https://youtu.be/nohK6D99wVc In a socialist state, the government has arrogated to itself virtually all property and power of the country. Murray N. Rothbard Economic Controversies, p. 446 LBRY / Odysee:...
by Keith Knight | May 12, 2021 | Don't Tread on Anyone
https://youtu.be/nohK6D99wVc In a socialist state, the government has arrogated to itself virtually all property and power of the country. Murray N. Rothbard Economic Controversies, p. 446 LBRY / Odysee:...
by Keith Knight | May 10, 2021 | Don't Tread on Anyone
https://youtu.be/ljpRZH4Z_4A To make their rule permanent, the State rulers need to induce their subject masses to acquiesce in at least the legitimacy of their rule. For this purpose the State has always taken a corps of intellectuals to spin apologia for the wisdom...
by Keith Knight | May 8, 2021 | Don't Tread on Anyone
https://youtu.be/SLN1_BZYCog Every man can enjoy the right of self-ownership, without special coercion upon anyone. But in the case of a “right” to schooling, this can only be provided if other people are coerced into fulfilling it. Th e “right” to schooling, to a...
by Keith Knight | May 4, 2021 | Don't Tread on Anyone
https://youtu.be/Vias-IE6COs ... economic theories cannot be “tested” by historical or statistical fact. These historical facts are complex and cannot, like the controlled and isolable physical facts of the scientific laboratory, be used to test theory. Murray...
by Keith Knight | May 2, 2021 | Don't Tread on Anyone
https://youtu.be/RldpvhquEyM In politics, whenever I hear the word “unity,” to paraphrase the famous words of a German politico of the 1930’s, “I reach for my revolver.” For almost always, “unity” is a scam, a call to abandon principle and follow the leader into some...
by Keith Knight | Apr 30, 2021 | Don't Tread on Anyone
https://youtu.be/9PXByawnBuM Lacking the direct test of success or failure, the voter tends to turn, not to those politicians whose policies have the best chance of success, but to those who can best “sell” their propaganda ability. Without grasping logical chains of...
by Keith Knight | Apr 27, 2021 | Don't Tread on Anyone
https://youtu.be/uMLA1uLwIDo ... the natural lot of mankind, at least since our expulsion from Eden, is mass starvation — starvation that can only be overcome by steady hard work, by productive capital investment, and by creating the conditions and social institutions...
by Keith Knight | Apr 26, 2021 | Don't Tread on Anyone
https://youtu.be/Rv4r7EW5hxc Government is the very negation of charity, for charity is uniquely an unbought gift , a freely fl owing uncoerced act by the giver. Murray N. Rothbard Man, Economy, and State with Power and Market, p. 1228 Isabella Riley on Twitter:...