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The estimable Rod Long argues in an earlier post that we should stop the war on May Day by returning to its origins as a celebration of worker’s movements, rather than transforming it into a commemoration of the crimes of governments.
I’m more interested in the OTHER war on May Day.
Back in [...]
Percy Shelley – Left-Libertarian?
By Matt Zwolinski On April 23, 2013 · 7 Comments · In A Bleeding Heart History of Libertarian Thought, Left-libertarianism, Libertarianism
Most of you are probably familiar with Shelley for his Romantic poetry. But did you know that he dabbled in political philosophy too? Perhaps even … libertarian political philosophy? Check out the following excerpt from his 1820 essay, A Philosophical View of Reform, especially the third paragraph, and look for the [...]
The great historian of classical liberalism, Steve Davies, has an excellent new podcast on “Forgotten Libertarians of American History” (podcast and a somewhat garbled transcript available through the link). Davies focuses on the period between 1870 and 1914, an era which he says is usually neglected by libertarians in [...]
Antoine Claude Destutt de Tracy has a plausible claim to being the first libertarian, if by that word we understand something like the combination of rights theory, consent theory, and thoroughly market-oriented economics that has characterized libertarian thought in the past fifty years. He was relentlessly individualistic in method and laissez-faire in conclusions. Compared with [...]
Capitalism and Freedom was published in 1962 without much fanfare, though it has since stood the test of time. But Free to Choose was an international sensation when it was published in 1980. Among economists of a certain generation, they find Capitalism and Freedom the more tightly reasoned book, and [...]
Political Philosophy’s Fundamental Question
By Kevin Vallier On February 13, 2012 · 34 Comments · In Academic Philosophy, Liberalism, Libertarianism, Liberty, Rights Theory
In this post, my aim is to identify political philosophy’s fundamental question. Yes, I want to attempt this in a blog post, so my answer will undoubtedly be radically incomplete. But I believe I can sketch a brief case for why the social contract theorists got it right. If we understand why, I [...]
I want to thank Matt for the invitation to blog through the semester at BHL. And contrary to Steve Horwitz’s depiction I don’t roll my eyes at the phase “bleeding heart libertarianism” but at the state of intellectual play in academia, and our broader intellectual culture, that makes the introduction of such an [...]
If you’re like most people, then the one thing you probably think you know about Herbert Spencer is that he was a “Social Darwinist.” And that one thing is wrong.
Libertarians like George Smith and Roderick Long (over and over again) have long defended [...]
I’ve been listening to Murray Rothbard’s Economic Thought Before Adam Smith: An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, vol. 1, available as a free PDF here or as a free audiobook narrated by the sonorous Jeff Riggenbach here. Early on, there’s an extended discussion of the idea [...]
Few political philosophers have had an influence comparable to that of John Locke. In his own time, he was a revolutionary whose ideas ultimately triumphed in the Glorious Revolution of 1688 with the overthrow of King James II. And not too long after his death, his ideas would have tremendous influence in the American [...]
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