May 12, 2006 5:51 PM
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The libertarian creed, writes Murray Rothbard, emerged from the "classical liberal" movements of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in the Western world, specifically, from the English Revolution of the seventeenth century. This radical libertarian movement, even though only partially successful in its birthplace, Great Britain, was still able to usher in the Industrial Revolution there by freeing industry and production from the strangling restrictions of State control and urban government-supported guilds. For the classical liberal movement was, throughout the Western world, a mighty libertarian "revolution" against what we might call the Old Order
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I'm patiently awaiting for the audio book to be complete. I've listened to this section in audio already. Is mises.org going to release it on a weekly basis? or what?
I'm also excited about the 'speaking of liberty' audio book.
I love to read, but listening while jogging or doing boring daily routines is the best.
Published: May 12, 2006 7:01 PM
Yesterday it was called Old Order, today it's called New World Order. Either way, I'm not sure that the US can be changed within. I suspect that the next frontier of freedom, and the next generation of freedom is at sea. I think that after the dollar crashes and forces a return to gold (soon) and uncoerced finance (thanks to the internet), there will be a major resurgance of liberty and a window of opportunity to persue that next frontier of freedom.
Colonies at sea will force a radical departure from rules of government as we know it, because people and groups of people will be able to organize in ways that maximize liberty. In a land based community where mobility of the home is the exception, and all transport is on a finite number of government maintained roads - it is much easier to zone, regulate, and restrict the kinds of movements and business people can engage in.
So in the future, controll over finances will be freed, but controll over posession, property, and commerce won't. That will create pressure in itself to make the move to international waters. In addition manufacturing will start to move out of the factory into the home as "printers" get the ability to print up and replicate objects other than paper. As that happens it will make the sea based economy even more and more feasable.
Published: May 12, 2006 8:42 PM
I have read Murry Rothbard's works now for the past ten years and I am most appreciative of his historical insights. His clarity and attention to detail are a releaf for my seeking mind. Most "Liberals" are statists in camoflague. Most eager to coerice others into doing the "right thing". When I ask them why they reisit others coericing them into things, they say to me, "well it is just wrong!" But I say, you want to force others to do things your way; why does it make any difference whether you are doing the coerising or they are? "They are wrong!" is the only answer I get. I then attempt to get them to think more about their position of using coersion, by asking, so it isn't the use of force that bothers you, it is that "they" are using force on you? You want to use force on every one else, but you don't want "them" to use force on you? If, I understand your position right, you want to be the one doing the forcing and not the one being forced? If they have been following the logic, a rare event in my experience, then they admit that they "see" reality better than "they" do, so "they" are just wrong. Then, I can spring the trap and accuse them of being just like "them", willing to use force to get their way; and can then "curse both your houses"! As the Good Book says, "the wicked shall destroy the wicked" and this applies not just to the past times, but those of the present as well. I only hope to avoid being in the same place and time when these "two houses" go at each other with tooth and nail; my prayer is that they will completely distroy one another, so that there will not survive a single coerisionists on the face of the planet, if there is a planet left.
Published: May 12, 2006 9:31 PM
quincunx asks if LvMI will be podcasting new chapters on a weekly basis.
Yes, that's the plan.
A summer of the great Rothbard, read by the great Jeff Riggenbach.
Published: May 15, 2006 9:29 AM
That's good news. Are there any plans to make other von Mises-related books available on-site?
I notice that the Young Americans for Freedom website had 3 books by Mises himself (Liberalism, Socialism, & Bureaucracy) available for streaming, but the links no longer work.
I can't find mp3 or cd versions of these books anywhere on the web, and it would be wonderful if you could make them available, even if you had to charge a download fee.
Published: May 17, 2006 12:26 PM