So I’m part of a libertarian club at my school. Rand’s really popular here. I’ve been made the “chief promoter” of the association so I’m basically trying to market/promote libertarianism. In particular we’re trying to design posters. We’re thinking about making them provocative saying things along the lines of “Capitalism is the only economic system which can ensure stability and growth”, just something along those lines. Any ideas for
Poster stuff
Quotes
Captions
Images
Or
Any other strategies to try to draw people in for discussion? Or any events you think we could hold?
Friedman is supremely quotable. I would recommend that you re-watch the Free to Choose series for ideas… not only does he have great quotes, he was extremely talented at devising arguments to help people see why capitalism is a) not the boogeyman that socialists paint it out to be and b) the only possible basis for prosperity and a just social order.
Frederic Bastiat is also hugely underutilized … extremely quotable and he has a very elevated style. His stuff could be place in a visual context that communicates “classy”. I would particularly direct your attention toward The Law and The State.
Sowell is another very quotable guy. Walter Williams, as well, though he’s more conservative than libertarian, so have to be careful with his quotes.
Mencken, Hicks, Carlin, are the greatest satirists to live in the last century, IMO. Despite the fact that they were not “libertarians” per se, they often leaned that way and as consummate wordsmiths, managed to compress entire dissertations’ worth of libertarian thought down into a couple sentences.
Also, don’t forget to review the Low Content Quote thread, there are some amazingly good quotes in there.
Neodoxy, I highly suggest that you become part of Students for Liberty (if not already). Get your club affiliated and you get HUGE benefits! I joined the SFL chapter at my school a few weeks ago and I learned that they just ship us almost any book we want in large quantities. I went to the Philly regional conference yesterday and it was AWESOME. 200 brilliant libertarian students there. They were extremely smart, and even though the organization is funded by like Cato and some Koch money, most were probably Austrians there.
They also fly you out to DC for free and do leadership training. Please sign up! Also make sure to sign up for the International SFL Conference in February. 2,000 libertarians from the entire world converging on DC for 3 days.
You have a libertarian club at your school? I’m so jealous! All I had was an economics professor who introduced me to libertarian ideas and helped convert me. My fellow students didn’t seem as open to the ideas. I was surrounded by socialists/progressives back then and pretty much still am now in the real world. Hell, most of the time here I have to explain what the term “libertarian” means. How are you guys finding each other!? lol
My school is really big and tends to attract more republicans/independents/don’t really care than most other college campuses do. For whatever it’s worth, however, we also have a chapter of the ISO on campus
Yeah, it was a really enlightening class. Intro. to political economy. Socialist dominated university, but this professor was either small government conservative or libertarian. In any case, he had us read libertarian thinkers including Friedman, Hayek, Mises, Rothbard, etc. I still have the book handy with exerpts from all those guys and more. He even argued from an Anarcho-Capitalist perspective sometimes, not necessarily believing in it, but pretty much saying, here’s an interesting theory that you might want to look into.
He even argued from an Anarcho-Capitalist perspective sometimes, not necessarily believing in it, but pretty much saying, here’s an interesting theory that you might want to look into.