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Aug 22, 2024 · Humanism and the egalitarian’s revolt against nature. An Injustice! Murray Rothbard was a right-wing libertarian economist and a cofounder of the Cato institute, who in the 1970s helped set the stage for the Reagan era. In 1973 he published a curious article, “Egalitarianism as a Revolt Against Nature.”. There he argued that the left-wing ...
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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.” Learning that there is nothing sacred or lovely about forced equality—now there is a crucial lesson for any student of liberty.
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 ...
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 property rights and championed instead the idea of ...
Jan 1, 2001 · Somewhat disappointing. There is much to like about Rothbard as a writer, economist and even as a historian of economic thought, but in many ways these essays, even the much-vaunted "Anatomy of the State," generally lack depth, and are even crankish at times (his essay on women's liberation, for example, demonstrates that Rothbard had no idea what people mean when they talk about "treating ...
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This reliance on an overt metaphysical theory isn't something I'm interpreting Rothbard to say. He says it quite clearly: To put it more precisely, if an ethical goal violates the nature of man and/or the universe and, therefore, cannot work in practice, then it is a bad ideal and should be dismissed as a goal.
The book's title comes from the lead essay, which argues that egalitarian theory always results in a politics of statist control because it is founded on revolt against the ontological structure of reality itself. According to Rothbard in this lead essay, statist intellectuals attempt to replace what exists with a Romantic image of an idealized primitive state of nature, an ideal which cannot ...
