Vices Are Not Crimes

Tags: Philosophy and Methodology, Political Theory, Biographies, Free Markets

07/16/2012 Murray N. Rothbard

Spooner’s anarchism was, like his abolitionism, another valuable part of his pietist legacy. For, here again, his pietistic concern for universal principles brought him to a consistent and courageous application of libertarian principles, writes Murray N. Rothbard (1926–1995).

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