Reddit’s a total shithole now. Freedom of speech? Forget it - threads get strangled the second someone says something real. Proper debate dies on arrival. And if these gutless censors are the voice of the US Dem Party, then the party is a fiction. It's merely a cabal of craven, criticism-phobic authoritarians, hiding their fear behind a facade of progress. Where's the liberalism? Ah, but it's spam. The perfect, cowardly alibi.
#Rothbard
"Chuang Tzu wrote, ‘The common people have a constant nature; they spin and are clothed, till and are fed... it is what may be called their “natural freedom”’. These people of natural freedom were born and died themselves, suffered from no restrictions or restraints, and were neither quarrelsome nor disorderly. If rulers were to establish rites and laws to govern the people, ‘it would indeed be no different from stretching the short legs of the duck and trimming off the long legs of the heron’ or ‘haltering a horse’. Such rules would not only be of no benefit, but would work great harm. In short, Chuang Tzu concluded, the world ‘does simply not need governing; in fact it should not be governed’." — Murray N. Rothbard.
#chuangtzu #rothbard #aphet #economics #history #naturallaw
"‘Mercantilism’ is the name given by late nineteenth century historians to the politico-economic system of the absolute state from approximately the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. Mercantilism has been called by various historians or observers a ‘system of Power or State-building’ (Eli Heckscher), a system of systematic state privilege, particularly in restricting imports or subsidizing exports (Adam Smith), or a faulty set of economic theories, including protectionism and the alleged necessity for piling up bullion in a country. In fact, mercantilism was all of these things; it was a comprehensive system of statebuilding, state privilege, and what might be called ‘state monopoly capitalism’.", - Murray N.Rothbard.
#rothbard #aphet #statism #history #economics #mercantilism #capitalism
"Lao Tzu, after referring to the common experience of mankind, came to his penetrating conclusion: ‘The more artificial taboos and restrictions there are in the world, the more the people are impoverished... The more that laws and regulations are given prominence, the more thieves and robbers there will be’." — Murray N.Rothbard.
#rothbard #laotzu #statism #aphet #austrianeconomics
Read #Mises and #Rothbard about #economy and #economics, folks! Their #books are free!
This is not socialism, but (economic) #interventionism, #statism. Read #Mises, #Rothbard on this.
Hayek was a good thinker and a freedom fighter. But I prefer #Mises and #Rothbard. They both left us two brilliant economic treatises: "Human Action" and "Man, Economy, and State with Power and the Market."
https://mises.org/library/book/human-action
https://mises.org/library/book/man-economy-and-state-power-and-market
#economics #politics #capitalism #socialism #statism #history
"Union strikes and restrictions. Unions have become a nuisance with power to cripple the economy, but only as a result of numerous special privileges afforded by the government; especially various immunities accorded unions, particularly the Wagner Act of 1935, still in effect, which compels employers to bargain with unions which gain a majority vote of a “bargaining unit” arbitrarily defined by the government itself."
https://mises.org/online-book/new-liberty-libertarian-manifesto
#unions #statism #capitalism #unionstrong #economics #humanrights #politics #rothbard #government
You are wrong, MMT is wrong. Read #Rothbard on money.
Read books by #Rothbard to learn about money, folks! The books are free and avalable in popular file standards!
https://mises.org/library/book/what-has-government-done-our-money
"Government control inevitably follows government privilege, and, as in the Fascist or Communist countries, privileged unionism has become in effect a powerful arm of the State apparatus for controlling the labor force and the economic system as a whole. Rather than representing their members, union leaders have been coopted into the power elite, there to serve as transmission belts for keeping the workers under the control of the various governmental “guidelines”" — Murray N. Rothbard, Left and Right.
#economics #rothbard #workers #capitalism #unions
About UBI: "But there is an extremely important catch: the costs are estimated on the assumption that everyone — the people on the universal dole as well as those financing it — will continue to work to the same extent as before. But this assumption begs the question. For the chief problem is the enormously crippling disincentive effect the guaranteed annual income will have on taxpayer and recipient alike."
https://mises.org/online-book/new-liberty-libertarian-manifesto/chapter-8-welfare-and-welfare-state/negative-income-tax
#ubi #rothbard #economics #capitalism
I think you understand perfectly well that your objections are very weak. Yes, philosophers knew that there are ends and means, but no one except #Mises (and #Rothbard!) was able to build a complete (and correct!) theory of human action, praxeology and its main part - #economics.
"The present work (#mespm) deduces the entire corpus of economics from a few simple and apodictically true axioms: the Fundamental Axiom of action—that men employ means to achieve ends, and two subsidiary postulates: that there is a variety of human and natural resources, and that leisure is a consumers’ good."
#economics #rothbard #austrianeconomics #capitalism #science
"We must realize that from the point of view of justice or of economic prosperity, the less people are taxed, the better. That is why we should rejoice at every new loophole, new credit, new manifestation of the “underground” economy.… Every economic activity that escapes taxes and controls is not only a blow for freedom and property rights; it is also one more instance of a free flow of productive energy getting out from under parasitic repression." — Murray N. Rothbard, Economic Controversies.
#economics #rothbard #taxation #statism #capitalism #education
"Logically, the infant industry argument must be applied to interlocal and interregional trade as well as international. Failure to realize this is one of the reasons for the persistence of the argument. Logically extended, in fact, the argument would have to imply that it is impossible for any new firm to exist and grow against the competition of older firms, wherever their locations." — Murray N. Rothbard, Man, Economy, and State with Power and Market.
#economics #rothbard #tariffs #statism #capitalism #education
"One of the main reasons for the popularity of Karl Marx and John Maynard Keynes among intellectuals was precisely the staggering obscurity of their prose; only when a writer is obscure can a cult of followers gather around to serve as the semi-official interpreters and exegetes of the Master." — Murray N. Rothbard, Libertarian Forum.
#economics #rothbard #keynes #statism #capitalism #education #marx
"… Lord Keynes’s economics have proved to be the economics par excellence of the corporate liberal State. For Keynesian economists place equal approval upon all forms of government spending, whether on pyramids, missiles, or steel plants; by definition all of these expenditures swell the gross national product, regardless of how wasteful they may be." — Murray N. Rothbard, For a New Liberty.
#economics #rothbard #keynes #statism #capitalism #education
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