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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.”.
- Roderick T. Long
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.”
[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."
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.
Apr 13, 2019 · Unlike Rand—or Austrian economists like Mises, for that matter—Rothbard took free market libertarianism (and Austrian economics) to an arguably extreme conclusion: all social functions, including those traditionally handled by the state, would be best handled by private market transactions.
- Kevin Currie-Knight
- 2019
Jan 24, 2018 · In this essay, Rothbard explains why traditional left-right thinking is no longer valid and builds an understanding of liberty which pulls from both ends of the spectrum. He argues that the traditional enemies of liberty have in fact been the conservatives who fought to preserve the monarchies, theocracies, and landed aristocracies of the past.
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In the 1960s, Rothbard began questioning the alliance between libertarians and conservatives, especially given the vast difference of opinion on such issues as the Vietnam War. Rothbard concluded that libertarianism had its roots in the political left, and therefore that libertarians of the Old Right would be better suited in alliance with the ...
