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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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Left, Right, and the Prospects for Liberty
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?
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- 1 recording, 1.3 hours in total.
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- 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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