The Libertarian Litmus Test. Stephan Kinsella & Keith Knight

by | Feb 3, 2021

… certain features are broadly alike in all visions of communism. Private property is eliminated, individualism goes by the board,
individuality is flattened, all property is owned and controlled communally, and the individual units of the new collective organism are in some vague way equal to one another.

 

Murray N. Rothbard

Classical Economics, p. 318

Stephan Kinsella is a practicing patent attorney, a libertarian writer and speaker, Director of the Center for the Study of Innovative Freedom (C4SIF), and Founding and Executive Editor of Libertarian Papers.


0:00 – What is libertarianism?

2:19 – Intellectual Property

6:07 – History of IP

13:05 – Central banking

16:11 – Taxation

18:06 – Drug war

20:30 – War

22:39 – Welfare

24:28 – State education

27:54 – The state

31:12 – Lockdowns

34:09 – A Proper understanding of socialism and capitalism

43:35 – Most important contributions of….

Carl Menger

Eugen von Bohm-Bawerk – Shorter Classics, https://www.amazon.com/Shorter-Classics-Eugen-Bohm-Bawerk-Vol/dp/B000LF8Z7Y – chapter II, “WHETHER LEGAL RIGHTS AND RELATIONSHIPS ARE ECONOMIC GOODS”

Ludwig von Mises

F.A. Hayek

Murray N. Rothbard – Economic Controversies https://mises.org/library/economic-controversies 

Walter Block

Lew Rockwell

—————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————

LBRY / Odysee: https://lbry.tv/@KeithKnightDontTreadOnAnyone:b/Libertarian-Litmus-Test:3

Minds: https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1203842123897409536?referrer=KeithKnightDontTreadOnAnyone

Archive: https://archive.org/details/libertarian-litmus-test

Keith Knight

Keith Knight

Keith Knight is Managing Editor at the Libertarian Institute, host of the Don't Tread on Anyone podcast and editor of The Voluntaryist Handbook: A Collection of Essays, Excerpts, and Quotes.

View all posts

Our Books

Shop books published by the Libertarian Institute.

libetarian institute longsleeve shirt

Our Books

cb0cb1ef 3fcb 417d 80d8 4eef7bbd8290

Recent Articles

Recent

Douglas Murray is Wrong About Churchill

Douglas Murray is Wrong About Churchill

https://youtu.be/XvlVtoRCAV8 “Retaliation was certain if we carried the war into Germany…Yet, because we were doubtful about the psychological effect of propagandist distortion of the truth that it was we who started the strategic offensive, we have shrunk from giving...

read more
Capitalism Clash: Freedom vs. Fairness

Capitalism Clash: Freedom vs. Fairness

https://youtu.be/BSJqaADbvng People who depict markets as cold, impersonal institutions, and their own notions as humane and compassionate, have it directly backwards. It is when people make their own economic decisions, taking into account costs that matter to...

read more

Pin It on Pinterest

Share This