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Description
Le
Québécois Libre is a libertarian webzine that was launched in
February 1998 by Martin Masse, its current owner and
publisher. It is published on the 15th of every month. It is not connected to any organization
and receives no funding. All its contributors are volunteers. Martin
Masse
and Gilles Guénette, its editor, take care
of the editing, the lay out, the correspondence and the
coordination of the magazine.
QL started out as a publication whose purpose was to offer a libertarian
viewpoint on Quebec current affairs. Its name is a pun on the nationalist
slogan "Québec libre": instead of promoting the sovereignty and
freedom of an ever larger and tyrannical Quebec state, its
goal was to promote the sovereignty and freedom of individual
Quebecers.
However, its network of contributors and its readership
quickly grew to include French-speakers in Europe, as well
as English-speakers in North America and elsewhere. It now
has a North American and European section (distinguished by
the respective green continent above the title of each
article) and covers topics as varied as the origin and
interests of its contributors. It remains the only real
libertarian magazine produced anywhere in French, and its
bilingual and multinational character allows it to reach
readers all over the world. Its archives contain over 2500
pages, which makes
it one of the largest Websites in
Quebec in terms of content available for free.
Philosophy
QL promotes libertarianism and classical liberalism, that is, a philosophy
that sees individual liberty, the free market and voluntary cooperation
as the basis for social relations. It is opposed to state intervention
and to collectivist ideologies, of either the right or the left, whose
aim is to force individuals to conform to their values and goals (see "What
is libertarianism?").
There
exist several libertarian and classical liberal schools of thought (Austrian,
Objectivist, neoclassical, minarchist and anarchist, etc.) whose methodologies
and conclusions differ on several points. The one that we favour at QL (but not to the exclusion of others)
is the Austrian school, whose main historical figures are
Ludwig von Mises, Murray Rothbard and Friedrich Hayek.
QL’s
mission is not to be a forum for debate among libertarians, but to offer
a wide range of analyses and commentaries so as to educate and inform its
readers who share the libertarian philosophy, and others interested in
discovering new ideas and perspectives. In short, to broaden the scope
of libertarian contribution to public debates and bring those ideas to
a wider audience. Although all articles share this general libertarian
or classical perspective, each author is responsible for his or her own
particular opinions.
Past and
present contributors
Adam
Allouba, Thibaut
André,
Christopher
Awuku,
Paul
Beaudry, Jayant
Bhandari, Patrick
Bonney,
Mathieu
Bréard, Jean-Louis
Caccomo,
Grégoire
Canlorbe, Scott
Carpenter, Xavier
Collet, Larry
Deck, Pierre
Desrochers,
Yvon Dionne,
André
Dorais,
Bradley
Doucet, Gérard
Dréan,
Francis
Dumouchel, Hervé
Duray, Bogdan
C.
Enache,
Sean Gabb,
Vincent
Geloso,
Olivier
Golinvaux,
Roland
Granier,
Marc Grunert,
Jasmin
Guénette,
Randy Hillier,
Carl-Stéphane
Huot,
Daniel
Jagodzinski, Philippe
Jaunet,
Claire
Joly, Richard
C.B.
Johnsson,
Mathieu Laine,
Heidi
Lange,
Jean-Hugho Lapointe, Georges
Lane,
Bertrand
Lemennicier,
Chris
Leithner,
Pierre Lemieux,
Clément
Leroy, Carlo
Lottieri, Shawn L.
Mac Farlane, David
MacRae,
Ralph Maddocks,
Stefan
Metzeler,
Christian Michel,
Jean-Luc
Migué, Mickaël
Mithra, François
Morin,
Brigitte
Pellerin,
Yvan
Petitclerc,
Michel de
Poncins, Erwan
Quéinnec,
François-René
Rideau,
Jean-Philippe
L. Risi, Jérémie T. A.
Rostan, Daniel M.
Ryan, Pascal
Salin,
Christian
Saucier, Chantal K. Saucier,
Gennady
Stolyarov II, Damien
Theillier, Pierre-Luc
Thibault, Harry
Valentine,
Pierre-Guy
Veer, Christophe
Vincent, Edward W.
Younkins.
Reprint
policy
We
want articles published in QL to be read by as many people as possible.
Those who wish to print articles directly from the
Website and distribute them are
encouraged to do so.
For reprinting an article in another format or publication (i.e., another
Website, a newspaper, magazine, book,
etc.), our policy is that:
1) permission
should first be obtained from us (write to
ql@quebecoislibre.org);
2) the article should be reprinted in its
entirety and without modification;
3) the source
should be mentioned (Le Québécois Libre, issue's number
+ date) with the Internet address of the magazine (www.quebecoislibre.org)
and the phrase "This article is reproduced with
permission from the author." |
