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<!-- you can have any number of categories here --> [[Category:Libertarian Party]] {{DES | des = The various Libertarian Party platforms have been amazingly extreme and one of the best arguments AGAINST libertarianism. So radical, that they have mostly been purged from the web so as not to embarrass the party. They grew more and more detailed and outrageous until 2006 when they were abbreviated so that they wouldn't frighten off newcomers. The newest platforms show only the mildest, vaguest tip of the libertarian iceberg. | show=}} <!-- insert wiki page text here --> The current platform is available at [http://www.lp.org/ The Libertarian Party] web page. Older versions are available at [http://web.archive.org/web/19961106011642/http://www.lp.org/ The Libertarian Party via the WayBackMachine] (Internet Archive.) One of the more persistant and comical parts of all the platforms has been "The Pledge": "I do not believe in or advocate the initiation of force as a means of achieving political or social goals." The pledge is nonsensical because of [[Property Is Coercive|the violence inherent in the institution of property.]] The purpose of the pledge is as a fig leaf; to give libertarians plausible deniability of the violent extremism that libertarianism has always attracted. But it's quite amusing to hear how much party members disagree over what it means: whether it is or isn't ok to overthrow the US because it has "initiated force" and they would be "retaliating". There is no such "restriction" on non-LP libertarians. <!-- DPL has problems with categories that have a single quote in them. Use these explicit workarounds. --> <!-- otherwise, we would use {{Links}} and {{Quotes}} --> {{List|title=Libertarian Party Platforms|links=true}} {{Quotations|title=Libertarian Party Platforms|quotes=true}}
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