An anonymous ancap sends along the text and original scan of a lecture given by Murray Rothbard at NYU in 1970. The audio is available at mises.org.
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The Radical Libertarian Alliance
An anonymous ancap sends along a piece potentially written by Murray Rothbard in 1969 that is apparently not available anywhere else online. It was found in the FEE archives when they were moving from their Irvington HQ in 2014.
We say potentially because, even though it was attributed to Rothbard in the FEE archive, when we asked Walter Block he said, “It might be Murray. But, if I had to guess, I’d say Roy Childs. This sounds like him.”
You can read the text below. Further down is a scan of original.
Murray Rothbard’s 100th Birthday
It’s hard to imagine what would have happened if Murray Rothbard had lived to become a centenarian. His productivity and humor were unmatched during his life, and who knows what scientific advances or hilarity would have come from an extra 32 years of Rothbard versus the State. I like to think we would be freer but, if not, at least I know we would have been having more fun.
Stephan Kinsella and Hans Hermann Hoppe edited a tribute to Murray called Rothbard at 100 that can be seen here.
Continue readingMurray Rothbard’s 97th birthday
Murray Rothbard continues to be an inspiration, even 28 years after his untimely death. Here are some of the kind words written in honor of his memory.
review of the Anarchist Handbook
Michael Malice‘s book The Anarchist Handbook is a collection of essays from anarchists of many varieties, each introduced by the author. Ancaps looking at the rest of the present-day anarchist movement might conclude that there is nothing to learn. However, it is instructive to see how close the idols of other anarchist philosophies came to libertarianism, and how their errors led to things like anarcho-socialism, anarcho-communism, and the like.
Malice, of course, includes some of the best essays in anarchist thought. Featured are Lysander Spooner‘s “No Treason #6“, an excerpt from David Friedman‘s “The Machinery of Freedom“, and the entirety of Murray Rothbard‘s “The Anatomy of the State“.
Continue readingYes, Ancaps Are Anarchists
Springtime of Nations did this fun analysis of the history of anarchism and how ancaps are rightful heirs of the term. The term is traced all the way from Proudhon to Murray Rothbard.
happy birthday Murray Rothbard
Murray Rothbard would have been 95 years old today. Here is a photo of him in 1927 at the tender age of 20 months.
Credits to Jeff Deist of the Mises Institute.
Anatomy of the State Film
Richard James sends along his new film based on Murray Rothbard’s classic piece Anatomy of the State. In addition to Murray’s excellent prose, it has animations, video clips, and guest appearances by such greats as Walter Williams, Thomas Sowell, and Milton Friedman.
Murray Rothbard on Keynes
The Mises Institute has Murray Rothbard’s copy of John Maynard Keynes’ The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money. Rothbard was not afraid to make comments in the margins, so looking inside is like listening in on Murray’s private thoughts. A quite a few thoughts there are:
If you liked the portrait of Keynes on the top of page 316, you’ll love the doodles on the cover pages:
One of my favorite comments is Rothbard’s reply to Keynes when Keynes wrote, “Those who are strongly wedded to what I shall call ‘the classical theory’, will fluctuate, I expect, between a belief that I am quite wrong and a belief that I am saying nothing new.”
To see more, visit the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama.
Less Common Photos of Murray Rothbard part 2
continued from the original post, these were sent along by an anonymous ancap, who says he got them from Jeff Deist. If you know any of the other people in the photos, please let us know so we can update the captions.
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