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--Ludwig von Mises--
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--Murray N. Rothbard--
Epater le Bourgeois is, as Charles Burris phrases it, “the revolutionary rallying cry of the left.” It is French and it is translated to mean “shock the bourgeoisie.” To make it more applicable to our setting, the strategy can be…
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The Quest for Community: A Study in the Ethics of Order and Freedom, by Robert Nisbet The argument of this book is that the single most decisive influence upon Western social organization has been the rise and development of the…
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This post is intended to be a quick note, and in no way a complete investigation into the matter. As I have elaborated in extensive detail in the past, modern defenders of fractional reserve banking (who go by the phrase…
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The last several articles I have posted here have been reflections on the variants of socialism: both traditional marxism and reformism. I have observed that the orthodox marxists are adamant in their opposition to deviations from revolutionary attempts to establish…
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In a further expansion of my recent posts on Marxism and socialism (here, here, and here), I want to quote from Mises himself on a particular matter that will certainly enlighten. In my previous posts, I have tried to explain…
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What it comes to Universal Basic Income and other attempts to use government as a medium of wealth transfers, most opponents simply focus on the classical “incentive problem” (that is, if you subsidize non-productivity, you will keep it in existence)….
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If you haven’t liked our Facebook page, please give us a visit! This article comes directly from a certain line of reasoning that I see all throughout the libertarian world. I hope that the following article will prove to be…
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One of the points that I made in my previous article on socialism is that the Orthodox Marxists define socialism as the situation in which there is public (community) ownership of the means of production. Since historically labelled socialist regimes…
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The wonderful Justin Raimondo, a defender of the Old Guard libertarians, has a nice, sizable column on Charles Koch and his “low tax liberalism” flavor of libertarianism in the Spectator USA. Definitely worth the read.
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Quick note: I’ve decided to shift the blog section of the site from a separate subdomain to the main site, in its own category. So all future articles will show up at AustroLibertarian.com. As a followup to my article yesterday on…
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Many people active on Twitter have come across, in one way or another the Twitter account for The Socialist Party of Great Britain. One of their primary themes is apparently searching for uses of the word “socialism” and then responding…
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