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Lecture given at “The Bankruptcy of American Politics” conference, sponsored by the Mises Institute and held in Newport Beach, California; January 24–25, 1997.

Transcription and ebook by David Ebooks. Minor edits were made to the speech to enhance readability.

Digital edition by the Ludwig von Mises Institute 2013

eISBN: 978-1-61016-620-1

Table of Contents

What Must Be Done

Society and Cooperation

Protection and the State

The Impossibility of Limited Government

Monarchy vs. Democracy

Current Conditions

Strategy: Stopping the Statist Disease

Top-Down Reform: Converting the King

The Disappearance of Natural Elites

The Role of Intellectuals

A Bottom-Up Revolution

What Must Be Done

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