PROPOSITION: Objectivists Are Not Libertarians.

• Author: Rand, Ayn
• Position: The Debate Issue - Brief article

AFFIRMATIVE: Libertarian Anarchists Are Collectivists

"ALL KINDS OF people today call themselves 'libertarians,' especially something calling itself the New Right, which consists of hippies who are anarchists instead of leftist collectivists; but anarchists are collectivists. Capitalism is the one system that requires absolute objective law, yet libertarians combine capitalism and anarchism. That's worse than anything the New Left has proposed. It's a mockery of philosophy and ideology. They sling slogans and try to ride on two bandwagons.... I could deal with a Marxist with a greater chance of reaching some kind of understanding, and with much greater respect. Anarchists are the scum of the intellectual world of the Left, which has given them up. So the Right picks up another leftist discard. That's the libertarian movement."

NEGATIVE: Objectivists Are a Type of Libertarian

"IF THE DEFINING characteristic of the libertarian movement was noninitiation of physical force... and if politically they are not advocating anything that contradicts our wider...