Shawn Wilbur has some interesting remarks on the benefits and hazards of the possession/property distinction. In related news, Demonic Possession would be a great name for an anti-Proudhonian screed.
This painting, Quiller Orchardson’s 1882 Voltaire (which I saw in Edinburgh’s National Gallery on my 2006 trip), is one of my favourites; but I wouldn’t blame you for wondering why, for this rather indistinct print – the best one I could find online – scarcely does it justice. (Click to see it slightly larger.) The [...]
My comments for the upcoming Molinari Society session in New York this coming week are now online. I can’t remember if I ever posted that paper on Nozick and class conflict that I presented at the last Alabama Philosophical Society meeting, but if not, that’s online too.
The very first Nobel Peace Prize was given to a libertarian economist and peace activist. A few years later, they started giving it to mass murderers. The latter tradition seems to be the one they’ve chosen to continue.
Or, if you prefer: Daoists! Dominicans! Donisthorpe! Rothbard’s fascinating Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, which weighs in at over a thousand pages and still, ironically, never gets as far as the Austrians themselves (Rothbard died before completing it), is now available online from Mises.org in two honkin’ enormous PDF files: Volume One [...]
[cross-posted at Liberty & Power] I’ve just posted an 1842 work by English individualist anarchist Thomas Hodgskin titled Peace, Law, and Order; Hodgskin objects to the common conjoining of these three terms, on the grounds that law is the greatest threat to peace and order, not their guarantor. I’ve also finished posting American mutualist Dyer [...]
[cross-posted at Liberty & Power] Gustave de Molinari, pioneer of market anarchism, gets a couple of mentions in The Economist; see the Molinari Institute news page for details.
[cross-posted at Liberty & Power] In 1849, France’s leading spokesman for libertarian “capitalism” (Frédéric Bastiat) and France’s leading spokesman for libertarian “socialism” (Pierre-Joseph Proudhon) exchanged a series of public letters debating the nature and legitimacy of charging interest on loans. In 1879, American individualist anarchist Benjamin Tucker translated most of the letters, which were then [...]
Happy Birthday to three great anarchists: Murray Rothbard (yesterday), and William Godwin and Gustave de Molinari (today)!
[cross-posted at Liberty & Power] Only two of Molinari’s books have been translated into English – The Society of Tomorrow (badly – the translation is quite incompetent) and Religion (incompletely – the editor explains that “it was found necessary to omit the recapitulatory chapter which commences M. de Molinari’s additional matter, and to indicate in [...]
The Empirical Me
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.
Recent Comments