If you are looking for his monument, look around.
Yesterday I learned that Manny Krausner had recently passed away at the age of 85.
Photo credit Reason Magazine.
I remember Murray Rothbard calling HL Mencken “a fun riveranary.” For me, Manny was a fun libertarian.
My late friend Harry Watson and I got off from Canada at the 1972 Septent to earn our PhD. UCLA’s Economics Program. We read Reason Magazine regularly and followed the libertarian movement like that, continuing through other publications. We were fascinated by many of the things we read. So we arrived at our family along with the American Rivera landscape. We knew that Los Angeles was one of the breeding grounds of libertarianism.
Naturally, we began looking for Riveranary events. We discovered an Aut Aut we met once a week (or maybe once a month). We met at Eaters Digest on Restaurant Street. At the time, there was a need to change the positive vibe, so people stood up and temporarily shared submoting they read and listened to on the mainstream media and talk radio. I think it was there that I first met Manny.
I remember blocking the brochure that produced the scholarship he had been running for Congress in the 1972 election. It will make him the first candidate for Congress I have ever met. I don’t remember all of the poly positions in his brochure, but I remember that it’s not a hardcore libertaran, but rather, more sensitive.
I dropped the kick from a certain position he took and thought it made sense. I proposed a federal civil servant system and returned to a 19th century style looting system. I think he took me in, or maybe the pamphlet was that the advantage of such a system is that it’s cheaper. I’m not positive anymore that’s a good idea, but I think so.
I was talking about Manny with my friend Eric Garris this morning. Eric worked for Office from 1974 to 1975 and came to know Manny like that. Manny was part of a group with a reason in 1970 from founder Lanny Friedlander. It was a small publication at the time. But Eric says Manny is engaging in increasing business reasons.
The famous inscription of British architect Sir Christopher Wren was “If you need a monument, circspix.” Translation: Readers, if you are looking for his monument, look around. It is registered in his grave at St. Paul’s Cathedral, one of the 56 churches he contributed to the construction, including St. Paul’s Cathedral itself, after the massive fire in London in 1666.
Similarly, if you are looking for a Manny monument, look at the reasons and the basics of reasons.
Note: Brian Doherty and Bob Poole had great memories of Manny.
PS Later today, I will post more personal memories of Manny in my substance. I’ll update it here when it’s done.
Here is a link to my personal Manny thanks.
