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The Rothbardian Way

- Lew Rockwell -

Mark Twain once consented to critique the writings of a young man and said this: "Sir, your work is both good and original. However, the good part is not original and the original is not good."

And that sums up the work of Murray Rothbard. His ideas are not original, nor are they good/valid/workable. The idea of the state, any state, having no authority over an individual was articulated long before Rothbard by the American Lysander Spooner (THE CONSTITUTION OF NO AUTHORITY) and the German Max Stirner (THE EGO AND ITS OWN).

To say that Rothbard's ideas are not good, is to say they are not only unworkable but highly destructive to individual life. There is no room here to offer a philsophical refutation but only to observe that, once allowing the logic of secession from government authority by whim, one must then allow for NO authority whatsoever. This leaves anarchy as the result -- everyman against his fellow with no objective authority or law to settle disputes or rally support for the common defense. This is not to say, as Thomas Jefferson believed, that individuals may not revolt against a tyrannical state -- but only to create a state where individual rights are defended by that state and whose powers are limited to that goal.

That Rothbard's ideas are popular is not in question: many have been seduced, the most notable and vocal being Ron Paul. Yet popularity or influence is no criteria of merit -- think Marx (DAS KAPITAL) or Hitler (MEIN KAMPF).

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Beginning of the headline :There are many varieties of libertarianism alive in the world today, but Rothbardianism remains the center of its intellectual gravity, its primary muse and conscience, its strategic and moral core, and the focal point of debate even when its name is not acknowledged. The reason is that Murray Rothbard was the creator of modern libertarianism, a political-ideological system that proposes a once-and-for-all escape from the trappings of left and right and their central plans for how state power should be used. Libertarianism is the radical alternative that says state power is unworkable and immoral... Read More

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