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They said that Hayek was the founder of Austrianism...
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Albert Jay Nock and H.L. Mencken were both anarchists.
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I haven't read those books, but yes, they will be promoting anarcho-capitalism. If you want a book about limited government libertarianism (usually referred to here as minarchism, although I personally prefer the term classical liberalism), then I recommend Ludwig von Mises' "Liberalism: The Classical Tradition". Friedrich von Hayek's
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[quote user="Niccolò"] [quote user="Jared"] If the law says to pay taxes, and somebody breaks the law, they are not innocent of breaking the law. Would I have the right? No, as president I would have the obligation to enforce law. What are the libertarian ideals, exactly, which contradict presidents performing their paid functions
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"...how does this group justify themselves having power? Do they have special rights?" Governments are ELECTED. It's not a difficult concept to grasp. If you have a problem with democracy, then please feel free to go into more detail. "Secondly, what's wrong with hiring your own security?" Nothing. You are free to do so even
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Isolationism and non-interventionism are not the same thing. Isolationism combines a non-interventionist foreign policy with economic protectionism, whereas non-interventionism refers to a foreign policy opposing war and "entangling alliances", as George Washington put it. "Conservative" is just a word, and anyone is welcome to it
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QDv4sYwjO0
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I've posted a few times on here before, but I thought I'd better formally introduce myself. I'm a teenager who became interested in politics and economics essentially because the British New Labour government has done such a terrible job. Being from an upper-middle-class, slightly guilty for being well-off British-Irish family, I always
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Objectivism: A philosophy covering ethics, politics, metaphysics, epistemology, and aesthetics. Its ethics are rational egoism. It supports a minimal, or "night-watchman", state. It supports state monopolies on money, the legitimate use of force i.e. the police, the military, and intelligence-gathering agencies, land, and legal systems. It
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Hello all, It's my eighteenth birthday coming up in a few weeks, and I was wondering whether or not it would be worth buying Ludwig von Mises' Human Action . I'm pretty new to economics, having only really read some Hayek and Rothbard as far as Austrian School economists go, so I'm wondering if I should start with something simpler or