[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

I don’t think the LP, then or now, would cotton to Ron Paul’s anti-business rhetoric. To couch his opposition to encroaching fascism in terms of corporate evil rather than government corruption, has more than a whiff of liberal batshit to me. (No offense there, Battman.)

For sure, not back in the day...when my parents were entertaining libertarian activists and discussing such issues while I was bouncing on some now-arthritic libertarian knee. :)

Maybe now they have some new generation that knows not Hospers and Rothbard; but I can’t believe they are now intermingling with anti-business or neo-luddite greens.
(Though one can almost hear Rand saying “You asked for it!”)

[Jabba the Nutt]

Back in my big L libertarian days, libertarians borrowed analysis from out and out Marxist and left-wing authors. Two that I remember were Gabriel Kolko and William Appleman Williams. One of these two, or it could've been a third author, showed how bureaucracies tended to be captured by their regulated industries. That historians example went back into the 1880's or 1890's, when Railroads (Big Corporations) controlled the Railroad Commissions, which were set up to benefit farmers and consumers, but ended up benefiting the Railroads.

So, the idea the libertarians won't take ideas from Lefties is wrong. The standard has to be, whether the concept is correct, not where it came from. I do know Kolko or Williams repudiated the use that libertarians made of their work. They didn't like the Free Market types using their analysis for their own purposes.