Lecture series · recorded 2007
Despots Left and Right: The Tyrannies of Our Times
Despots Left and Right: The Tyrannies of Our Times is a free lecture series (2 recordings, 1.1 hours) you can stream or download at freecapitalists.org, with 2 speakers.
Whoever has power abuses it. It seems that ideology works only as a cover, such that the right is as likely as the left to fasten control over our lives and property, if only in different ways and with different excuses.14 April 2007, Houston, TX.
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Cover painting: Molotov signs the Nazi-Soviet pact as Ribbentrop leans in and Stalin watches, Kremlin, 24 August 1939. See every painting in the art gallery.
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Consenting Capitalist Acts: The Tyranny of the Left 2007
Recorded at the Mises Circle in Houston, “Despots Left and Right: The Tyrannies of Our Times,” Saturday, 14 April 2007, sponsored by Jeremy S. Davis.
Philosophy and MethodologyPolitical TheoryFree Markets
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The Cultural Cloak of the Coercive State 2007
Recorded at the Mises Circle in Houston, “Despots Left and Right: The Tyrannies of Our Times,” Saturday, 14 April 2007, sponsored by Jeremy S. Davis.
Philosophy and MethodologyPolitical TheoryBig GovernmentMedia and Culture
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Recording dates, summaries and topics for 2 of these 2 lectures come from the Mises Institute's page for Despots Left and Right: The Tyrannies of Our Times, checked 2026-09-27.
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- 2 recordings, 1.1 hours in total.
- Who lectures in Despots Left and Right: The Tyrannies of Our Times?
- Jörg Guido Hülsmann and Walter Block.
- When was Despots Left and Right: The Tyrannies of Our Times recorded?
- 2007, per the recording dates recovered for this series.
- Is there a transcript of Despots Left and Right: The Tyrannies of Our Times?
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