I had to look up anarchism and libertarianism because it seemed completely wrong to me that anarchism should be considered a more extreme libertarianism. That's because I'd always considered libertarianism a sort of "individualist fascism" and anarchism a sort of "socialism with decentralised state".

It turns out we're pretty much both right. Wikipedia (the authority, after all) specifies anarchism as an extreme version of libertarianism, and also but also emphasises the individual freedom side with respect to libertarianism and emphasises the individual responsibility side of anarchism.

I guess that's a long post, sorry.

On the show I wasn't really speculating that classical Anarchism might be a more extreme form of Libertarianism, only that the person about whom we were speaking might be more an Anarchist, than Libertarian.

It is interesting however that Wikipedia does refer to them that way. Unfortunately, political labels have so little meaning anymore. Ever since the Neocons were allowed to equate "liberal" with "communist," things have gone completely down hill. That combined with the constant hammering people get from our right-wing radio and television "analysts," has reduced the spectrum of allowable discussion down to a narrow sliver, and has made real political discourse nearly impossible.

FYI, I'm just listening to this, and I wanted to say that just because I am taking my time to think through my answers to some of your questions does not mean that I am ignoring or avoiding them. I'll expand on this later, but for now:

1. Yes, any private property owner should be allowed to decorate their showroom with broken glass and rusted knives. I'm not going to use the term "OK" because that's vague- do you mean OK as in it suits my personal whims, OK as in should be legal, etc...?

2. It was Candace Bergen.

Short answer- I'm a libertarian, and I'm not a Libertarian.

Long answer- written up here.

To be honest, I can respect the sentiments behind your position. But, I just don't think they can be put into practice. Nor do I believe they are the formula for positive change. See my response to the last thread...about 75ft. down from here...