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“Zero Aggression Principle”

A libertarian is a person who believes that no one has the right, under any circumstances, to initiate force against another human being for any reason whatever; nor will a libertarian advocate the initiation of force, or delegate it to anyone else.

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Issue Number 1,219, August 6, 2023

The Editor’s Notes

 by Charles Curley [email protected] Special to L. Neil Smith’s The Libertarian Enterprise In This Issue L. Neil returns in high dudgeon on another idea for a campaign to get our liberties back. Benjamin Williams unpacks Soviet Russia's and Stalin's terrible...

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Resistance to Tyranny

 by L. Neil Smith [email protected] Special to L. Neil Smith’s The Libertarian Enterprise The news last week, to quote Walter Cronkite, was "filled with those events that alter and illuminate our times". And seldom have times more badly needed altering—although I'm...

Lord Cardigan and Doctor Taza

by Eric Oppen [email protected] Exclusive to L. Neil Smith’s The Libertarian Enterprise Bn the 19th century, the British Army had a problem. After the Napoleonic Wars, it had had little of importance to do. In this atmosphere, the evils of the “purchase” system...

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