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More oxford books @ www.OxfordeBook.comFore more urdu books visit www.4Urdu.com260LEGACIESare slightly embarrassed or hesitant to openly advocate capitalism.‘Freedom’ is the bill of goods we try to sell to the flower children and theleftists.” Continuing in a Randian vein, he noted, “If we wish to advocatecapitalism, we must advocate it from a moral stand—we must assertthat production is right for man, that rational self-interest is right forman, that aside from (and in addition to) the fact that man should befree, he should also be selfish and productive.” 37 Here the restrictionsthat Rand put on libertarianism were clear. Rand had made capitalism asacrosanct ideal for most libertarians, an allegiance that rapidly marginalizedleaders like Karl Hess who hoped to draw libertarians to the left.Rand’s insistence on capitalism lay at the core of her appeal to libertarians,for it was part of a larger morality that many libertarians assertedwas essential to their movement. By itself libertarianism spoke only offreedom, of minding your own business, there ain’t no such thing asa free lunch. As SIL News asked in one of its first issues, “The essenceof the philosophy is the radical advocacy of freedom. . . . At this point avery serious question must be raised. After freedom . . . what?” 38 It wasthis philosophic hole at the center that made libertarianism such anexcellent partner to conservatism. Tradition and religion filled in wherelibertarianism was silent. When libertarians rejected conservatism, theyneeded something to take its place.For many this role was filled by Objectivism. Rand’s moralismgrounded and bounded libertarian freedoms by emphasizing rationality,self-interest, individual rights, and capitalism. SIL News asserted,“Certain values are right for man, and certain values are wrong. Certainactions benefit him, and certain destroy him. Turning man loose tofollow his own whims . . . a ‘do your own thing’ approach . . . will not byitself achieve human well-being.” 39 Echoing the magazine’s stance, thebudding journalist Robert Bidinotto electrified the second annual EastCoast Libertarian Think-In with an inflammatory speech attackinghippies and drug use. Bidinotto, then an anarchist, nonetheless arguedthat Rand’s rationalist morality was the proper basis for libertarianism.Objectivism helped him cast stones at others on moral grounds, evenwhile he advocated complete political freedom. 40This is not to say that Objectivism and Rand were without controversyin libertarian circles. Rand’s ubiquity made her a convenient target fordisgruntled and sarcastic libertarians. In a disapproving article SIL News