Philosophy and Methodology

Marx and Engels, two men of unquestionable bourgeois background, hatched the class ideology of the proletarian class.

Hence, one is forced to conclude that the libertarian ethic not only can be justified and justified by means of a priori reasoning, but that no alternative ethic can be defended argumentatively.

It is good luck for the laborer if market conditions are such that a kind of work he is able to perform is lavishly remunerated; it is chance, not

To conceal the fact that Marx invented his concept of ideology expressly to discredit the economists, he elevated it to the dignity of a general ep

Recorded at FreedomFest, 10 July 2010. Includes an introduction by Douglas E. French.

Aristotle concedes too much to those who discriminate in favor of the purely intellectual, and he tends to denigrate the practical life.

Indeed, deplorable conditions existed, but one must not blame the factory owners, who did all they could to eradicate them.

Free trade and free markets, through the harmony of reciprocal benefits, advance the interest and happiness of all by each seeking his own personal

My main message is that most of our economic problems derive from previous government intervention in the economy.

This socialist or communist doctrine of “class struggle” fails entirely to take into account the essential difference between the condi