Had Other Writers Written the Libertarian Classics…

by on March 6, 2011 @ 3:15 pm · 4 comments

in Humor

Bill James, The Man vs. the Stats

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Virtue of Elfishness

Thor Heyerdahl, Rowed to Serfdom

J.G. Frazer, The Rites of Man

Richard Stallman, For a Gnu Liberty

John Ruskin, The Gaud of the Machine

Gene Roddenberry, The Once and Future Klingon

William Morris, The Rainbow Credenza

Coco Chanel, Karl Marx and the Clothes of His System

Aldous Huxley, Atlas Drugged

Nikola Tesla, Social Static Cling

 

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Wirkman Virkkala is a freelance editor and propagandist living in the wilds of the Pacific Northwest. Formerly a founding editor of Liberty magazine, he has written for Reason, The American Enterprise, and the late, great Loompanics Unlimited Catalog, as well as many other sites and publications.


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1 Wirkman Virkkala March 6, 2011 at 3:23 pm

Others should pile on. It’s easy. Take a classic, manipulate the title, find an apt author from the past. For example:

Capitalism: The Unknown Id … by Sigmund Freud, of course.

Or Brant Parker.

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2 undlarakhar March 15, 2011 at 8:02 pm

The Third Foundation of Personal Freedom – Issac Asimov

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3 undlarakhar March 15, 2011 at 8:05 pm

The left hand of governmental dominance – Ursula K. LeGuin

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4 undlarakhar March 15, 2011 at 8:07 pm

Enders’ Tax Game – Orson Scot Card

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