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Roderick Long | Rothbard’s “Left and Right”: 40 Years Later

Roderick T. Long presents the ‘Murray N. Rothbard Memorial Lecture’ at the 2006 Austrian Scholars Conference. The ASC is the international, interdisciplinary meeting of the Austrian School, and is for scholars interested or working in this intellectual tradition. Held at the Mises Institute, Auburn, Alabama, March 16-18, 2006.

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Roderick Long | “Capitalism” and “Socialism” are Anti-Concepts

No copyright intended. Roderick T. Long illustrates the problem of left-conflationism and right-conflationism, which undermines the libertarian movement and makes people think free(d) market classical liberalism/libertarianism is an extremist stance.

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Roderick Long | How to Reach the Left

Presented by Roderick Long at the Mises Circle in Chicago: “Strategies for Changing Minds Toward Liberty,” on 9 April 2011. Sponsored by Dr. Don Stacy.

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Kevin Carson | AUSTRIAN & MARXIST THEORIES OF MONOPOLY-CAPITAL: A MUTUALIST SYNTHESIS

  AUSTRIAN & MARXIST THEORIES OF MONOPOLY-CAPITAL: A MUTUALIST SYNTHESIS   In this very interesting phamplet Kevin A. Carson gives more evidence that Government Interventionism is the problem, and, not the solution. He goes over most every issue you can think of, and, goes back to first cause possiblities. From there he details what the [...]

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Kevin Carson | Libertarian Property and Privatization: An Alternative Paradigm

Carlton Hobbs recently challenged the tendency of mainstream libertarians, free marketers and anarcho-capitalists to favor the capitalist corporation as the primary model of ownership and economic activity, and to assume that any future free market society will be organized on the pattern of corporate capitalism. As one alternative to such forms of organization, Hobbs proposed [...]

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Kevin Carson | HOROWITZ, CHOMSKY, AND THE NEOCONSERVATIVE IDEOLOGY

Noam Chomsky is one of the latest on the Left to fall under David Horowitz’s guns. Horowitz’s “The Sick Mind of Noam Chomsky” appeared last fall, in two parts, in FrontPage Magazine. In a lot of ways, Chomsky deserves it. He has plenty of weaknesses and failings that Horowitz could have exploited mercilessly, had he [...]

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Kevin Carson | Studies in Mutualist Political Economy

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Kevin Carson | Organization Theory: A Libertarian Perspective

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Gabriel Kolko – The Triumph Of Conservatism

A must read, and, very well researched book on the role of certain economic sectors in using the intrusive Big Government to stop competition. It also gives detailed bashings to Marxism as well, and, is one of the best defenses of free(d) market liberalism/libertarianism.

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Murray N. Rothbard | Malthus and the Assault on Population

    [Excerpted from An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, vol. 1, Economic Thought Before Adam Smith (1995). An MP3 audio file of this article, read by Jeff Riggenbach, is available for download.]   One of the first Smithian economists, and, indeed, a man who was for two decades the only professor [...]

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