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More oxford books @ www.OxfordeBook.comFore more urdu books visit www.4Urdu.com254LEGACIESNorth’s reaction was representative. Many conservatives simply couldnot understand the new vogue for libertarianism, to them a bizarre tendencythat might become dangerous if not nipped in the bud.YAF was indeed drifting, particularly in California. By the late 1960sa significant number of chapters and the state director identified as libertarianrather than conservative. In early 1969 the Californians andtheir allies in other states organized a Libertarian Caucus to increasetheir influence within YAF. Libertarians committed to aggressive antistatismnow questioned YAF’s reflexive patriotism, cultural traditionalism,and explicit identification as a conservative group. A cultural gapwas opening between libertarians and the clean-cut, anti-CommunistYAF majority, whom libertarians derided as “trads,” short for traditionalconservative. Sporting long hair, beards, and bell bottoms, libertariansdelighted in shocking trads with proposals to legalize marijuanaand pornography. Calling the United States a fascist state, they openlyswapped draft evasion tips. The YAF National Office kept an uneasy eyeon these developments. The libertarian upsurge came at a critical timefor the organization, as it was positioning itself to wealthy donors as theone group that could effectively challenge SDS and other student activists.But now some YAF members looked and sounded like the dreadedNew Left itself.How much of this new wave of libertarianism in YAF drew from Rand’swork? In 1970 an informal survey published in the New Guard, YAF’smagazine, listed 10 percent of members as self-proclaimed “Objectivists.”It is likely, however, that Rand influenced a broader group than thosewilling to identify as official followers of her philosophy. If exact lines ofinfluence are hard to quantify, they are easy to trace. From the outside,at least, many saw Rand and libertarianism as interchangeable and usedRand as shorthand for all libertarians. Running for the national boardon a unity platform, Ron Docksai published a campaign pamphlet thatsuggested, “Let us waste no energy in intramural debate over each other’scredentials, but let us combat those Leftist merchants of death whowill burn a book irrespective of whether it was written by Russell Kirk orAyn Rand.” Writing to the Libertarian Caucus prior to the national convention,Don Feder asked, “Are you saying to the Traditionalists in YAF,‘Either become Objectivists or leave the organization’? This seems to bethe case.” According to Feder, “an avowed Objectivist” ran the Boston