5 August 2006
OBITUARY: PIERRE VIDAL-NAQUET
The polymath French intellectual Pierre Vidal-Naquet, who has died at the age of 76, is best known on the Anglo-American left for his polemical demolition of Noam Chomsky for the latter’s defence of the Holocaust denier Robert Faurisson – part of which is available here. But he is worth remembering for more than that. He was a brilliant historian and classicist and an active left libertarian until his death. The Independent has an obituary here.
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I know this is asking for trouble, but how can one be a LEFT libertarian? And, different question, if it is possible, how come I've never met one? Rare birds?
maybe you should get out more, dearieme?
Thanks for pointing me to this obituary, moving and inspiring.
Dearieme: stop being so American! On this (European) blog, a 'liberal' is someone who is in favour of free trade, market forces and natural rights; a 'libertarian' is someone who thinks people should be free to do as they will, a 'left libertarian' someone who would like a self-managed socialism without significant private property.
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