THE PROPERTARIAN ‘BRAND’ a) people try to use ‘propertarian’ to add ‘cache’ to t

THE PROPERTARIAN ‘BRAND’

a) people try to use ‘propertarian’ to add ‘cache’ to the fact that they’re just rothbardian libertarians, and we’ve pretty much ended rothbardian libertarianism as a viable strategy.

(b) Propertarianism provides a complete philosophical system and a formal logic. I chose ‘propertarian’ because there were very, very, few extant uses of the term, and because I wanted to capture the evolution from Locke->Rothbard->Hoppe to my self. So technically speaking if you reduce all social science to statements of property then categorically you could say your a follower of the propertarian. That said, there is a very great difference between locke, rothbard, hoppe, and myself (property in toto) and the claims we make.

So Unless a person can articulate which of those scopes of property he is referring to and why I would tend to describe him as saying the equivalent of ‘libertarian or anarcho capitalist’ or ‘undecided libertarian’.

We tend to use the terms ‘Aristocratic Egalitarian’, Propertarian, or Natural law. And we certainly expect people to try to usurp the term just as liberals stole liberal, and rothbard stole libertarian we expect people to try to steal propertarian. Its ok. it is what it is.

I suppose the fact that I own most of the permutations of the domains propertarian*.* is enough of a testimony. But it’s not like I care. all advertising is good advertising.

-Cheers