Bewildered white Liberals are wont to ask: “What do you people want?” Some newsmen recently asked virtually this same question of H. Rap Brown, fiery young leader of SNCC and the Black Power movement. Rap replied: “I want Lyndon Johnson to resign and go to Vietnam and fight — he and his family.” Particularly interesting were the varied reactions
The Congress of the United States, in its wisdom, has now moved to make a federal offense out of “desecrating the flag”. No doubt the great bulk of those who fought for, and voted for, this law, believe themselves to be devoted Christians and champions of the rights of private property. We shall prove that they are nothing of the kind. Volume 3,
The trouble with sectarians, whether they be libertarians, Marxists, or world-governmentalists, is that they tend to rest content with the root cause of any problem, and never bother themselves with the more detailed or proximate causes. The best, and almost ludicrous, example of blind, unintelligent sectarianism is the Socialist Labor Party, a
On August 25, 1968. less than a week after completing the final draft of the article which constitutes this issue of Left and Right , Harry Elmer Barnes died at the age of 79. Murray N. Rothbard recounts the life of Barnes and the legacy he will leave behind. Volume 4, Number 3 (1968) Rothbard, Murray N. “Harry Elmer Barnes, RIP.” Left and Right
A note to the subscribers of Left and Right informing them of the special 1968 Harry Barnes-Pearl Harbor double-length issue. Volume 4, Number 1 (1968)
The Free Market 18, no. 11 (November 2000) [Editorial Note: Recent protests in France over high gasoline taxes are not without historical precedent. Writes Justin Raimondo : The [g]ilet jaunes of today are the Poujadists of yesteryear. Read Rothbard on Poujade and the militantly antistatist roots and methods of the movement.” To understand this,
The Free Market 19, no. ( 2001) Editor’s Note: This piece, which Rothbard wrote in 1956, is published here for the first time. The problem of “payola”--money given by recording companies to radio stations as a quid pro quo for air time--is still in the news. Some companies have even banded together to call for federal regulation because “greed and
Volume 15, Number 4 (Winter 2012) Rothbard realizes that the economy is not competitive, that it is shot through with elements of monopoly. The left-wing Chamberlinians (which partially included Chamberlin himself) used this as a beautiful handle to combine with the Marxists and other critics of business to denounce the whole capitalist
[A selection from Power and Market .] By Murray N. Rothbard Laborers may also ask for geographical grants of oligopoly in the form of immigration restrictions . In the free market the inexorable trend is to equalize wage rates for the same value-productive work all over the earth. This trend is dependent on two modes of adjustment: businesses
Volume 11, Number 2 (Summer 1990) Murray N. Rothbard is interviewed on various economic concepts, Ludwig von Mises, and many of his articles and books.
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