Right-libertarians never had a single book like Commies had with Marx and I doubt they ever will. So long as governments exist you’re gonna have to overcome the statism which is indoctrinated in all from childhood and that’s where “Road to Serfdom” and “Anatomy of the State” ought come in together.

We’re not talking normies here, specifically left-libertarians. Likely they disagree with drug policy and warmongering at a minimum, after Covid you’d hope they are even more sceptical of scientism which Rothbard foresaw and thoroughly dismantled in his essay whilst it’s hard to deny Hayek’s views on Socialism if you read his backstory and understand he wrote “Road to Serfdom” in the midst of Nazism which he had to escape (although the muddying of nazism as far right might see those dots not be connected).

Only once you’ve disabused the statism can you paint the economics / deductive reasoning picture. Hazlitt may not be the best and hopefully Saif’s latest book can be the new go to for that (I’ve got it but haven’t started yet) but we can’t expect someone new to these ideas to sit down and consume Human Action either.

Marxism preys on emotions. You don’t have to think much reading Marx, it all sounds nice if you just don’t scratch the surface.

Anything from the opposite paradigm requires real logic and thought. It challenges so much of what one thinks they know so it takes time to digest.

Bitcoiners are gonna end up there by exposure though over time. Again, maybe not full ancap, but seeing these “right wingers” constantly be right about an economy disintegrating is hard to ignore. Their W’s will stack up and be a vortex drawing left-libertarians across as they see the State continue to fail with Keynesianism.

I agree there’s a foundational barrier but I reckon that’s as much Statism as anything else. “Right wing” has become a slur, considering moving to that side is a big fucking gulp for many, difficult to embrace until one can’t unsee them being ‘right’.