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Society for Libertarian Life (SLL) was one of the early libertarian student organizations that eventually charted chapters and had a nationwide presence in the United States. Founded in 1973 at California State University, Fullerton (CSUF), SLL was considered one of the largest and most active libertarian organizations along the West Coast. By 1980, it was reported to have 2,000 members. ==Early Years== SLL rose out of a non-credited experimental college course at California State Fullerton (now California State University at Fullerton—CSUF) in 1973. Lawrence Samuels, a third-year commercial art and journalism student, taught the college course on the fundamentals of libertarianism. After the class concluded, the participants launched the Students for a Libertarian Society. Two years later the name was changed to include students and community members. Samuels became SLL’s first chairman and is considered its founder. In an interview, he claimed that SLL’s primary goal as the elimination of victimless crime laws. In later years Samuels became the national chair and executive director until he moved to central California. The organizations first publication was entitled ''The Libertarian New Horizon'' until it was changed later to ''Libertas Review: A Journal of Peace and Liberty''. The organization also adopted a declaration of principles (May 5, 1973)—The Libertas Statement, which was critiqued in Ayn Rand’s book, ''The Voice of Reason: Essay in Objective Thought''. SLL produced a prolific amount of educational material. In a newspaper interview of SLL leaders in 1974, the ''Fullerton News Tribune'' reported that the organization had “an entire propaganda machine of books, newspapers and magazines” touting the libertarian cause. The organization arranged a number of notable speeches by academicians and authors from across the nation. The first public activity was a lecture by author Phillip Abbott Luce on in March 1974. Luce had defected from the pro-Red Chinese Progressive Labor Party in 1965. Before his break with the PLP, Luce had organized trips with Jerry Rubin to meet with Fidel Castro in Cuba. Luce’s speech was controversial. During his speech, he advocated the “demise of tax-supported education,” and that taxation could be considered legal theft. The “uproar in facility circles was extensive,” since the speech was fund by the university. Two other organizations co-sponsored the event, CSUF Economic Association, which provided the funding, and the California Young Americans for Freedom (YAF). Another controversial speech sponsored by SLL was the appearance of Elizabeth Keathley, a 21-year-old UCLA student who referred to herself as a leader in the feminist and libertarian movement. She spoke at CSUF as the Peace and Freedom Party’s candidate for California governor. A former Maoist, she touted the virtues of capitalism, libertarianism and anarchism, telling the audience that “Government keeps the people poor and limits business growth.” Earlier, she had campaigned in the nude at Venice beach, proclaiming that she had nothing to hide. The largest paper in Orange County, California, ''The Register'', described SLL as “not a band of political activists, but rather an educational group dedicated to infecting the campus air with pro-freedom ideas—a bias of which they are uncompromising.” Also in 1975, an editorial writer for ''The Register'' in Orange County, Ken Grubbs Jr., spoke to SLL in Anaheim on “The State of Libertarianism Today.” In 1976 other speakers included Prof. Tibor Machan, author of The Libertarian Alternative. A professor of philosophy at State University of New York at Fredonia, New York, he spoke about the “Assault on Human Rights.” It was cosponsored by the CSUF Philosophy Club. In the same year, Dr. Nathaniel Branden, a former associate of novelist Ayn Rand, spoke at an SLL-sponsored speech at Fullerton College on economic and civil liberties. Devon Showley, a physicist at Cypress College, emceed the event. Other notable speakers included attorney and Libertarian Party candidate for U.S. Vice President David Bergland at Chapman College in the city of Orange, on 1976 presidential election and the nature of law, USC professor of philosophy John Hospers, and professor of educational policy studies, Joel Spring. In 1977 SLL co-sponsored with the Cato Institute and the William Koch Foundation two lectures by Austrian economist Prof. Murray Rothbard at the University of California, Irvine. Some 200 students attended the evening lecture on “The Economic Future.” From its early days, SLL had affiliated with the nationwide libertarian organization known as Society for Individual Liberty (SIL), which was founded after the infamous split between traditionalists and libertarians at the YAF 1969 national convention. In 1976 SLL won SIL’s 1975-1976 “outstanding local libertarian organization” award. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Society for Libertarian Life」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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