Mill played a crucial, but inflated, role in liberalism. Rothbard did not like Mill much. Mill was a disaster on economic freedom and international issues. Mill rejected that workers and capitalists shared interests. Mill was anti-capitalist.
Utopian socialism was a term created by Marx and Lenin to denigrate the enemies of Marx and Lenin. Henri de Saint-Simon’s ideology of the industrial class, opposed to the idling class, inspired and influenced utopian socialism.
Ralph Raico covers classical liberalism’s growth, development and possible future. Liberalism arose in Europe entwined with Christianity. Why Europe? The East lacked the idea of freedom from the state and never established the legal system that could protect wealth. Europe had multiple, decentralized competing powers, not a universal empire.
In the face of overwhelming evidence of the prosperity of capitalism, Marxists were forced to rephrase their arguments from material provisions to quality of life. Robert Nozick, a brilliant philosopher of liberty, became a libertarian. Anarchy, State, and Utopia, his main book, dominates debate in political philosophy.
There was a natural law tradition from antiquity and the middle ages. Natural law is the oldest and most frequently used concept of political theory. Natural law is the principles that are to be established if justice were to prevail. Or, it is the scientific laws of man and his environment.
Roderick Long leads The Mises Circle: An Informal Discussion of Anarchy at Mises University 2004.
Presented as part of the Mises Institute’s Austrian Workshop series in Auburn, Alabama, on 29 July 2004.
Mark Thornton discusses the irrational fear of deflation at this Austrian Workshop seminar.
Presented as part of the Mises Institute’s Austrian Workshop seminar series on 22 June 2004 in Auburn, Alabama.
Presented as part of the Mises Institute’s Summer Seminar Series in Auburn, Alabama, on 31 May 2004.
Sponsored by the Mises Institute and held in Houston, Texas; September 22-23, 1995.
Presented as part of the Mises Institute’s Summer Seminar Series in Auburn, Alabama, on 31 May 2004.
