Movement in Motion

No more running down the wrong road
Dancing to a different drum
Can't you see what's going on
Deep inside your heart?
--Michael McDonald

Lew Rockwell argues that the libertarian movement is not a future event. It is well underway. Media can no longer ignore libertarian ideas, particularly as young people devour classics by Mises, Rothbard, Hayek, Hazlitt, et al.

Discussions are active that would have been dismissed not long ago. What is the proper role of government? Do bailouts do more harm than good? How can economic situations improve simply by printing more money? How can a people borrow their way out of debt? Why isn't the best foreign policy simply to trade freely with all?

These are not new questions. Our founding ancestors pondered them in depth. Over the past century or so, however, these issues have been pushed aside by claims that these questions are old-fashioned and out of date. People have been distracted by smokescreens of sophistry.

An attractive feature of libertarian philosophy is its simplicity. Libertarianism opposes aggression, period. This spawns another another intellectually attractive feature: consistency. Any policy or program grounded in taking property from some is undesirable and wrong. Unlike other political philosophies, offensive force is not rationalized. 

Libertarianism is a philosophy of peace and voluntary cooperation among people. It is consistent with the harmony of nature.

Libertarianism was the philosophy of our founding ancestors. And it is once again gaining traction.