Articles: A Populist Libertarian Youth Movement? - Brad Lips, American Thinker:
March 24, 2014 - "I am attending a conference of European Students for Liberty (ESFL), where some 570 libertarians -- all about half my age -- have come from 41 countries to celebrate their growing movement, and to strategize. How will they grow from here?
"At the front of the room, Rasmus Brygger of the Danish Liberal Youth Alliance asserts that the socialists had their intellectual leaders, but didn’t expect everyone in their ranks to study them as nerdishly as libertarians do. (Case in point: later in the evening, young men in attendance will swoon as libertarian songstress Dorian Electra croons about the Austrian business cycle theory: 'Since these low interest rates, like you said, are lies/ Malinvestments come as no surprise.')
"Brygger notes that the hippie generation of the 1960s captured the culture for the Socialist Left; and earlier in the century, its principles were advanced en masse by workers’ unions. Could libertarians make similar advances in coming years? "
Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2014/03/a_populist_libertarian_youth_movement.html
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March 24, 2014 - "I am attending a conference of European Students for Liberty (ESFL), where some 570 libertarians -- all about half my age -- have come from 41 countries to celebrate their growing movement, and to strategize. How will they grow from here?
"At the front of the room, Rasmus Brygger of the Danish Liberal Youth Alliance asserts that the socialists had their intellectual leaders, but didn’t expect everyone in their ranks to study them as nerdishly as libertarians do. (Case in point: later in the evening, young men in attendance will swoon as libertarian songstress Dorian Electra croons about the Austrian business cycle theory: 'Since these low interest rates, like you said, are lies/ Malinvestments come as no surprise.')
"Brygger notes that the hippie generation of the 1960s captured the culture for the Socialist Left; and earlier in the century, its principles were advanced en masse by workers’ unions. Could libertarians make similar advances in coming years? "
Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2014/03/a_populist_libertarian_youth_movement.html
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