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Left and Right

by Norm Singleton

The Mises Institute's great new student series uses "on-demand" printing technology to make available numerous libertarian, classical liberal, and "old right" classics.

Free Liberals will be particularly interested in the complete set of Left and Right, one of the first libertarian newsletters which was published from 1965-1968. Edited by Murray Rothbard, Leonard Liggio, and H. George Resch, this publication represents an attempt to forge an alliance between libertarians who rejected the official conservative movement's embrace of, in Bill Buckley's famous words, a "totalitarian bureaucracy" for the duration of the cold war, with the pro-freedom, pro-decentralization elements of what was then the New Left. Free Liberals looking for ways to approach the left without compromising their pro-liberty principles will find guidance and ammunition in these pages.

Also see Rodrick Long's Rothbard's Left and Right:Forty Years latter. The early issues of the Libertarian Forum where Rothbard explains his eventual disillusion with the left also provide a warning of some of the dangers faced by Free Liberals who attempt to revive the libertarian-left alliance.