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Two libertarian reps debate "occupy" protests

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Freedom4Me73986 Posted: Mon, Oct 24 2011 6:32 PM

http://freekeene.com/2011/10/23/libertarian-rep-steve-vaillancourt-vs-libertarian-rep-seth-cohn-on-occupy-nh/

The OSW movement is a statist one. I'm surprised that libertarians would support it.

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"The very search by observers and historians for purity and unmixed motives in a revolution betrays an unrealistic naivete. Revolutions are mighty upheavals made by a mass of people, people who are willing to rupture the settled habits of a lifetime, including especially the habit of obedience to
an existing government. They are made by people willing to turn from the narrow pursuits of their daily lives to battle vigorously and even violently
together in a more general cause. Because a revolution is a sudden upheaval by masses of men, one cannot treat the motives of every participant as
identical, nor can one treat a revolution as somehow planned and ordered in advance. On the contrary, one of the major characteristics of a revolution is its dynamism, its rapid and accelerating movement in one of several competing directions. Indeed, the enormous sense of exhilaration
(or of fear, depending on one's personal values and one's place in the social structure) generated by a revolution is precisely due to its unfreezing of the political and social order, its smashing of the old order, of the fixed and relatively stagnant political structure, its transvaluation of values, its replacement of a reigning fixity with a sense of openness and dynamism.  Hope, especially among those submerged by the existing system, replaces
hopelessness and despair."

 

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