 24 Apr 2007 @ 17:37, by Unknown
"I don't think that the crucial difference is that we're smart and the others are dumb; after all, if we may let this secret out to the world, we're not all that smart! We are a glorious movement to be sure, but we have hardly achieved perfection. The difference between us and the Democrats and Republicans is not that we are so much smarter than they are, but that we are deeply concerned with ideas, with principles, whereas they are simply concerned with getting their places at the public trough. We are interested in principles, they in power; and, gloriously enough, our principle is that their power be dismantled."
---Murray N. Rothbard
anarcho-capitalism has recently had the greatest impact in the United
States, where the Libertarian Party has taken it up as the house ideology, and where Republicans like Ronald Reagan wanted to be remembered for cutting taxation and for getting "the government off peoples' backs".
The first well-known version of anarcho-capitalism was developed by Austrian School economist and libertarian Murray N. Rothbard (1926-1995) in the mid-twentieth century.
Edited with an introduction by Lewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr., and touring the work of Rothbard, the essays presented in this volume combine "libertarian anti-government economics, decentralist local patriotism, anti-war isolation, and a dissident/reactionary cultural outlook that saw the growth of government as the key to the loss of the Old Republic. Rothbard defended land-rights groups against environmentalists, citizen militias against gun grabbers, isolationists against imperialists, paleoconservatives against neoconservatives, populists against party regulars, anti-New World Order conspiracy theorists against the establishment, nationalists against internationalist planners, states righters against libertarian centralists, the Christian right against its own leadership, and much more."
Rothbard writes here from an unambiguously new right-wing perspective, his essays address political strategy, war, nationalism, culture, feminism, and much more.
They include:
* A Strategy for the Right
* The Religious Right: Toward a Coalition
* A New Strategy for Liberty
* Right-Wing Populism
* Pat Buchanan and the Menace of Anti-Anti-Semitism
* Working Our Way Back to the President
* Gang-Stabbing the President: What, Who, and Why
* The "Watershed" Election
* Education: Rethinking "Choice"
* The New York Political Circus
* Big-Government Libertarians
* Stop NAFTA!
* Why the Pro-NAFTA Hysteria?
* Mr. Bush's War
* U.S., Keep Out of Bosnia!
* The New York Times, Communism, and South Africa
* On Resisting Evil
* Guilt Sanctified
* "Tolerance," or Manners?
* Behind Waco
* America's Most Persecuted Minority
* Hunting the Christian Right
* The Menace of the Religious Left
* Saint Hillary and the Religious Left
* Kulturdampf!
* Liberal Hysteria: The Mystery Explained
* King Kristol
* The Women/Ladies/Girls/Spoiled Brats of Mills
* The Kennedy "Rape" Case
* Marshall, Civil Rights, and the Court
* Their Malcolm... And Mine
* The Clintonians: "Looking Like America"
* Is Clinton a Bastard?
* Clintonian Ugly
* Those Awards
* PC Cinema: Psychobabble Gets Nasty
* The Oscars
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