What Was Libertarian Vanguard?

The Cato Institute, the nexus of much libertarian political activity and funding, relocated to Washington DC in 1981, a move seen, by the RC, as joining the establishment. (“Opportunists Move Rightward” was Vanguard‘s headline.)

Libertarian Vanguard was the voice of the Libertarian Party Radical Caucus (RC) from 1979 to 1984. The Radical Caucus was formed in reaction to the perceived unprincipled actions of the national Libertarian Party, which in the late 1970s was dominated by the then San Francisco-based Cato Institute.