The wrecking crew
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Read on Hacker News…ertarian ideas are revolutionary. I've been told that Trotsky once said "Every revolutionary should study chess." The best book on chess that Libertarians should read is The Wrecking Crew by Thomas Frank, which left me certain after many years that I was absolutely no Libertarian, and more than that, embarrassed to have ever been one." What a clown. Libertarians are not revolutionary. Second, that book has nothing to do with chess, and Trotsky's quote was literal. This doesn't even warrant a rebuttal, but I'll continue. "Republican Presidents and legislators use Libertarian arguments to advance policy decisions which benefit business, then conveniently forget those same arguments when it comes to issues of government debt or unnecessary military spending." Republicans and Libertarians share certain conservative values. For what it's worth…
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