LeFevre’s Journal Spring 1978

07/22/2009 LeFevre's Journal Robert LeFevre

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Defending Dixie: A Defender of the South

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Dr. David Gordon, in today’s Friday Philosophy, reviews Clyde N. Wilson’s, Defending Dixie: Essays in Southern History and Culture. In these essays, Professor Wilson defends secession and the Southern cause.

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Understanding Resentment against Capitalism

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One of the great ironies of anti-capitalist resentment is that the envy and contempt results from a fundamental misunderstanding of the difference between liberty and statism.

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Robert LeFevre

Robert LeFevre (1911–1986) ran the Freedom School and Rampart College, founded in 1957. He had a legendary impact on a...

The Nature of Man and His Government

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Here is Robert LeFevre’s classic argument for a purely free society, the essay that made him a leading, if controversial, spokesman for the libertarian position on government and society.

Ownership of Land

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To maximize human well-being and to minimize disputes, private ownership and management of land and all appurtenances to land should be encouraged. Further, the land should be untaxed. The owner should own totally, once all encumbrances have been removed.

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