Mises and Rothbard were half wrong. For their inspiration they looked to the ghe

Mises and Rothbard were half wrong. For their inspiration they looked to the ghetto: the anarchic state within a state – just as did all jewish intellectuals from that part of the world. The jewish enlightenment not the anglo or continental was where they looked for inspiration. The problem is, you’d need the monarchical state to reconstruct the ghetto. That’s the Crusoe economics: the island is the ghetto, and the ocean is its walls.

For a study of economics it’s adequate. Rothbard doomed our movement though, by looking to ghetto ethics. Effectively rothbard says “we will both give up violence but we will not give up deception.”

It has not occurred to Libertarians, of any stripe, that it’s praxeologically impossible to form a polity with enough trust in one another, and therefore low enough transaction costs, that they will reduce their demand for a third party (the state) and thus grant one another liberty.

It’s impossible because it’s irrational. Non logical.

This is why libertarianism failed. Rothbard does not so much advocate liberty as justify immorality.

There is no peaceful solution to liberty. The source of liberty (property rights), was the exchange of those rights between those men willing to use organized violence to obtain those rights – including the prohibition on violence, deception and free riding. The wealth that resulted from the prohibition on violence, deception and free riding produced status signals that were desirable for others to imitate. Over time, westerners evolved to adopt the prohibition on violence, deception and free riding,

Rothbardian ethics are parasitic because they do not enforce a requirement that individuals produce what they transfer – rothbardian ethics permit and justify parasitism. The NAP is insufficient because it does not prohibit parasitism. Without a prohibition on parasitism, humans will not reduce demand for a state to limit parasitism.

VIOLENCE IS A VIRTUE NOT A VICE

**If you will not fight for property rights, you have not earned them in exchange from those who do fight for them. You’re just another beggar trying to get them at a discount. Just another free rider on the backs of others. Just another parasite.**

Curt Doolittle

The Propertarian Institute

Kiev