In April 1845, Karl Marx’s mother-in-law sent to the Marx family a nanny named Helene Demuth , known as “Lenchen.” Marx’s long-suffering wife, Jenny, was thrilled. After all, she had long expressed the wish that Karl would “earn some capital rather than just writing about capital.” But Karl refused to earn money. Just as he refused soap and
This October-November 2017 marks the 100 th anniversary of the launch of the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia — the bloody communist state that would produce a political-ideological killing spree unlike any the world has ever seen. And yet, communism continues to find supporters. Here are three personal anecdotes: I did a conference this past week
Este octubre-noviembre de 2017 se produce el 100º aniversario del inicio de la Revolución Bolchevique en Rusia: el sangriento estado comunista que produciría una ola de asesinatos político-ideológicos sin parangón con nada que hubiera visto nunca el mundo. Y aun así, el comunismo sigue encontrando seguidores. He aquí tres anécdotas personales: La
What is the Mises Institute?
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.