Editing Loompanics (section)

== Market position ==
[[File:LoompanicsHQ.jpg|thumb|right|Former "world headquarters" of Loompanics in [[Port Townsend, Washington|Port Townsend]], [[Washington (state)|Washington]]]]
In addition to Loompanics' large annual catalog of all its stock, Loompanics regularly mailed its customers a thinner quarterly supplement featuring a selection of books interspersed with articles about government propaganda and conspiracies, and/or underground resistance. The addressing side of the cover included a World War II American graphic of an eagle carrying a stack of volumes and the slogan, "Our men want books!"

Loompanics did not fall into the categories of mainstream [[Liberalism|liberal]], [[Conservatism in the United States|conservative]], or [[Libertarianism|libertarian]] politics. While Michael Hoy expresses a preference for free markets, he also criticizes libertarians for championing multinational corporations, which he describes in a 2005 article<ref name="hoy-2005">{{cite magazine |url=http://www.loompanics.com/Articles/whycorporations.html |title=Why corporations are not people, and the unsavory consequences of pretending that they are: A challenge to 'libertarians' |first=Mike |last=Hoy |date=Spring 2005 |magazine=Loompanics Supplement |location=Port Townsend, WA |publisher=Loompanics Unlimited |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070626045114/http://www.loompanics.com/Articles/whycorporations.html |archive-date=2007-06-26}}</ref> as being entirely different entities from individuals. Hoy characterizes them as governmental entities, since their [[limited liability]] is the result of government fiat, rather than contractual dealings among individuals. Thus, in some ways, Hoy argues,<ref name="hoy-2005" />  corporations have more rights than individuals. He also criticized<ref name="hoy-2005" /> libertarians for brainwashing themselves, stating:

{{blockquote |text="Libertarian" followers have been taught numerous thought-stopping techniques by "Libertarian" leaders, so that anyone who attempts to discuss the non-market reality of corporations is slapped with a negative label ("anti-corporate," "anti-trade," etc.&nbsp;— there are lots), and then any questions raised by that person are literally unthinkable to "Libertarians."}}

Hoy's articles, which systemically lambasted the policies of all major political groups, earned him the wrath of organizations across the political spectrum.<ref>{{cite magazine |first=Scott |last=Kauzlarich |date=May 10, 2005 |url=http://rationalargumentator.com/issue35/loompanics.html |title=A libertarian response to Loompanics Unlimited |magazine=The Rational Argumentator: A Journal for Western Man |volume=35 |access-date=26 March 2021}}</ref>

Loompanics' FAQ stated that the company's name is a play on words inspired by Hoy's fondness for ''[[National Lampoon (magazine)|National Lampoon]]''.<ref>{{cite web |date=2016-02-02 |url=https://makinguse.artmuseum.pl/en/loompanics-unlimited/ |title=Loompanics Unlimited |website=Making Use: Life in Postartistic Times |publisher=Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw |access-date=26 March 2021}} [https://makinguse.artmuseum.pl/en/o-wystawie/ Credits]</ref>