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This essay is just another by-the-numbers "all libertarians are really anarchists, so we don't have to take them seriously" polemic. Ignorable. Anyone who is seriously interested in political debate & analysis doesn't need to read this kind of trivializing of issues.

This was written in 1979.

As one who gathered petition signatures for Roger MacBride in 1976, and travelled with him on N76LP, and who worked in the Fairbanks legislative campaign Dick Randolph won, I know from experience that a lot of LPers were anarchists, not 'minarchists', as the term was back then.

Look at the LP's history, and you'll see that Rothbard had an enormous influence on those holding positions of responsibility in the LP back then.

So what if 1979's not 2002? LP amnesia.