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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.”
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
[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."
Jan 24, 2018 · In this essay, Rothbard explains why traditional left-right thinking is no longer valid and builds an understanding of liberty which pulls from both ends of the spectrum.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.
Apr 13, 2019 · With Rothbard, this anti-authoritarian outgrowth of the American left wing was concerned with protesting the United States’ increasingly aggressive foreign policy and increasingly bureaucratic government.
- Kevin Currie-Knight
- 2019
Aug 22, 2024 · In 1973 he published a curious article, “Egalitarianism as a Revolt Against Nature.” There he argued that the left-wing obsession with people’s equality runs contrary to our natural inequalities, and so is an affront against reality.
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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 growing anti-authoritarianism of the New Left.
