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More oxford books @ www.OxfordeBook.comFore more urdu books visit www.4Urdu.com258LEGACIESnine antidraft groups and others dedicated to antiwar, antitax, abortionrights, mental health, gun control, women’s liberation, gay liberation,legal defense, and marijuana legalization. 29SIL was supported in its mission by hundreds of libertarian magazinesthat mushroomed in the early 1970s, many of them Objectivistin orientation. During the early years libertarian periodicals essentiallywere the movement. Grassroots magazines and newsletters helped createa dense, thriving network out of far-flung local groups, fledgling businessenterprises, and scattered efforts at political activism. As essentialas magazines were, however, they were far from glamorous. Most werelittle more than mimeographed leaflets started by college students.The A Is A Directory, an annual libertarian index named for Rand’sfavorite Aristotelian principle, warned readers of the magazines it listed“to be prepared for inconsistency” and admitted, “Writing, editing, andprinting are apt to be poor.” 30 Many magazines took their cue fromRand’s publications, including political commentary, cultural analysis,and romantic fiction in their offerings. Of the 128 magazines listed inthe 1972 A Is A Directory, more than thirty had an explicit Objectivist orObjectivist-friendly orientation. Objectivism was by far the most popularaffiliation, with generic anarcho-capitalism running a distant secondwith nine periodicals. 31Rand had little appreciation for her new fan base. During her annualpublic appearances she called libertarians “scum,” “intellectual cranks,”and “plagiarists.” Because she defined Objectivism as her personal property,she viewed libertarian use of her ideas as theft. What others wouldsee as tribute or recognition of her work, Rand defined as “cashing in”or plagiarism. “If such hippies hope to make me their Marcuse, it willnot work,” she wrote sourly. 32 Her comment was not far off the mark, forRand’s writings were a sort of ur-text for the libertarian movement. Theycould be challenged, interpreted, reinterpreted, adopted, celebrated—but never ignored. Whether she liked it or not, libertarians would alwaysconsider Rand a vital part of their intellectual heritage.The source of Rand’s appeal to the new libertarian movement was multifold.On the most basic level, her ideas and fictional characters servedas an easy shorthand and a way to cement bonds between likemindedindividuals. No matter their current political allegiance, Objectivist,anarchist, minarchist, or somewhere in between, reading Rand had been