Libertarianism in Ancient China

Tags: Political Theory, Legal System, World History

12/23/2009 Murray N. Rothbard

To the individualist Lao Tzu, government, with its “laws and regulations more numerous than the hairs of an ox,” was a vicious oppressor of the individual, and “more to be feared than fierce tigers.”

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