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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.
[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."
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 ...
Apr 8, 2006 · Let me begin by placing Rothbard’s “Left and Right” in conversation with a piece published by the great classical liberal Herbert Spencer over eighty years earlier, titled “The New Toryism.” 3 The two articles might initially seem antithetical: Spencer was warning libertarians against the Left, and opening the door to an alliance with elements on the Right, while Rothbard was warning ...
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Dec 4, 2014 · He had read Rothbard’s earlier Man, Economy, and State, Power and Market, and For A New Liberty, [13] and in the acknowledgments to his book he noted that “it was a long conversation about six years ago with Murray Rothbard that stimulated my interest in individualist anarchist theory.” To be sure, the conclusions arrived at by Nozick were less radical than those proposed by Rothbard.
May 11, 2014 · Don't do it! In 1982 Murray Rothbard published his magnum opus in political philosophy, The Ethics of Liberty. It is a tour de force, a remarkable presentation of the moral case for political ...
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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 ...
