Index

a priori truth, 8

academics, role of, 31

adversity, Rothbard’s reaction to, 109

affirmative action laws

end of, 93

role of, 36

agnosticism, 102

alternative lifestyles, advocacy of, 14

Alt-Right (Alternative Right), 78

beliefs of, summarized, 80

goals of, 81

lack of theoretical foundations for, 82

mysticism of, 20

America’s democratic capitalism 102

American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), 37n

anarchism, 110

anarcho-capitalism, 77

anti-discrimination laws

opposed, 17

role of, 44

anti-Fascist, fight against, 93f

appropriation

direct, 58

indirect, 58

original, 15, 25

original, acts of, 58

argumentation ethics, 9f, 59

Rothbard’s appraisal of, 11

Austro-libertarian theory, 102, 106

Austro-libertarianism

opposition to, 110

bad neighbor problem, 85

bad neighbors, dealing with, 83

“basket of deplorables,” 78

behavioral norms as conflict-avoidance tools, 24

beltway libertarians, drift to the left of, 115

Big-Government Libertarians (Rothbard), 23n

Blumert, Burton, 101

Bodrum (Turkey), 7

borders, open, 18

bourgeois conduct as a model of social organization, 42

Brimelow, Peter, 45, 78

Brooklyn Polytechnic, 112

Rothbard’s position at, 108

Buchanan, Patrick, 78, 81, 87

Camino Coins, 101

capitalism-is-love libertarianism, 85

Cato Institute, 13, 32n

Center for Libertarian Studies, 101

central banking, end of, 92

Chicago school (of economics), 12

civil rights vs. property rights, 37n

civilization, norms of, 10

Clinton, Hillary, 78

Code of Federal Regulations, expansion of, 67

common culture, need for, 84

common property as state property, 33

compromise

in daily life, 110

in theory, 110

conflict

as caused by scarcity, 57

avoidance of, 57, 76

conspiracies and historical events, 106

conspiracies

existence of, 105

unintended outcomes of, 105

conspiracy theory, 105

correct empirical assumptions, need for, 54

corruption, increasing under democracy, 66

costs, privatization of, 18

covetousness

moral illegitimacy of, 65

role of in democratic

politics, 65

criminal gangs, crushing of, 94f

cultural Marxism, 38, 40, 80

culture wars, 87

current possessor, presumption in favor of, 60

de-civilization, process of, 64

deductive science, economics as, 8

democracy, rising time preference under, 66

Democracy: the God that Failed (Hoppe), 13, 117

democratic state, nature of, 64

Derbyshire, John, 78

Divide et impera (Divide and Conquer), 44, 52, 67, 88

egalitarian doctrine, role of, 31

egalitarianism, 116

Egalitarianism and the Elites (Rothbard), 30n

Eigentum, Anarchie, und Staat (Hoppe), 100

elites, 80

of agents, 106

of rulers, 106

envy, role of, 64

Erkennen und Handeln (Hoppe, doctoral dissertation), 99

Ethics of Liberty (Rothbard), 11

federal crimes, multiplication of, 68

fiat property, 63f

financial crises

risks to the elites of, 52

social consequences of, 51

follow-the-money principle, 104f

For a New Liberty: a Libertarian Manifesto (Rothbard), 75

force, arguments for as a logical contradiction, 10

forced social integration, 88

opposed, 19

foreign policy of non-interventionism, 18, 91f

free immigration

financial consequences of, 51

libertarian justifications for, 45f

free market think tanks, treatment of Rothbard by, 109

free speech, limited rights to, 13

freedom of association, 17, 93

French, Doug, 9

Friedman, Milton, 110

Gabb, Sean, 78

George Mason University, 32n

Goethe University, 7

Gottfried, Paul, 26, 78

government welfare

effects of on recipients, 96

end of, 95f

government, Americans dependent on, 68

Gramscianism, 80

group victimhood, 37

gun control, end of, 95

Habermas, Jürgen, 8, 10f

Hayek, Friedrich von, 10

historical research, how to conduct, 104

history as art, 107

Hoppe, Hans-Hermann

as a cultural conservative, 13

Affirmative Action

harassment by, 114

treatment of at UNLV, 113f

human differences

denial of by the Left, 27

existence of, 26

consequences of, 27

human diversity, 16

existence of, 26

policy consequences of, 16

human mental make-up, differences in, 26

Hume, David, 8

Iglody, Lee, 9

immigrants

as uninvited and unidentified trespassers, 49

code of conduct for, 48

entry restrictions for, 48

group based admissions

standards for, 49

identity controls for, 48

screening of, 91

subsidies for, 49

immigration, 81

free or otherwise, 45

full-cost principle for, 47f

in a private property

world, 46

left-libertarian policy

for, 50

immigration pressure, historical role of, 47

impartial third party, need for in conflict resolution, 61

inequalities

among individuals, 54

among societies (cultures), 54

inequality of wealth

acceptable vs. unacceptable to the Left, 30

acceptable vs. unacceptable to the Right, 29

intellectual flexibility and tolerance, 111

intellectuals, role of as supporters of the state, 66, 86

Journal of Libertarian Studies, 12, 101

judging people and their actions, 106

justice, 57

justice, natural, system of, 62

Kant, Immanuel, 8

“Kochtopus,” the, 32n

Kritik der kausalwissenschaftlichen Sozialforschung (Hoppe), 99

Kuehneldt-Leddihn, Erik von, 116

language, perversion of, 70

Las Vegas Circle, 9

Las Vegas, Rothbard’s move to, 108

law

application of to specific cases, 60

discoverable, 59

man-made (legislation), 59

Left, the

egalitarian worldview, of 31

aspects of society viewed

with suspicion by, 39

left and right, differences between, 26ff

left-libertarianism

not possible, 54

vs. private property, 33

left-libertarians

as “useful idiots,” 53

egalitarian assumptions of, 38

Hoppe’s attacks on, 19

ideology of, 32

key intellectual problem of, 40f

State aggrandizement

by, 45

Lega Nord, 104

legal privileges for groups, role of, 87

liberalism, 75

“Libertari Fascisti,” 104

libertarian doctrine, 75f

libertarian message, target audience for, 88

libertarian strategy, 85

libertarian theory

and pragmatic rules, 16

as not sufficient, 25f

libertarianism, 75

application of, 79

basics of, 15

leftism as incompatible with, 30

principal enemies of, 86f

thick vs. multiculturalism 117

thick vs. thin, 116

thick, rules for, 55

thin, 53

thin, as cultural relativism 55

libertarians

fake, 77

honest but dim-witted, 77

liberallala, 84, 85, 91, 94

Lichtschlag, Andre, 80

limited-government-free-market industry, 111, 115

live-and-let-live principle, 82f

insufficiency of, 83

luck, undeserved, 28

Ludwig von Mises Institute, 101, 111

Lynn, Richard, 78

Maltsev, Yuri, 9

Man, Economy, and State (Rothbard), 111

Marxism, 8

mass immigration, 90f

negative effects of, 18

Mises, Ludwig von, 8, 10, 98, 99, 112

misfits, tolerance toward, 34

monopolies, behavior of, 63

monopolization of justice, 62

monopoly justice

conflict created by, 63

taxes collected to pay

for, 63

moral degeneration and corruption, examples of, 67ff

MSM (main-stream media), 80, 86, 89, 105

multi-culturalism, results of, 84

National Socialist Workers’ Party of Germany (NSDAP), 102

natural law, 59

natural order, reality’s deviation from, 62

“Neanderthal” culture, 72f

New Left, anti-war stance of, 107

New York City, Hoppe moving to, 100

New York University (NYU), 112

niceness

as a political principle 41

costs of, 41f

non-aggression principle (NAP), 11, 82

norms, purpose of, 76

Of Private, Common and Public Property and the Rationale for Total Privatization (Hoppe), 35n

“Original Sin,” 62

paleo-conservative movement, 78

patchwork of communities, a libertarian world as a, 19

Paul, Ron, 32n, 81, 117

Peine (Germany), 7

physical bodies, ownership of, 58

political correctness, 13, 80

politicians

as a class, 65

criminal activities of, 69

public attitudes to, 71

politics, avoidance of, 97

Popper, Karl, 8

power elite

imposition of by the Left, 30

roles of, 30f

Privatdozent, 99

private law society, 62, 77

private property, 57, 76

privatization of goods, 58

Property and Freedom Society, 7, 71ff, 118

membership selection

for, 73

property rights

vs. other invented rights, 116

vs. tolerance, 13

property titles, moral suspicion of by the Left, 34

property

direct control of, 24

indirect control of, 24

just vs. unjust claims to, 59

original appropriation, of 76

voluntary exchange of, 76

public education

actual purpose of, 97

end of, 96f

public facilities, use of by immigrants, 47f

public property, the State as trustee for, 47

public welfare, role of, 87

pure theory, 106

Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, 12

Raico, Ralph, 103, 111, 118

Rand, Ayn, 10

Reason Magazine, 32n

remnant, the, 71

resources

directly controlled, 76

indirectly controlled, 76

restitution, 29

revisionist history, 102f, 104, 106

Richard Wagner Society, 103

rights theory as ‘verbal flatulence’, 10

rights

natural and inalienable, 10

natural vs. invented, 115

Robertson, Colin, 80

Rockwell, Lew, 101, 104, 111, 118

Rothbard phobia, 112

Rothbard, Joey, 103, 107

Rothbard, Murray N., 9f, 31n, 75, 99ff

as anarchist, 12

as isolationist, 12

academic humility of, 112

attitude to German culture of 103

career of at UNLV, 113ff

enemies made by, 12

hatred of, 117

intellectual intransigence, of, 115

personality of, 101f

prizes won by, 109

sacrifices made by, 107f

technologies used by in

1985, 101

ruling elites, 31

defunding of, 92

Runnin’ Rebels (UNLV basketball team), 113

Sailer, Steve, 78

scarcity as the source of conflict, 24

Schoeck, Helmut, 64

secession, 72

self-ownership, 15, 24, 58, 76

Smear Bund, The, 117

social authority, rival centers of, destruction of, 44

social change

Hayekian strategy for, 89

populist strategy for, 89

social degeneracy, 80

social justice warriors, 94

socialists, dealing with, 84

sociology and psychology, need for, 26, 79

Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), 79

Spencer, Richard, 78, 81f

State, the

democratic, 64

creation of, 62

incompatible with

private property, 110

need for, 33

role of in creating

inequality, 35

states acting as trustees for citizen taxpayers, 19

strong-man State, calls for, 52

Students for Liberty, 80

Tarkanian, Jerry, 113

taxpayers as victims, 86

Taylor, Jared, 78

Theodoracopulos, Taki, 82

Trump, Donald, 20, 78, 81

Ultimate Justification of the Private Property Ethic, The (Hoppe), 11n

University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV), 9, 112

Rothbard’s position at, 108

University of Saarland, 7

victim groups, advice for, 55f

voluntary exchange, 15, 25

wealth, political means of acquiring, 65

welfare for immigrants opposed, 19

welfare recipients, role of as supporters of the state, 67

western civilization, basis for, 88

what ‘victims’ owe their ‘victimizers’, 42f

white heterosexual Christian males, 17, 54, 88

as victimizers, 39

white privilege, 94

whiteness, role of, 89

why the worst get on top, 66

Yarvin, Curtis, 78