Other Schools of Thought

"The commonly accepted theory that Fascism originated in the conspiracy of the great industrialists to capture the state will not hold. It originated on the Left."

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 28 July 2022.

Lucas Engelhardt summarizes the basics of MMT.

Good theory leads to better statistics and better predictions.

Socialism does not build, it destroys.

Socialism arose as an international working-class movement, but the nationalist has met more success: "Proletarians of all countries, don't come to my country and take my job away from me!"

In 1920, Ludwig von Mises destroyed the intellectual foundations of the case for socialist central planning.

In their aggressions against neighbors the Spanish and English established the policies to be applied to alien peoples through conquest or extermination. 

What we really have to combat is all statism, and not just the Communist brand.

One popular charge against anarchism is that it "means chaos." This is certainly debatable, and no anarchist ever deliberately wanted to bring about chaos.