UKRAINE IS EVIDENCE OF THE FOLLY OF HOPPE’S DEFINITION OF PROPERTY We have an ol

UKRAINE IS EVIDENCE OF THE FOLLY OF HOPPE’S DEFINITION OF PROPERTY

We have an oligarchical government in Ukraine. That government is populated by the people who own the property – not judges resolving conflicts. What has happened is that they either rent seek, privatize commons, or socialize losses wherever possible.

As far as I can see, Rothbardian and Hoppeian arguments lead to Ukrainian despotism. Without prohibition on involuntary transfer of property-en-toto by full informed voluntary exchange, and the requirement for productivity, the law cannot be used to construct a condition of liberty.

We have Hoppeian/Rothbardian law here. The courts resolve conflicts in physical property only.

Hence, systemic, intergenerational parasitism.

Hoppe may be right that only property matters in so far as he means it. However, Hoppe is wrong that the scope of property can be limited to the intersubjectively verifiable.

Either your law is predicated upon property en toto, or you gave up your wealth of violence in exchange for being subject to indirect and dishonest predation.