Free Markets

Mr. Chodorov sees history as an eternal struggle between social-power and political-power philosophies.

"Free men operating in a free market do find solutions to even the largest crises."

Arriving at those goals is not exactly doable unless government robs Peter to pay Paul and/or starts up the printing press.

It is the way of individual liberty, of the free market, of private property, of government limited to securing these rights equally for all.

Even America's poorest people nowadays can afford automobiles, cell phones, and TVs. Yet a significant number of social critics wish they couldn't.

"[I]f the glorious public sector, if expanded government, has brought us to this pretty pass, perhaps the answer is to roll government back, to return to the truly revolutionary path of dismantling the Big State."

Rothbard has succeeded in sustaining what remains of the postmeltdown high-tech and information sectors, albeit in India and China.

The appropriate policy is not to strengthen labor standards but to open borders and allow people to cross them freely.

Presented to the Auburn University Libertarians; September 21, 2009.

In the literature of the American Revolution there is no demagogic attempt to set human rights against property rights.