Listen, YAF

August 26, 2008 1:06 PM by Mises.org Updates (Archive)

This open letter is addressed to the libertarians attending the YAF national convention in St. Louis this Labor Day weekend [August 1969]. Notice I said the libertarians in YAF; I have nothing to say to the so-called "traditionalists" (a misnomer, by the way, for we libertarians have our traditions too, and they are glorious ones.)…

In the famous words of Jimmy Durante: "Have ya ever had the feelin' that ya wanted to go, and yet ya had the feelin' that ya wanted to stay?" This letter is a plea that you use the occasion of the public forum of the YAF convention to go, to split, to leave the conservative movement where it belongs: in the hands of the St. Something-or-others, and where it is going to stay regardless of what action you take. Leave the house of your false friends, for they are your enemies.

FULL ARTICLE by Murray N. Rothbard