Practicing Politics as Self-Defense

Tags: Antipolitics, Big Government, Strategy

09/26/2022 Will Blakely

Because government is predatory, it may seem ironic then to use the political system as a means of protecting one’s own property, family, and loved ones. But there are times when such a strategy makes sense.

Original Article: “Practicing Politics as Self-Defense”

This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher Condon.

The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard.

Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property order. We believe that our foundational ideas are of permanent value, and oppose all efforts at compromise, sellout, and amalgamation of these ideas with fashionable political, cultural, and social doctrines inimical to their spirit.