ANARCHIC WELL INTENTIONED FOOLS (worth repeating) (from elsewhere) It is a typic

ANARCHIC WELL INTENTIONED FOOLS

(worth repeating) (from elsewhere)

It is a typical tactic of the marxists, and the rothbardians adopted marxist methods of critique, to throw criticism of one’s opponents as a means of distraction from the failure or incompetence or lack of one’s ideas.

A great example of this technique is Lew Rockwell’s most recent book, which purports to offer solutions, but like most anarchic drivel, consists of nothing more than repeating rants against the state, leaving you waiting for the punch line (solution) that never comes.

That’s because there isn’t one.

The only way to eliminate the state (monopoly bureaucracy) is to eliminate demand for the state. And that is non-trivial. It is possible. But it’s non trivial/. And rothbardian low trust ghetto ethics (“aggression against intersubjectively verifiable property”) would increase demand for the state. How do we know? Because low trust ethics are practiced all over the world, and the lower the trust the higher the demand for authoritarian state. (See Russia and every single Arab country.)

Rothbard is like Marx, Freud, and Cantor and unfortunately Mises: well-intentioned fool using extraordinary verbal productivity and ability to create pseudoscience as means of justifying priors.

(giving them benefit of the doubt)