Mises Daily
Author:
Murray N. Rothbard
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[This article is excerpted from chapter 15 of The Ethics of Liberty . Listen to this article in MP3 .] Liberals generally wish to preserve the concept of “rights” for such “human” rights as freedom of speech, while denying the concept to private property. And yet, on the contrary the concept of “rights” only makes sense as property rights. For