Sumner is wrongly accused of being a "social Darwinist." Indeed, there is considerable evidence that the entire concept of "social Darwinism" as we know it today was virtually invented decades after Sumner's death.
Son las ideas las que determinan lo que la gente considera sus intereses. Los hombres libres no actúan de acuerdo con sus intereses. Actúan de acuerdo con lo que creen que fomenta sus intereses.
It is ideas that determine what people consider as their interests. Free men do not act in accordance with their interests. They act in accordance with what they believe furthers their interests.
Es teóricamente concebible pero poco probable que la clase dominante se apresure a adoptar una filosofía y una economía política que acaben con su poder y los pongan, en efecto, fuera de juego.
It is theoretically conceivable but scarcely likely that the ruling class will rush to embrace a philosophy and a political economy that will end their power and put them, in effect, out of business.
Spencer advirtió de la esclavitud que se avecinaba en 1884, y George Orwell, en nuestra época, ha predicho que la plena consumación de esta esclavitud se alcanzará en 1984, exactamente un siglo después.
Spencer was warning of the coming slavery in 1884, and George Orwell, in our time, has predicted that the full consummation of this slavery will be reached in 1984, exactly one century later.
Murray Rothbard details the forgotten history of radical individualist thought in the US. Colonial America did not set out deliberately to be the land of the free.
