Strategy

Jeff Deist recaps his recent talk, "Socialist Left vs. alt-Right: What it Means for Liberty," which generated plenty of comments from libertarians, progressives, and the alt-Right.

Libertarians should celebrate the death of the myth of democratic consensus.

Recorded at the Mises Circle in Houston, Texas, on 30 January 2016.

If such a second American Revolution should ever come to pass, Thomas Woods could even match his namesake Thomas Paine.

Konkin cripples libertarian effectiveness by creating moral problems where none exist: by indicting as nonlibertarian or nonmarket a whole slew of institutions necessary to the triumph of liberty: organization, hierarchy, wage work, granting of funds by libertarian millionaires, and a libertarian political party.

The existence of a libertarian majority among the American Revolutionaries and in 19th-century England demonstrates that the feat is not impossible.

The institution of the State is not normal or natural. We will pay for making this error. There are not different and unequal laws applying to masters and individuals. Once you accept, incorrectly, unilateral taxation and ultimate jurisdiction in the hands of the state you are stuck.

Murray Rothbard presented this speech in 1990 as the final lecture of the Mises University, in the days following the collapse of socialism.

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