more important in changing society than nonfiction, and he made it a point to surround himself with talented novelists, playwrights, and screenwriters.
		He did not consider science fiction and fantasy peripheral to his work as a libertarian, but the centerpiece of it.
	www.karlhessclub.org /sek.htm (1607 words)

	Dismantling Leviathan
		Libertarians who oppose the project of seeking political power in order to dismantle the state offer both a Principled Objection — that libertarians inside government cannot achieve their aims without violating people's rights — and a Pragmatic Objection — that such a project, even if morally permissible, is self-defeating.
		If the liberalization process proceeds fast enough, then by the time the libertarian politician has weakened enough to succumb to the temptations of power, the power he or she was tempted to use may have largely dwindled away.
		On the other hand, if the worry is that the public will misperceive libertarian political action as sanctioning the state, I reply with a tu quoque; for the public is equally likely to misperceive the strategy of the anti-political libertarians, mistaking their principled renunciation of electoral politics for apathy and defeatism.
	libertariannation.org /a/f32l1.html (3521 words)

	Being Libertarian
		Most regard Libertarianism as a political stance, and to some degree it is. But it's more than that.
		Put another way, being libertarian means you don't care what anybody else does with their life as long as what they do doesn't harm anyone else.
		Being a libertarian means you believe in personal freedom and self responsibility.
	traevoli.com /libertarian.php (607 words)

	Associations. Science Fiction Crowsnest. The SF / fantasy search engine & magazine.
		MonSFFA is the Montreal Science Fiction and Fantasy Association, a club for fans of the science fiction and fantasy genres.
		The SFRA is the oldest professional organization for the study of science fiction and fantasy literature and film.
		Founded with the aim of promoting Science Fiction fandom in Wales, by bringing together SF groups, fanzine publishers, convention organisers and individuals.
	www.sfcrowsnest.com /directory/fdassoc.shtml (647 words)

	AlterNet: Libertarians in Space
		Anarcho-capitalist utopias in science fiction point to the dangers of libertarianism as an ideology.
		Smith is like most American libertarian sci-fi writers in that he’s essentially a small-town boy trapped in a big world populated by people and ideas he doesn’t understand.
		I still believe the libertarian analysis of power as corrupting and the state as intrinsically threatening to the individual is accurate.
	www.alternet.org /story.html?StoryID=13167 (1513 words)

	The Shadow of the Ship - Robert Wilfred Franson
		Science fiction writers have often expressed many libertarian ideas in their writing, and science fiction has been a significant stimulus to the libertarian movement and to many individual libertarians.
		Interstellar travel takes place, not by starship, but by caravan, through an alternate spacetime which appears as a vast dark plain crossed by glowing trails; an animal species, the waybeasts, has evolved the ability to cross into this space, and is used to pull long caravan trains.
		At the same time, the story conveys a point sometimes left out of libertarian panegyrics to individualism: cooperation is essential to survival under the conditions portrayed, and libertarian values are successful precisely because they offer a superior form of cooperation which can nurture a more effective self-reliance.
	www.troynovant.com /Stoddard/Franson/Shadow-of-the-Ship.html (558 words)

	The Autonomist - Libertarian Links
		Center for Libertarian Studies Exploration of libertarian theory and practice in the vision of Murray N. Rothbard.
		Libertarian Futurist Society Recognizes and promotes libertarian science fiction and presents the annual Prometheus Award for best libertarian novel.
		Libertarian Nation Foundation A libertarian think tank working toward attaining a free nation by building visions of the institutions in that free nation.
	usabig.com /autonomist/libertarian_links.html (387 words)

	Locus Interviews Ken MacLeod » Solar Flare: Science Fiction News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		I think this is a very true statement since the process of extrapolation would require far more facts than science fiction ever has at its fingertips to work with.
		Which is probably why I enjoy his writing so much, but rarely read other libertarian science fiction.
		While it has a thriller-like plot and pace, it is a science fiction novel and not a technothriller, because in a technothriller the world goes back to normal — the evil scientists are stopped, and everything returns to the status quo.
	www.sflare.com /archives/locus-interviews-ken-macleod (496 words)

	LP News June 1998 - News Briefs
		And four libertarian works are included on the online bookstore's list of 15 bestselling "Political History, Theory and Biography" books: Libertarianism: A Primer by David Boaz (#5); What it Means to be a Libertarian, by Charles Murray (#7); The Libertarian Reader, by David Boaz, editor (#11); and Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal, by Ayn Rand (#14).
		A Libertarian in appointed office in Oregon started saving taxpayers money on his first day on the job -- by requesting that his salary be cut.
		The Libertarian Party was included in a joke printed by the San Antonio Express-News -- but the punch line was the foolishness of the Democrats.
	www.lp.org /lpn/9806-briefs.html (665 words)

	Libertarian Novels
		It wasn't just the libertarian world he portrayed in The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, but also the fact he portrayed the characters in nearly all of his stories as competent, can-do people.
		Ludwig von Mises and Murray Rothbard, for two examples, spent their lives imagining fully-realized libertarian worlds, and wrote about them in the hope others would read of them and be convinced of the truth of their positions.
		A libertarian world, for example, is as close to an ideal world as there can be.
	www.strike-the-root.com /51/wallace/wallace4.html (847 words)

	Guns, Scifi, and Electronic Publishing
		Neil Schulman is the author of the libertarian science fiction novels Alongside Night and The Rainbow Cadenza.
		At the time we met I had started a libertarian group on the campus of the Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York (BMCC, CUNY) and Sam was a graduate student at New York University (NYU), where Sam published a libertarian newsletter, NYU (New) Libertarian Notes.
		If a book isn't marketed as one of the twenty or so fiction or nonfiction books each season which is intended to compete for bestseller shelf space, it's an economically submarginal proposition for an author to make a full-time living writing books.
	www.pulpless.com /jneil/mingardi.html (1960 words)

	Salon Books \| A Trotskyist libertarian cyberpunk? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Maybe we should be glad that no one else in science fiction is concocting puns that mix dialectical materialism with nerd culture; there's no doubt that such jokes can get old fast.
		If it's not the anarchic warfare among fundamentalist Christians, libertarian "space movement" fans, Green environmentalist barbarians and the ominous Men in Black, then it's the posthumans, smart guns and autonomous artificial intelligences who are pushing the story forward at breakneck speed.
		Well, one of the fixtures of Macleod's fiction is the fact that technology has advanced to the point where humans can perpetually rejuvenate their bodies.
	www.salon.com /books/feature/1999/07/27/macleod_review (1039 words)

	LP News Jan98 - The Mailbox
		Sabrin was perceived as the "Right-to-Life" candidate in a race against a pro-choice Democrat and a Republican governor who had vetoed a late-term abortion ban from her Republican legislature.
		That is a good answer for Libertarians who believe that way -- but at least a few newspaper editorials and columnists commented on the apparent contradiction regarding less government.
		When we as Libertarians adopt the Leviathan's tactics to defeat it, we should remember the admonition: Beware of dragons, for if you slay too many you risk becoming one.
	www.lp.org /lpn/9801-letters.html (1225 words)

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