Rothbard on Self-Defense and War

Tags: Philosophy and Methodology, Private Property, War and Foreign Policy

10/14/2014 David Gordon

Libertarians — and Murray Rothbard in particular — are not pacifists, but reject the killing of innocents and other unjustified forms of military aggression, writes David Gordon.

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