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In reply to the discussion: Assange/Wikileaks talk about who they admire…wait for it…& the answer is Ron/Rand Paul & Matt Drudge [View all]Spider Jerusalem
(21,786 posts)"So as far as markets are concerned Im a libertarian, but I have enough expertise in politics and history to understand that a free market ends up as monopoly"
that's a direct quote from one of the things you linked to; which doesn't really sound like the sort of thing a Randian would say. So it's pretty meaningless for you to seize on his saying "I could be considered a libertarian" and decide "aha, he means Libertarian as in the US Libertarian Party" when "libertarianism" refers collectively to diverse strains of political thought including the classical liberalism of John Stuart Mill and the anarcho-syndicalism of Proudhon.
I'm not much of an admirer of Assange because I view him as an unpleasant and unprincipled egomaniac; however I can concede that his claim to be "a sort of libertarian" is consistent with his view on information freedom (and not necessarily congruent with the term as used in the narrow context of US politics).