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Here we go again. I have been searching on the Mises forum, but I've been unable to find a thread concerning my question to Hoppe's argument. I have read chapter 7 of Hoppe's Eigentum, Anarchie und Staat along with The Economics and Ethics of Private Property , so I feel well-read. There...
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This argument is very, very often distorted, and misunderstood. I hope this introduction will help clear things up: http://argumentationethics.wordpress.com/2011/12/25/argumentation-ethics/ From it: Not bad! We have now shown that argumentation must presuppose each person owns its own body. The denial...
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There is a disturbing trend that I’ve come across lately and that is when, people of anarcho-capitalism persuasion drag down their fellow free-market libertarians and minarchists for not going 'all the way'. Now i personally would say that support the rights-based anarcho-capitalist ideal;...
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I know Ron Paul has mentioned support of this sort of proposal before, but I wasn't really able to find much else on this idea. Has there been any thought given to promotion of a "Private option" for government? That is, people voluntarily giving up their "protections" like police...
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Hoppe's monarchy>democracy becomes problematic when you include the fascist/communist dictators of the 20th century. Yeah, they did emerge from democracy but you cannot say Germany was democractic after Hitler rose to power. My guess is that he takes a historical viewpoint in his conception of...
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I Just read Hoppe's essay and I think I missed something. To me it sounded like it was against democracy and for monarchy. That seems a little contradictory to the idea of individual freedoms usually shown by libertarian/ austrian economics philosophys so I assume didn't understand something...
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[quote user="Sage"]What do you think is the most "ineptly defended" aspect of libertarianism? Personally, I would say NAP and homesteading.[/quote] It is the NAP that is poorly defended because libertarians commonly think they can "prove" it as a universal rule. They can...
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Link In this essay I examine the relationship between libertarianiam and conservatism, taking Block and Hoppe's views as a starting point for the analysis and then proposing that we redefine "conservative" as "one with a relatively low degree of time preference". All feedback...
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/podcast/?p=episode&name=2009-02-08_098_the_left_the_right_and_the_state.mp3
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The Exploitation of the Strong by the Weak "There is, of course, some truth in the statement that there's a difference between criminals and states. But the difference is actually one that makes states look even worse than plain criminals." So declared Professor Hans Hermann Hoppe, retired...