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More oxford books @ www.OxfordeBook.comFore more urdu books visit www.4Urdu.comIT USUALLY BEGINS WITH AYN RAND 259a rite of passage for most libertarians. Trading jokes about John Galt,fondly reminiscing over one’s first encounter with Atlas Shrugged, andemploying specialized Rand references such as “second-hander,” “stolenconcept,” and “package deal” created a sense of group cohesion and identity.This feeling of togetherness and unity was particularly important ina movement that claimed individualism as its mantra and was phobicof conformity. As the joke went, “If you put half a dozen libertariansinto a room together, you will eventually end up with four factions,2 conspiracies, 3 newsletters, 2 splinter groups and 4 withdrawals of sanction!”33 Or, as the editors of New Libertarian Notes warned, “Everyone inthis publication is in disagreement!” 34 Rand helped libertarians create acohesive subculture without sacrificing autonomy or independence.Rand’s emphasis on capitalism also helped libertarians remain distinctfrom the New Left. To outsiders, libertarian symmetry with thecounterculture was among the movement’s most salient characteristics,but careful observers understood that similarities between libertariansand the left were only skin deep. A writer for the gentleman’s magazineSwank stumbled across a Greenwich Village coffee house identifiedonly by a dollar sign on the door, where waiters handed out a petitionendorsing Rand for president. Here he found not beatniks but “buckniks,”a species of disenchanted youth who “hates everything about oursociety . . . but who believes in free enterprise on the individual level andwants to ‘make good’ in a business sense as deeply as any Horatio Algerhero.” 35 It was true that Objectivists did have a tendency toward sartorialexperimentation, but their rebellion was always in the service of capitalism.Some NBI students liked to dress like Rand, sporting dollar-signinsignia, flowing capes, and elongated cigarette holders. At the RadicalLibertarian Alliance conference a “Randian superhero” appeared, with agold cape, “black stretch suit with an enormous gold dollar sign embroideredon his chest and a gold lame belt cinching his waist.” 36 There wereeven beaded and bearded Randian “heads,” lovers of both LSD and logic.However long their hair and outlandish their dress, however, few libertarianswere interested in a durable alliance with the New Left.Indeed, hippie styles only created trouble by luring lefties to the causeunder false pretenses, as libertarian writers noted uneasily. Writing inProtos Don Franzen identified a key sticking point: “It is not exaggerationto say that in selling libertarianism to Leftists, many libertarians