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Left, Right, and the Prospects for Liberty

Left, Right, and the Prospects for Liberty is a free lecture series (1 recordings, 1.3 hours) you can stream or download at freecapitalists.org, with Murray N. Rothbard.

Rothbard's essay Left, Right, and the Prospects for Liberty, read in full. It traces liberal, conservative and socialist ideology from the eighteenth century through the New Deal and Cold War, and argues libertarians should drop their alliance with conservatism for long-run revolutionary optimism.

Read the book: Left, Right, and the Prospects for Liberty by Murray N. Rothbard, free to download here.

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  1. 01

    Left, Right, and the Prospects for Liberty

    Murray N. Rothbard · 1:15:24 · 17.3 MB

    Rothbard argues libertarians misplace themselves on the spectrum by allying with conservatism. He traces how liberalism decayed into passive utilitarianism, how left socialism split into libertarian and statist strands feeding fascism and the New Deal, and urges libertarians to replace pessimism with long-run optimism.

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Is Left, Right, and the Prospects for Liberty free to listen to?
Yes. All 1 mirrored recording stream in the browser or download as audio, at no cost and with no signup.
How long is Left, Right, and the Prospects for Liberty?
1 recording, 1.3 hours in total.
Is the book behind Left, Right, and the Prospects for Liberty available here?
Yes. Left, Right, and the Prospects for Liberty by Murray N. Rothbard is in this archive as a free download, on its own page.
Is there a transcript of Left, Right, and the Prospects for Liberty?
Yes. Every lecture in the series has one, 8,889 words in total, free to read on each lecture's page and searchable in the browser.

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