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The LP is NOT, at last check, mostly anarchist. They actually did some surveys of their members. The last one that I heard about - maybe 12 years ago - indicated that maybe 40% of their membership considered themselves anarchists, a decline from years prior. A number of the original champions of the Anarcho-Capitalist position changed their minds, as I recall. The activist core is still mostly anarchist, I think.
My own critique would parallel Erica's. The focus on anti-government, conspiracy theories, and how to move from getting .1% of the vote in some local election to getting .103% make for a rather uninspiring experience for the most part.
On an ironic note, the Progressive Left has now adopted virtually the entire line of conspiracy theory that used to be the bread and butter of the John Birch Society: Flouridation, Council on Foreign Relations, Bilderburgers, Illuminati, 9/11 as a plot by the U.S. government, the Kennedy assassinations, right down the line. Of course they give it their own leftist twist or two, but I recall hearing about all that stuff (9/11 excepted, of course) back in the mid '60's, as a kid in H.S.
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