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More oxford <strong>books</strong> @ www.OxfordeBook.<strong>com</strong><strong>Fore</strong> <strong>more</strong> <strong>urdu</strong> <strong>books</strong> <strong>visit</strong> <strong>www.4Urdu</strong>.<strong>com</strong>IT USUALLY BEGINS WITH AYN RAND 257Your view is pure negation.” 24 Rothbard and Hess pulled together a fewleft-right conferences in the year following St. Louis, but their RadicalLibertarian Alliance was short-lived. More durable were the many neo-Objectivist groups that emerged in the fall of 1969. In open revolt againstYAF the UCLA chapter began putting out “some real volatile stuff,” oneCalifornia libertarian informed the deposed state director. “It has blackflags with dollar signs and quotes from Rand yet.” 25 At the Universityof San Diego another student reported that the local YAF leader “haschanged her chapter into an open Objectivist group and has been holdingextensive and intensive study groups in the area and has been sponsoringspeakers on campus.” 26The largest and most influential organization to emerge from the libertariansecession, the Society for Individual Liberty (SIL), grew out ofObjectivist roots. The group was formed by a merger between YAF’sLibertarian Caucus and the Society for Rational Individualism, publisherof The Rational Individualist. One of the organization’s first pressreleases, “S.I.L. Asks Release of Imprisoned Radical,” blended fiction withreality by objecting to the imprisonment of John Galt. The group ralliedin protest on November 22, the date given in Atlas Shrugged for Galt’sdelivery of his famous sixty-page speech. The small band of libertarianswaving black flags with dollar signs in front of the Philadelphia FederalCourthouse was largely misunderstood, with several passersby accusingthem of Communist sympathies. 27 Even a reading of Galt’s individualistoath did little to clarify the protest’s intent.However inscrutable to outsiders, SIL quickly emerged as the centralclearinghouse for the libertarian movement by dint of its free-formmembership structure and the enthusiasm of its founders. Immediatelyafter its birth SIL claimed 103 chapters, and at its first-year anniversaryboasted thirteen hundred members, three thousand persons incontact with the organization, and 175,000 pieces of literature distributed.28 The 1972 directory of SIL was fat with libertarian organizations.Subdivided into multiple categories, the directory provides a snapshotof the early libertarian movement: 36 Libertarian Action Organizationsare listed, along with 98 local SIL chapters, 33 institutes, 4 foundations,29 <strong>books</strong>ellers, 31 libertarian-friendly publishers, 6 education endeavors,24 enterprises, and 13 new <strong>com</strong>munity projects. The directory alsoidentified a range of issue groups and political action groups, including

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