Political Theory

Some claim that if socialists understood economics they wouldn't be socialists. This is doubtful since the larger motivation is often political control.

We remember the Declaration's first paragraph and forget its last—the one where thirteen separate states declare themselves free and independent. Larsen Plyler on a legacy that got lost.

The liberal phase of the French Revolution—the part an American would recognize—lasted about six months. Everything after was its opposite. Ryan McMaken on why liberalism keeps getting blamed for a Terror it didn't cause.

Dr. Wanjiru Njoya argues that private property is the indispensable cornerstone of liberty and civilization, and that anti-discrimination laws—however well-intentioned—are a form of aggression against property.

We assume people are self-interested in the market and selfless in government. Tate Fegley on why dropping that double standard explains almost everything about how the state actually behaves.

The problem with socialism was never the wrong people in charge. It was socialism.

Bob sits down with the managing editor of the Libertarian Institute, Keith Knight, to sample arguments from his recent four-hour video cataloguing sixty-four problems with democratic socialism.

How German “anti-Marxism,” including national (anti-Marxian) socialism, absorbed the very Marxian ideas it claimed to oppose, with Werner Sombart as the case study of a thinker Marxist and anti-Marxist by turns.

How Marxism claims that truth itself is attainable only in a classless society, and how the cult of “action” and violence—by way of Georges Sorel and French syndicalism—fed into Leninism, fascism, and Nazi racial doctrine.

Marx’s doctrine of class and class conflict: the claim that class interests determine how people think and set the classes in irreconcilable conflict—with Mises noting that Marx never actually defined what a class is.