Political Theory

"The Randist analysis of the nature of crime implies the necessity for a minimal government."

"Let the banks perish. … Now is the time for the complete emancipation of trade from legislative thralldom."

It is Republicans, not libertarians, who favor handouts to and special privileges for big corporations. And Republicans are not libertarians.

And to wind up at my own doctrine about history, following Albert Jay Nock, history is essentially a race or a conflict between state power and social power.

It is very difficult to convince someone that if they refuse free money they will be better off.

It takes a lot of PhDs to convince the public that their systematic looting at the hands of politicians is actually for their own good.

"The idealist … sees the state as a neutral tool. If it can be used for the benefit of the rulers, it can be used for the benefit of the people, as if a slaughterhouse for the benefit of the farmer could be used for the benefit of the animals."

Pictures of the Socialistic Future warns that socialism, promising equality, can deliver only equal poverty and death.

"Sandel stands among the foremost communitarians and, as his previous work makes evident, he views the free market with disdain."

Nonetheless, by reflecting further on Etienne de La Boetie's key insight about the politics of authority, the will to bondage, and the eager embrace of voluntary servitude, and by devising an ingenious test for their influence on the ordinary individual, Stanley Milgram made an important contribution to the libertarian tradition.