How can Austrolibertarians reach the Left? Well, it depends which Left.
Political upheaval has hit Finland, and it’s merely a foreshadowing of bigger changes ahead.
As I’ve noted before, with the rise of IP abolitionism among libertarians, with IP defenders on the ropes, the Objectivists are trying to strike back. Rand’s defense of IP was incoherent, confused, and never complete (her brief argument assumed the US patent system is first to file, which is incorrect; and she had an incoherent admixture of utilitarianism and intuitionism in her tortured attempt to defend a finite, arbitrary term for patent and copyright).
Home prices peaked five years ago, but a mountain of foreclosures still looms.
On Monday, Standard and Poor’s (S&P) announced that although the US government would retain its AAA debt rating, the outlook for the United States’ future was being downgraded from “stable” to “negative.” The move is a welcome if tepid acknowledgement of the fiscal train wreck of which Austrians have been warning for years.
I use the term “liberal” without irony or contempt, for the liberal tradition in the true sense was devoted to freeing people from the shackles of the state.
