“The notion that Menger wrote as Middle-Class German Jew is easily dispelled if

—“The notion that Menger wrote as Middle-Class German Jew is easily dispelled if you realize that Middle-Class German Jews do not usually tutor Austrian Crown princes, as Menger did with Rudolf.”— Johannes

Well, I wasn’t making that statement.

The point that I was making was that it’s ‘borderland’ thinking. And that the jews were central in the development of eastern ‘borderland thinking’ and that libertarianism and Jewish “Austrianism” arises out of eastern ‘borderland thinking’ for the same reason that “americanism” rises out of western ‘borderland thinking’.

Borderlands have the privilege of a protectorate without the obligations and institutions of a state.

We cannot confuse circumstantial privilege with intentional result.