April 3rd, 2007

I attended the Patrick Henry Supper Club tonight, and I was delighted to meet so many interesting people with whom I have so much to talk about. There is definitely interest in my idea of a dialogue / mutual aid thing with leftist activists, and hopefully a few people from the supper club will show up on May Day. People are curious about the left libertarian label, which is great because it really offers the honest thinker a way to recast some assumptions along different yet equally libertarian lines. I fully expected the "left" part of the label to get under some people's skin - which occurred in at least one case - but that's part of why I like it: we libertarians shouldn't be complacent about our ideas, we should be challenged, engaged, upset, damn it! Most of all, we should be hashing these big ideas out instead of arguing over the typical minutiae libertarians always end up bickering over - that's the kind of political talk that ends up forging new inroads into the corporate leviathan State.

So I extend a hearty welcome to all visitors from tonight's meeting and look forward to our next discussion - hopefully over a good beer!