Hoppe has explained how Marx was “essentially correct” in his theory of history and class analysis. His main mistake was his understanding of exploitation, which was based on a flawed understanding of the labor theory of value. As Hoppe argues, drawing on Rothbardian libertarian and Austrian insights, the only meaningful exploitation is aggression against private […]
Some of my comments on a thread on facebook: [update: see KOL004 | Interview with Walter Block on Voluntary Slavery and Inalienability; Slavery, Inalienability, Economics, and Ethics; Slavery, Inalienability, Economics, and Ethics] Jeremiah Dyke Making moves! In design phase for a math product and hat idea. Found my manufactures! Discussing details. Also working on a […]
A mainstream friend of mine living in Hong Kong asked me a question about the libertarian perspective on antitrust law (what Europeans ungrammatically call “competition law,” just as they quaintly and awkwardly refer to corporate law as “company law”). He noted that there is a libertarian think-tank in Hong Kong that is vehemently opposed to […]
From my recent TLS post: Corporate Personhood, Limited Liability, and Double Taxation, LibertarianStandard.com (Oct. 18, 2011). Also cross-posted at Mises; archived comments below. Corporate Personhood, Limited Liability, and Double Taxation by Stephan Kinsella on October 18, 2011 @ 2:56 pm · 0 comments in Anti-Statism, Business, Corporatism, Libertarian Theory The politics of the left-oriented Occupy Wall […]
Ah, this movement of ours. Full of conspiracy nuts, layabouts, dope heads, gun nuts, anti-evolutionists, survivalists, weird diet obsessives, adherents of homeopathy and contrarian health views and fads, “unschoolers,” self-destructive losers, doom ‘n gloomers, activists who get worked up about electoral politics every four years… Ah, me. I was reminded of this when I stumbled […]
The relation between the non-aggression principle and property rights: a response to Division by Zer0, Mises Blog (Oct. 4, 2011) (archived comments below) There was an interesting exchange recently between a left-libertarian (I think that’s what he is) who goes by Divide by Zer0, and anarcho-libertarian Stefan Molyneaux. “dbzer0″ argued against property rights and the […]
One problem with minarchism is that it makes it difficult to find a principled opposition to various state policies and actions that violate individual rights. And just as controls breed controls,1 one compromise leads to another. Ayn Rand, for example, maintained that the subpoena power was legitimate–that state courts could legitimately compel people to show […]
In a 2004 LRC post, How Stupid are Europeans?, I noted that unless an explicit right to secede or exit from the then-proposed European Constitution were added, any countries joining would likely be prevented by force from leaving later. Happily, the EU Constitution was never finally ratified, due to the heroic stubbornness of French and […]
This weekend I came across an old journal I kept as a boy, when I was 8 to 10 years old, and was reading its goofy entries to my own 8 year old, to his delight. I came across an entry from November, 1975, when I was 10, and it strikes me now that it […]
Interesting. The Cherokee “Nation” actually plays at government and courts. It’s a bit sickening to see them apeing the pomp and practice of their overlords. (See recent decisions here; including a recent decision controversially revoking the citizenship rights of black slave descendants (MSNBC).) Reminds a bit of the UN “courts,” like the UN’s ICJ, the […]
