Re: Anti-War Rally
Daniel C. Burton (dan@antispam.autobahn.org)
28 Feb 1998 02:23:05 GMT
Seth David Schoen <schoen@uclink4.Berkeley.EDU> wrote in article
<6d7q5q$i3$1@agate.berkeley.edu>...
> >Despite changes in the situation in Iraq, the anti-war rally is still
on.
>
> How did it go? I couldn't make it.
There were only 3-4 people there at a time, but we passed out a lot of
literature, about 300 of those pieces. For a while we joined the
International Socialist Organization and Muslim Student Union for the main
protest on the Sproul Hall steps. We were in the pictures people took of
the event. Some of our extra signs proved handy because we lent them to
people who weren't affiliated with the Cal Libertarians.
All of our activity spurred a lot of interest in our table and the quiz and
what libertarians were about. Not all of it was positive interest. I
spent a bunch of time arguing with socialists from 2 separate revolutionary
factions. The Worker's Vanguard guy kept trying to attribute negative
things to capitalism through examples of nationalist command economies and
economic interventions on behalf of business. I tried to explain to him
that non-socialist command policies were possible and the likely result of
any economic regulation.
The woman from the ISO was much more civil and started talking about
anarchism with me. She told me why socialists disagree with
anarcho-socialists, and I told her about the individualist anarchists of
the 1850's and some empirical examples of anarchy creating free-market
conditions (like Somalia -- violent before and after downfall of the
government, but economically laissez-faire afterward.) In the end she
said, "You're both reactionary and utopian!"