Belief Quote by Jacob Weisberg

To call oneself a libertarian marxist today is not to look backwards but to be committed to the future. The libertarian marxist is not…

— Daniel Guerin

Like academic Marxists, who are their sisters under the skin, libertarians are far more interested in an ideal world than in the one where…

— Jacob Weisberg

On the conservative side, today's libertarianism is far more dogmatic and devoid of qualification than the liberalism of Adam Smith or J.S. Mill. Like…

— Michael Lind

There are people, of course, who profess to be libertarian Marxists. I believe they mean very well, and I even write in their periodicals;…

— Murray Bookchin

Take a very striking case in point: the Russian Bolsheviks. [Vladimir] Lenin created an alleged workers' party, which in every way reflected the Czarist…

— Murray Bookchin

“[The] term 'libertarian' itself, to be sure, raises a problem, notably, the specious identification of an anti-authoritarian ideology with a straggling movement for 'pure…

— Murray Bookchin

The best thing you can say about libertarians is that because their views derive from abstract theory, they tend to be highly principled and…

— Jacob Weisberg

If libertarianism were easy to explain, and it weren't easy to exaggerate the effects of libertarianism, I think it would have been done already.…

— P. J. O'Rourke

The worst thing you can say about libertarians is that they are intellectually immature, frozen in the worldview many of them absorbed from reading…

— Jacob Weisberg

Some people object to libertarian ideas because there are too many irresponsible people in the world - people who will cause trouble if the…

— Harry Browne

Libertarians believe that the government should stay out of private lives on issues that don't have a bearing on society as a whole.

— Norah Vincent

“I should say that it was only for me that Marxism seemed over. Surely, I would tell G. at least once a week, it…

— Katha Pollitt