Chapter 21 of 21 · Egalitarianism as a Revolt Against Nature, and Other Essays by Murray N. Rothbard
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A
A Way Out, xii
Abolitionist movement, 27, 192
Abrams, M.H., vii, 297–98, 300n
Academics as parasites on capitalist economies, 287
Advertising, as villain, 141–42
Affluent Society, The (Galbraith), 175
Africa
West, 270–71
Agriculture Department, 40
Aldridge, John W., 262
Amazonian empire, 12
American Anthropologist, 274n
American Constitution, 71–72, 76, 85
American Economic Review, 245n, 270
American Historical Review,64n
American Political Science Review, 34n
American Revolution, 23, 46, 192–93
American Sociological Review, 274n
Anarcho-communism
communal living, 200–01
egalitarianism, 201
irrationality, 203
poles apart from libertarian principles, 199
reviles private property, 199–200
violence of, 200
Andrews, Stephen Pearl, 248n
Anti-Dühring (Engels), 18, 258
Aquinas, Thomas, 223
Aristotle, 19, 223, 225, 260, 264, 267
history of, 226–38
policy prescription of, 234–35see alsoBusiness cycle theory, intervention
Avrich, Paul, 195
B
Babbit, Irving, 265
Baby market, 153–54
Baby ring, 154
Bakunin, Mikhail, xxi, 28–29, 200
Barker, E., 96n
Barnes, Harry Elmer, 65n
Bastiat, Frédéric, 192
Bastille, 191
Beale, Howard K., 65n
Becker, Carl, 27n
Becker, Gary, 301n
Bellairs, Carlyon, 32
Benson, Bruce L., 299
Bicanic, Rudolf, 236n
Bill of Rights, 71
Black, Charles, 71–75
Black Panthers, 263
Bloch, Ernst, 29n
Blumenfeld, Samuel, viii
Boétie, Étienne de la, 62n, 192
Böhm-Bawerk, Eugen von, 227
Bolsheviks, 195
Bonald, Louis de, 263
Boulding, Kenneth E., 98n, 99n
Bornstein, Morris, 236n
Bourne, Randolph, 52, 53n, 81n, 131n
Brainwashed, 9–10, 12, 15, 162
Brest-Litovsk (1918), 196
Brezhnev, Leonid, 282
Brown, Norman O., xiii, 16, 203, 267
Brown, Rita Mae, 168
Brownmiller, Susan, 167
Buckley, William F., Jr., 115–16, 119
Buddhist, 265n
Bukharin, Nikolai, 48
Buridan, Jean, 300
Burks, R.V., 261n
Burnham, James, 74n
Business cycle theory, 227, 214, 232–35
Business Horizons, 49n
Butler, Eamonn, 302
C
Calhoun, John C., 75–78
Cannan, Edwin, 300
Capitalism
clearing the market, 139
developed in countryside, 23
freeing of women, 160–61
mass poverty/affluence, 138
state monopoly, 42
Captive Mind, The (Milosz), 291
Cargo Cult of New Guinea, 268n
Carlyle, Thomas, 15
Carnegie, Andrew, 39
Carson, Rachel, 220
Carter, John Mack, 158
Central planning
collapse of, 236–37
Cernuschi, Henri, 217
Chafuen, Alejandro, 301n
Chamberlain, Joseph, 32
Child rights
create their own environment, 148
focus on property rights, 146
free to run away/select new guardians, 147–48, 153–54
inherent “class struggle,” 148
peer group tyranny, 150–51
self-ownership, 147
vexing problem of, 145see alsoParents
China, 282
Cultural Revolution, 260
fundamentalist communism of, 258
intellectuals in, 258n
Chodorov, Frank, 87n
Citizen as dupe of the state, 207
Civilization, 204
as artificial, 276
economic knowledge essential for, 237
rational and purposive action, 264
Coase, Ronald, 91
Cobden, Richard, 192
Coefficients, The, 31–32
Collective security as maximizing extent of war, 83, 126n
Colombia, 273
Communism
absurd ideal and, 97
as key to Marxism, 254–55
contravene natural law, 98
creation of Superman, 259–60
eradication of division of labor, 255–62
hatred of human difference, 256, 263
ruling class, 98
vanguard as necessary for, 283
Communist Manifesto, The (Marx) xxiv
Comte, Auguste, 28
Comte, Charles, 28–29n
Conservation, problems of
environment
compulsory birth control, 180
deficient historical knowledge, 179
esthetics, 178
overcrowding, 179
romanticist back-to-nature, 180–81
free-market approach, 182–83
government failure, 186–89
intellectuals and herd mentality
automation hysteria, 176
fashion, 175
stagnation thesis, 175
intervention of government, 183–84
ocean aquaculture, 185–86
pollutants, 186–88
private property and, 185, 187–89
resource use, 181–82
Conservatism
confusion with anarchism and national sovereignty, 122
dying remnant of the ancien régime, 21
mistakenly linked with liberty, 22
Nock/Mencken and, 44
pessimism of, 21
program of nationalism, imperialism, and collectivism, 31
socialism as heir of, 28
Coolidge, Calvin, 44
Costs
subjective, 91
Croly, Herbert, 42
Cuba, 282
New Left admiration for, 257
Cultural Revolution, 260
Cunningham, Robert L., 121
Current History Magazine, 37
D
Davis, Horace O., 33n
Dawkins, Sir Clinton, 32
Dawson, Christopher, 88n
Debs, Eugene Victor, 32
Declaration of Independence, 278
Degenerate intellectual climate, 171
Democracy, participatory, 282–83
Demsetz, Harold, 91
Democratic Convention (1972), 11, 292
Democrats, 43
Despotism, 248
Didion, Joan, 15
Disarmament
condemnation of any State participation in war, 128
elimination of all methods of mass annihilation, 130
good for its own sake, 120
Disquisition (Calhoun), 75
Division of labor, 163
as necessary for civilization, 249–50
eradication of, 255–62
inequality and, 277
Mises and, 301–03
Smith and, 299–300
wealth and, 251–53
Romantics on, 265–66
Dodds, Gordon B., 181n
Dodge, Gregg Sherwood, 170
Dolan, Edwin G., 99n
Duberman, Martin, 245n
Due, John F., 3–4
Dunoyer, Charles, 28–29n
E
Ecology, 176
Economics
challenge to power policy, 230–31
fallacious paradigm, 225–26
essential knowledge of, 237
fundamental social phenomenon, 301–03
history of, 226–38
ignorance of, 202
mathematics and, 224
Mises’s insights, 301–03
political action and, 229–31
social costs, 91–92
systematic treatises, 225–26, 229–31
Economic Journal, 270n
Economists
immunity from criticism, 3–4
value judgments of, 3
Eddy, Arthur Jerome, 41
Education, New Left theory of, 283–84
Egalitarianism
achievement of goals by totalitarian methods, 8
consensus of opinion, 3
counterbalancing uncriticized “ideal,” 5
culture
as bogeyman, 10
brainwashing and, 10–12
denial of human intelligence and reason, 19
destruction of civilization, 20
education, 283–84
egalitarianism as series of acts of choice, 19
envy and, 287
equality, 6
fantasies, 17–20
genetic basis, 16–17
handicapping, 289
homosexual behavior, 15–16
human diversity, 288
incorrect theories, 5
knowledge and, 290
methodology, 20
of condition, 279
ontological structure of reality, 17–20
oppressions, 290
phoney humanism, 201
politically correct, 290–91
psychological drives, 9–10
quotas and, 10–12
revolt against nature, 15–17, 20
surrogate of “society,” 3–4
unquestioned ethical status, 2
value judgments and truth, 4
women and, 12–15
Ely, Richard T., 41
Engels, Freidrich, 18, 33, 258, 299
Envy
panders to, 287
in primitive societies, 272–74
Equality, 277–86
Ethics of Liberty, The (Rothbard), ix,
Europe
Eastern, 261n
Social Democratic parties in, 282
Exchange, 58
role of property rights, 89–90, 105
Externalities, 91
F
Fabianism and the Empire (Shaw), 31
Facial Justice (Hartley), 7, 288
Faith and Freedom (Schwartzman), 60n
Family, extended, 270–71
Farm price supports, 232
Federal government, 77
Federal law, nullification of, 77
Federal Reserve, 40
Federal Trade Commission, 40
Feldman, Saul D., 295–96
Feminine Mystique, The (Friedman), 159
Ferguson, Adam, 300
Fichte, Johann Gottlieb, 205
Filich, Ivan, 155
Firestone, Shulamith, 15
Firth, Raymond, 270n
Fisher, J. Greevz, 218
Fitzhugh, George, 231n
Fortune, 177
Foundation for Economic Education (FEE), 242
France, conservatives in, 263
Frankel, S. Herbert, 271
Frankfurter, Felix, 35
Freedom, 248–53
Free market, 160–61, 163, 167, 208
French Revolution, 23, 46, 193
Friedman, David, 299n
Fromm, Erich, 267
Fuller, Margaret, 15
G
Galbraith, John Kenneth, 138–42, 175
Gamarnikow, Michael, 237
Garden of Eden, 203
Garrison, William Lloyd, 244–45
Garvin, J.L., 32
Gasset, José Ortega y, 203–04, 276n
Geldwertstabilisierung und Konjunkturpolilik (Mises), 227
George, Henry, 102–03, 209, 218
Germany, and national socialism, 30
Gilchrist, David T., 40n
Goals
challenge of, 6–8
Godwin, William, 19
Gold standard, 233
Goodman, Paul, 155
Gould, Jay, 297n
Government
coercion, 57
defenseless against nuclear weapons, 126
definer of property rights misplaced, 92–95
essential services, 143
fallacy of, 55–56
fears of conquest and revolutionary overthrow, 80–82
forming mutually profitable alliances with states for joint exploitation, 78
highwayman and, 206–07
“horizontal” and “vertical” violence of, 122
incompatible with liberty or morality, 205
just property and, 109
keystone of power is taxation, 121
methods of control
appear inevitable, 67
church, 65
confusion of terms of association, 65
conspiracy versus “social forces,” 68
court “historians,” 64
depreciate individual and critical thinking, 67
education, 63
fear of alternative systems, 66
ideology, 62
inducing guilt, 68
“intellectual” rewards, 63
judicial branch, 72–76
passive resignation, 68
supplier of services, 121, 142
territorial identification, 66
theft as economics, 69
ultrascientific planning by experts, 69
vested economic interests, 62
monopoly of aggressive violence and over crimes, 120–21
neomercantilism and, 30
paradigm, classic, 60
peace as only aggressiveness against own subjects, 122
permanent opposition to genuinely private capital, 79–80
positive acts and, 153
progressive education, 150–52
self preservation, 61–70, 81, 131–32
transcends limits
distorts ideals, 71
transforms concepts, 70
unintended consequences of, 232
weak or nonexistent where capitalism flourished, 23
what it is not
productive, 59
representative of us, 56
us, 55–56
Gray, Alexander, 18, 18n, 19, 256–57n, 260
Great Transformation, The (Polanyi), 263
Green, Arnold W., 14
Greenstreet, Sydney, 296
Grey, Edward, 32
Groth, Alexander J., 34n
Guardian, The, 261n
Guevara, Che, 254
Gunboat diplomacy, 129
H
Haldane, Richard B., 32
Hamowy, Ronald, 28
Hanseatic League, 23
Happiness, 267
Harper’s, 13n
Hayek, F.A., xvi, xxii, 49, 63n, 302
socialist calculation debate, 236n
Hazlitt, Henry, 49
Hearn, Lafcadio, 151–52
Heath, Spencer, 89
Hegelians, 297
Henry, Patrick, 192
Henry VIII, 80
Herbert, Auberon, 218
Hernstein, Richard, 17
Hershkovits, Melville J., 270n
Hess, Karl, 191
Himmelfarb, Gertrude, 24–25n
Hirshleifer, Jack, 187n
History of man, brutal and despotic tyranny, 192
History of science, “Whig” theory, 219
Hobbes, Albert H., 267
Hodgskin, Thomas, 205
Hoff, Trygve J.B., 236
Holland, 23
Holmberg, Allan, 272
Holy Writ, 73
Homstead principle, 96, 101–03, 108–13
House of Hohenzollern, intellectuals as bodyguards of, 42, 64
Howe, Irving, 13–15n
Human Action (Mises), 228–29, 231n, 237
Humboldt, Wilhelm von, 248n
Hurley, Edward N., 40
Huszar, George B. de, 63n–64n
I
ICC, 40
Illinois Manufacturers Association, 40
I’d Push the Button (Read), 242
freedom to be fully human, 248–50, 253
hatred of, 263
in primitive and preindustrial society, 273–78
repressed, 268–69
unique, 247
Industrial Revolution, 23–24, 46–47, 193, 252–53, 262
Inflation
distortion of prices and production, 234
exploitation of society, 212
gold standard and, 233
popularity of, 213–14
recession and, 234 see alsoBusiness cycle theory
Ingalls, Joshua K., 209–10
Inheritance, 106
Injustice, 241–42
Institute for Humane Studies, xvii
Institutionalized envy, 274
Intellectual herd mentality, 175
Intercollegiate Review, The, 152
Interest
rate of, 214
time preference and, 215
International law
civilized war vs. total war, 84–85
limit inter-State destruction, 83
preserve private citizens of neutral and warring countries, 83
Interventionism
failures, 230–32
fractional reserve and, 217
monopolists and, 39
poverty, war, retrogression and, 230
textbook cases, 232
unintended consequences of, 232
worse than highwayman, 206
Irish Republican Army, 123
Iron Law of Oligarchy, 8, 281–82, 285–86
Israeli kibbutzim, 14
Italy, seeFascism
J
Japan, 269
Japanese (progressive) 151
Jaszi, Oscar, 62n
Jefferson, Thomas, 8
Jensen, A.R., 223
Journal of American History, 181n
Journal of Legal Studies, 299n
Journal of Libertarian Studies, 299n
Journal of Political Economy, 250n
Jouvenel, Bertrand de, 60n, 63n, 65n, 70, 80n
Judicial system as free market, 208–09
Justice
commands of, 245
privately-competitive judges, 208n–09n
property and, 96–106
property rights and, 89–113
K
Keynes, John Maynard, 2n
Keynesian
deficit spending, 234
economic managers, 50
equations, 69
Revolution, 227–28
writers, 212
Kilby, Peter, 270n
Kirk, Russell, 28
Kluckhohn, Clyde, 272
Knowledge
as “rape of nature,” 290
economic, 237
substantive, 230
Kolakowski, Leszek, 297–98
Kolko, Gabriel, 38–42n
Kommunist (Belgrade), 261n
Kosygin, Alexi, 282
Kuhn, Thomas, xx, 219, 221, 229
L
Labedz, Leopold, 29n
Labor
as a source of property rights, 99–107
sale of services, 106
Ladd, Allen, 296
Ladies’ Home Journal, 158
Laissez-faire, 47
Land
alternatives of, 102
problem of underdeveloped countries, 210
“rights” and, 104
ruling class and, 102
Lange, Oskar, 236
LaPiana, George, 35n
Lavoisier, Charles, 221
Law as valuable good, 208
“Law of Equal Liberty” (Spencer), 278
Law of property, 161
Law of war, 127
Left and Right, vii, xiii, xxiii
Lenin, V.I., 18, 33, 196, 259n, 283
Lescase, Lee, 258n
Levellers, 192
Lewis, John D., 62n
Lewis, Oscar, 272–73
Lewis, W. David, 40n
Liberal, 25
classical, 278
Liberalism
decline of, 25–26
desire for liberty and, 47
enemy of, 52
failure of leadership, 44–46
great tradition, 50
proper strategy, 52
right wing and, 46
society of contract and, 23
struggle against feudalism, 27
youth and, 53
Liberated Guardian, The, 261n
Liberation, 64n
Liberator, The (1831), 245
Liberman Plan, The, 48
Libertarian Forum, The, vii, x, xii, 297n
Libertarianism
abolish all invasions of liberty, 243
activities of monopolized area, 125
avoidance of war, 125
complete unfinished revolution, 193
creating movement as prime task, 240
economic science and policy, 211, 218
fallacies of
land, 218
money, 211–12
fundamental rule and implications of, 116
frame goals, 244
genuine, 243
ideal society, 206
justice and injustice, 241–42
law protects principles, 208
motivations, 239–40
national liberation and, 196, 198
principles, 244
property title validation, 107–13
province of law, 153
radical passion, 242
slavery rejected, 98
sue for peace, 125–26
strategy, 244
theory of justice, 241–43
truths, 116
utopian, 115
war and, 115–32
world’s crucial problems and, 115–16
Liberty
as a right, 279
desire for, 47
equal, 278
suppression of masses, 50
Ligt, Bartelemy De, 130
Locke, John, 71, 96n, 101n, 219
Lukacs, John, 64n
M
Maccoby, Eleanor, 13
Machiavelli, 224–25
Mackinder, Halford J., 32
Maeterlinck, Maurice, 265
Maine, Henry, 22
Maistre, Joseph Marie de, 263
Male
henpecked, 165
Malinowski, Bronislaw, 13
Markets
as radical evil, 255
division of labor, 249–53
in primitive societies, 269–70
Yugoslavia and free, 261
Market research, 141
Marx, Karl, vi, xxi, 19, 28–29, 33, 88n, 254–56, 260, 300
Marxism
communism as key to, 254
hatred of human difference of, 253–54, 257
Marxist, xii, 211, 253–58, 287, 297
Material productive forces, 68
Mathematics and social sciences, 224
Maxse, Leopold, 32
Maxwell, James Clerk, 220
McGovern, George, 11
Men
as oppressed class, 164–65
Mencken, H.L., 44, 67n, 69, 82n, 286
Menger, Carl, 227
Mexico, 272–73
Michels, Robert, 281–82
Milchman, Alan, 29n
Military-industrial complex, 42–43
Mill, James, 225
Mill, John Stuart, 106
Millett, Kate, 13–14
Milliman, Jerome, 187n
Milner, Viscount, 32
Milosz, Czeslaw, 291
Mises, Ludwig von, xii, xvi, xix, 17–19n, 49, 61n–62n, 147, 161n, 201–03, 217, 219–38, 251, 257–62, 264–66, 268, 275, 299–303
Modern Age,v, vi, xii, xxiii, 76n
Molinari, Gustav de, 192
Monetarism, 233–34
Money
commodity of general acceptance, 105, 216
fractional reserve, 217
on the free market, 232–35
Moore, Barrington Jr., 193n
Morgan, J.P., 39
Morgan, Robin, 169
Mosca, Gaetano, 282
Moseley, Sir Oswald, 31
Müller, Adam, 262n
Mutualist, 212
Mussolini, Benito, 31
Myth of New-Fair Deal-as-Red, 39
N
Napoleon, 297
National Liberation
great swindle of collective security, 197
justice, 198
libertarian principle perspective, 196–97
tragic consequences of opposition, 195–96
Nationalökonomie (Mises), 227
National Organization for Women (NOW), 159
National product, 133
statistical fallacies, 137
National Review, 153
Natural law, 268
Navaho Indians, 272
NAZI, 56
Needham, Joseph, 64n
Nef, John U., 84n–85n
New Economic Policy, 48
New Guinea, 268n
New Individualist Review, ix, 40n, 57n, 209
New Left, 155, 254–62, 268, 282–84, 288
educational theory of, 283–84
reversion to primitive magic, 268
New Republic, 42
New York Post, 297n
New York Sunday Times Magazine, 167, 171
New York Times Review of Books, 15n, 64n, 179n
New Yorker, 213
Newsweek, 290–91
Newton, Sir Isaac 220
Nickerson, Hoffman, 84n
Nisbet, Robert A., 152n
Nock, Albert Jay, viii, xi, 43–45, 60n, 86, 87n, 121n, 131, 286–87
November Review, The,29n
NRA, 37
Nuclear war, 119–20, 123, 126, 128
O
Office of Price Administration, 242
class exploitation and, 24
enemy of liberty, 22–23
Oppenheimer, Franz, viii, 58–60n
Organization Man, The (Whyte), 43
Orwellian
dystopias, 290
memory hole, 226
Owl, The, 63n
P
Pacific Historical Review, The, 65n
Paine, Tom, 192
Paradigm
analysis of, 219–29
fallacious paradigms, 223–26
forgotten truths, 226
mathematics and, 224
model, 220–25
shift, 221–22
social science and, 223–25
successor can be less correct, 222
Parasitism, 97
Parents
moral role of, 149–50
Paterson, Isabel, 151–52
Patrides, C.A., 298n
Patten, Simon N., 41
Peace, 115–32
Pearson, Benjamin, 243
Pease, Jane H., 244
Pease, William H., 244
Peck, Susan L., 171
Peden, Joseph R., 299n
Peking Review, 261n
Pessimism, 51–52
Philbrook, Clarence, 245n
Phlogiston Theory, 221–23
Physical science as contrasted with social science, 223–26
Plato, 225
Plotinus, 298
Polanyi, Karl, vi, 263–64, 299
Policy failures, 230
Political action
economics and, 229–31
unintended consequences of, 232
Political Correctness, 290–91
affirmative action, 293–94
change of standards, 292–93
feelings, 291
knowledge and, 290
quotas, 291–94
racism, 293
Pound, Ezra, 212
Power, 52,
at war with capitalist authorities, 79–80
race between man and nature, 86–88
Practicality (status quo), 1–2
Priestley, Joseph, 220
Primitivism, 267–76
Producer, 103
Production
as limiting population, 253
property rights and, 99–103
Productivity
contribution, 280
division of labor increases, 251
Progressive Era, 36–38, 40, 42
allocation of, 91–96
alternatives, 102
“benefit of the doubt” cases, 111
concept of government and, 109
confiscators, 100
conservation, 187–89
enemy of, 200
establishment of rules, 146–47
government and, 92–96
inheritance and, 106–13
invariably explains rights, 146
“just” exchange, 90
justice and, 89–113
justification of rights to, 103–05
labor and, 99–107
peasant claim to, 112–13
restoration, 108–13
role of titles in, 89–90
theft and, 107–13
theories of, 147
third world and, 111–13
true owner, 107
services, 106
United States and, 111
utilitarianism and, 92–96
validation of titles, 107–13
Proudhon, Pierre Joseph, 212
Public sector
annoyance at the consumer, 139–40
bureaucratic, 140
coercion, 134
equally productive with private, 133
external benefits, 142
parasitic, 136–37
productivity determined solely by
expenditure, 136
propaganda, 141–42
Pueblo Indians, 272
R
Rabin, A.I., 14n
Radical Review, 218
Raskin, Marcus, 64n
Read, Conyers, 64n
Read, Leonard E., 242
Rationality, 235–37
Reichel-Dolmatoff, Alicia, 273n
Reichel-Dolmatoff, Gerardo, 273n
Rent control, 232
Republicans, 43
Review of Austrian Economics, 298n, 302
Revolution
activist movements, 193
complex movement, 191–93
libertarians to complete unfinished job, 193
not just acts of physical confrontation with government, 191
socialism a reactionary reversion not revolution, 193
theories and principles of, 192–93
Ribs, Jeanne, 64n
Rickenbacker, William, 153
Robbins, Caroline, 192,
Robin Hood, 117
Rockefeller, Bobo, 170
Rockefeller, John D. Sr., 297n
creation as evil act, 298
denunciation of division of labor by, 265–66
exaltation of the primitive by, 264–76, 297–99
feelings replace reasoning, 265
movement, 264
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 35, 42
Roosevelt, Theodore, 39–42
Roover, Raymond de, 301n
Rothbard, Murray N., xxiiff., 18n, 35n–36n, 57n, 76n, 140n, 209n, 214n, 217n, 279n, 292, 297–98
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 29n, 263
Ruchames, Louis, 245n
Ruhle, Jurgen, 29n
S
Saint-Simon, Comte de, Claude Henri de Rouvroy, 28–29
Salerno, Joseph, 301–02
Salvemini, Gaetano, 35n
Samora, Julian, 274n
San Bernardino of Siena, 301
Sarich, Vincent, 291
Scarcity, 202–03
Schlissel, Lillian, 53n
Schoeck, Helmut, 7, 271–75, 287–89
Scholastics, 300
Schumpeter, Joseph A., 30, 57n, 63n, 134n, 137–38, 176n
Schwartzman, Jack, 60n
Science, 291n
Science and Society, 33n
Scott, Anthony, 184
Second International, 33
Self-ownership, 96–107
alternatives to, 97
child, 147–50
production and, 99–100
right of, 96
slavery and, 98
Selvin, Paul, 291n
Semmel, Bernard, 31–32n
Sennett, Richard, 179n
Seward, G.H., 14n
Shaw, George Bernard, 31–32
Shih, Tung-Hsiang, 261n
Shils, Edward A., 158
Shockley, Richard B., 223
Siegel, Bernard, 270
Silberman, Charles, 263n, 266–67
Simons, Henry C., 3–4
misleading views, 299–300
Smith, Al, 44
Smith, J. Allen, 77n
Snider, Arthur J., 296n
Sobran, Joseph, 295
Social Credit Movement, 212
Social Darwinism, 26
Social imperialism, 30
Social Research, 261n
Social science as contrasted with physical science, 223–26
Social Statics (Spencer), 26
Socialism
academics, 41
Bismarck, 41
calculation failure, 49, 235–36
contradictions of, 29–30
crises of statism, 47
flight from, 287
inevitable breakdown of, 48
irrational, 235–37
middle-of-road, 28
misled by Saint-Simon, 29
new movement of, 27
retreat from central planning, 48
right wing, 30
Solanis, Valerie, 163
split with China, 258
Spencer, Herbert, 22, 26, 79n, 205, 278–79
Spooner, Lysander, xii, xxii, 205–18, 302
Stanwood, Edward, 218
State, seeGovernment
Stern, Meta L., 257n
Stigler, George J., 250n
Stone, Christopher D., 40n
Sumner, William Graham, 159
Supreme Court, 292
changed constitutional power of congress over national economy, 75
imparts legitimacy to state, 75
monopoly of ultimate interpreting power, 76
part of government, 72–76
“something of a miracle,” 74
violates basic juridical principle, 73
T
Tabula rasa, 17
Taft, William Howard, 36–37, 40
Taoist, 265n
Tax, Sol, 270–73
Taxation as keystone of State power, 121
Technological Society, The (Ellul), 263
Terborgh, George, 176n
Theory of Money and Credit, The (Mises), 227, 233
Theory, separation between practice and, 5–6
Thernstrom, Stephan, 293
Time preference
interest and, 214–15
profit and, 215–16
wages and, 215
Tito, Marshall, 254n
Tolstoy, Lev Nicolayevich, xxi
Tower, Sen. John, 297n
Treaties, sanctity of, 85
Triumph of Conservatism, The (Kolko), 38
Trotsky, Leon, vii, 19, 24, 260
Tuccille, Jerome, 188n
Tucker, Benjamin R., xii, xxi, 205–18
Tuveson, Ernest L., 298n
U
U.S. Steel, 39
United States
academics in, 287
freedom in, 252
suppressor of revolutionary process, 50
Utopia (Bebel), 259
Utilitarians, 25
apologists of status quo, 93–94, 113
defense of “just property rights” failure of, 89–96
restoring questionable property, lack of groundwork, 93–94
slave market and, 95
unsatisfactory for developing libertarian movement, 240
V
Velikovsky, Immanuel, 220
Violence
criminal act, 117
horizontal and vertical, 122
mass murder worst of crimes, 120
murder, 118
numbers involved, 119
rigorously limit, 119
Virginia Bill of Rights, 278
W
Wages, 215
Walden Pond, 180
War
communism abandoned, 202
domestic tyranny, 131
libertarians and, 115–32
nuclear weapons
crime against humanity, 120
no justification for, 120
Ward, Lester, 41
Warhol, Andy, 163
Washington Post, The, 258n
WASP, 159
Watson, James B., 274
Wealth
economic means, 58
political means, 59
Wealth of Nations (Smith), 299
Webb, Beatrice, 31
Webb, Sidney, 31
Weber, Max, 4
Western Europe
myth about historians, 22
imperialism by, 129n
Whyte, William H., Jr., 43
Williamson, R.G., 14n
Wilson, Charles, 296n
Wilson, Woodrow, 39
Wittfogel, Karl A., 64n–65n, 252n
Wittreich, Joseph, 298n
Wolfe, Eric R., 274n
Wolfe, Tom, 263n
Women’s liberation
abandon heterosexuality, 168–69
birth of, 172n
brainwashing, 162
day care, 167
freedom, 160–61
leisure class, 164
male oppressors, 157–59
only parent to raise children, 166
quota argument, 159
sex objects, 169–72
types of jobs, 159–60
Woodstock Nation, 264n
Woodward, C. Vann, 231n
World War II, 43–45, 128, 137, 202, 288
Y
Yeats, William Butler, 172
Youth and life, 53
shift toward free markets, 236–37
Program of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia (1958), 26\1n
About the Author
Murray N. Rothbard (1926–1995), the author of 25 books and thousands of articles, was dean of the Austrian School of economics, restorer of the Old Right, and founder of modern libertarianism. The S.J. Hall Distinguished Professor of Economics at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, he was also Academic Vice President of the Ludwig von Mises Institute.
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