Glenn Reynolds Quotes

Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.

I have been an Anarchist all my life.

I believe in a libertarian communist society.

I consider myself not a conservative libertarian but a radical '60s libertarian.

The best government is the least government. In some areas, I'm libertarian. I don't subscribe to any one party; they are all bad.

Trying to be a socialist and a libertarian is obviously a very difficult balancing act, which nobody has pulled off too successfully in this century.

A "communist/socialist/progressive" is an oxymoron, like an "atheist/evangelical Christian/Muslim."

I'm by no means convinced that capitalism and the development of technology has made anarchism easier.

Whatever its future success as a historical movement, anarchism will remain a fundamental part of human experience, for the drive for freedom is one of our deepest needs and the vision of a free society is one of our oldest dreams. Neither can ever be fully repressed; both will outlive all rulers and their States.

Anarchism? You bet your sweet betsy. The only cure for the ills of democracy is more democracy. Much more.

Now back in 1927 an American socialist, Norman Thomas, six times candidate for president on the Socialist Party ticket, said the American people would never vote for socialism. But he said under the name of liberalism the American people will adopt every fragment of the socialist program.

An Anarchist is anyone who denies the necessity and legitimacy of government; the question of his methods of attacking it is foreign to the definition.

Anarchism is "stateless socialism."

Liberalism is to freedom as anarchism is to anarchy.

I have been criticized for pointing out that anarchism is likely to flourish more easily, at least in the western world, and to a certain extent in eastern Europe, in those areas where there is either grim need or considerable technological development.

Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink.

We don't live in a capitalist totality. Capitalism couldn't survive as a totality anyway. We live in this complex system and we already live communism and anarchism in a million forms everyday.

Socialists don't like ordinary people choosing, for they might not choose Socialism.

If you dropped me off a space platform onto the ground where a line was drawn, I would fall to the left side of it. I believe the difference between right and left is that the right, for the most part, the bulk of their philosophy is interested in property, and the rights of people to own property and gain and acquire and keep property. And I think on the left - though they blend and mix - on the left primarily you will find people who are more concerned about humans, and the human condition, and what can be done.

I am an anarchist, and according to anarchist principles nation states become obstacles to a true humanistic globalization.

Terms that are related to individuals like Marxist, or Hegelian, or Bakuninist, or Kropotkinist, are completely outside my intellectual and emotional horizon. I'm a follower of no one.

Anarchism, then, really stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion.

The democrats think that as they are equal they ought to be equal in all things.

Cleansed of its leftist residues, anarchy - anarchism minus Marxism - will be free to get better at being what it is.