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Jul 1, 2001 · Rothbard writes, “At the heart of the egalitarian left is the pathological belief that there is no structure of reality; that all the world is a tabula rasa that can be changed at any moment in any desired direction by the mere exercise of human will.”
In his classic “Anatomy of the State,” Rothbard answers that the State is a predatory institution derailing the efforts of people to lead their own lives. Precisely the key task of libertarianism is to combat the State’s nefarious activities, in so doing exposing the State as inherently oppressive.
1. ISM AS A REVOLT AGAINST NATUREF or well over a century, the Left has generally been con-ceded to have morality, justice, and “idealism” on its side; the Conservative opposition to the Left has largely been confined to the “i. practicality” of its ideals. A common view, for example, is that socialism is splendid “in theory,” but ...
Jan 1, 2001 · In "Egalitarianism...", in addition to some very nice quotes, Rothbard early on tears down the economists who sneak the doctrine into their writings, and then later explains why: "This means, of course, that equality of all men—the egalitarian ideal—can only be achieved if all men are precisely uniform, precisely identical with respect to ...
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[112] In it, Rothbard wrote: "At the heart of the egalitarian left is the pathological belief that there is no structure of reality; that all the world is a tabula rasa that can be changed at any moment in any desired direction by the mere exercise of human will."
Apr 8, 2006 · For Rothbard the socialist left comprises two distinct strands. One is a “right-wing, authoritarian strand,” promoting “statism, hierarchy, and collectivism”; this strand Rothbard dismisses as “a projection of conservatism trying to accept and dominate the new industrial civilization.”.
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Dec 4, 2014 · More specifically, Rothbard presented a rigorous modern defense of the traditional proportionality principle of punishment as contained in the lex talionis—of an eye for an eye, or rather, as he would correctively explain, two eyes for an eye. He rejected the deterrence and rehabilitation theories of punishment as incompatible with private ...
