Erik Ritter von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, “The Cultural Background of Ludwig von Mises,” Studies in Classical Liberalism series (Auburn, Ala.: Mises Institute, 1999). Writing for Americans about the cultural background of Ludwig von Mises, an eminent former compatriot of mine, poses some difficulties: how to present you with a world radically different
[ Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought , volume 2, chapter 3: “James Mill, Ricardo, and the Ricardian System.”] The theory of class conflict as a key to political history did not begin with Karl Marx. It began, as we shall see further below, with two leading French libertarians inspired by J.B. Say, Charles Comte (Say’s
The Free Market 15, no. 4 (April 1997) It is the widespread view in academia that John Maynard Keynes was a model classical liberal in the tradition of Locke, Jefferson, and Tocqueville. Like these men, it is commonly held, Keynes was a sincere, indeed, exemplary, believer in the free society. If he differed from the classical liberals in some
Class consciousness, says Marx, produces class ideologies. The class ideology provides the class with an interpretation of reality and at the same time teaches the members how to act in order to benefit their class. The content of the class ideology is uniquely determined by the historical stage of the development of the material productive forces
[ Leon Trotsky • By Irving Howe • Viking Press, 1978 &bull 214 pages. This review originally appeared in Libertarian Review , March 1979.] Leon Trotsky has always had a certain appeal for intellectuals that the other Bolshevik leaders lacked. The reasons for this are clear enough. He was a writer, an occasional literary critic — according to
“He loved liberty as other men love power,” was the judgment passed on Benjamin Constant by a contemporary. His lifelong concern, both as a writer and politician, was the attainment in France and in other nations of a free society; and at the time when classical liberalism was the specter haunting Europe — in the second and third decades of the
Writing for Americans about the cultural background of Ludwig von Mises, an eminent former compatriot of mine, poses some difficulties: how to present you with a world radically different from yours, a world far away, which in many ways no longer exists. For example, the birthplace of this eminent economist was for nearly fifty years within the
La teoría de la lucha de clases como clave de la historia política no empezó con Karl Marx. Empezó, como veremos más tarde, con dos importantes libertarios franceses inspirados por J.B. Say, Charles Comte (yerno de Say) y Charles Dunoyer, en la década de 1810 después de la restauración de la monarquía borbónica. Frente a la posterior degeneración
The Free Market 15, no. 4 (abril de 1997) Es la opinión generalizada en la academia que John Maynard Keynes fue un modelo clásico liberal en la tradición de Locke, Jefferson y Tocqueville. Al igual que estos hombres, Keynes era un creyente sincero y ejemplar en la sociedad libre. Si se diferenciaba de los liberales clásicos en algunos aspectos
La conciencia de clase, dice Marx, produce ideologías de clase. La ideología de clase proporciona a la clase una interpretación de la realidad y al mismo tiempo enseña a sus miembros cómo actuar para beneficiar a su clase. El contenido de la ideología de clase está determinado por el estadio histórico del desarrollo de las fuerzas materiales de
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