A shocking revelation from Lew Rockwell today:
“Mr. Libertarian,” Murray N. Rothbard was called, and “The State’s Greatest Living Enemy.” He remains so.
"Austro" as in Rothbard and Wittgenstein, "Athenian" as in Aristotle and smashing-the-plutocracy.
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I’m Roderick T. Long, Professor of Philosophy at Auburn University. I’m an Aristotelean/Wittgensteinian in philosophy and a left-libertarian market anarchist in social theory. (More about me here.) This blog, Austro-Athenian Empire, is a continuation of my earlier blog, archived here.
Well, if we’re splitting hairs, the shocking revelation is really that a bunch of people who are talking about Rothbard haven’t been informed of his passing.
No, this doesn’t imply Murray is still alive. Note that Lew says he was called, not that he was, the state’s greatest living enemy. The phrase in quotes is best taken as a name. His second sentence should be read as elliptical for “He remains so named.”
Ah, but who still so names him?
I do.
You name him as “living” Ben?
Yes, Rothbard is living Ben.
This is a stimulating conversation. This one really gets the neurons firing.
I knew it! He is! Hah!