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Murray N. Rothbard
Legal System
2002

In Defense of Demagogues

Mises Daily

Author: Murray N. Rothbard

Online Publish Date: April 23, 2002

This short manuscript is dated 1954. It has never before been published. For many years now, demagogues have been in great disfavor. They are not sober, they are not respectable, they are not “gentlemen.” And yet there is a great and growing need for their services. What, exactly, have been the charges leveled against the demagogues? They are

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