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Battlepanda: Rightwing libertarian are the ones who have made an effort to integrate with the policy making mechanisms.

So how’s that been working out for them, lately?

Battlepanda: For most liberals, left libertarians are simply not part of the conversation because they’re not accepting the basic ground terms that politics imply government. It’s almost as if we’re playing a game of stickball and you show up with a hula hoop.

It’s not clear to me that libertarian policy-wonkery is a strategy well justified by its success. If “the conversation” about politics simply precludes those who aren’t pouring their time into getting an inside man at the skunk works, then perhaps the terms of the conversation need to change.

(N.B.: this is not a point peculiar to modern day left-libertarianism. Identifying politics exclusively with electioneering, lobbying, and wonkery related to those two activities, would also rule out any reasonable discussion of the radical feminist movement, the grassroots gay rights movement, the IWW, the Garrisonian abolitionist movement, and a lot of other really significant historical developments in politics.)