Political Theory

Narrated by Matt Pritchard.

To conceal the fact that Marx invented his concept of ideology expressly to discredit the economists, he elevated it to the dignity of a general ep

"The true end of man — not that which capricious inclination prescribes for him, but that which is prescribed by eternally immutable reason — is the highest and most harmonious cultivation of his faculties into one whole. For this cultivation, freedom is the first and indispensible condition."

However one may turn the matter, one cannot discover any reason why an ideological distortion of truth should be more useful to the bourgeoisie than a correct theory.

Recorded at FreedomFest, 10 July 2010. Includes an introduction by Douglas E. French.

Recorded at FreedomFest, 10 July 2010. Includes an introduction by Douglas E. French.

As Barnes noted, there were a number of "middle-class writers" who took more or less this line, but "by far the most influential" of them "was the 17th-century English philosopher, John Locke. Many of his theories were taken up and popularized in America by Thomas Jefferson."

It is because the liberal elite believe that, without a massive government, the economy would collapse to zero.

This socialist or communist doctrine of “class struggle” fails entirely to take into account the essential difference between the condi

My main message is that most of our economic problems derive from previous government intervention in the economy.