Egalitarianism as a Revolt Against Nature and Other Essays (repost)
Egalitarianism as a Revolt Against Nature and Other Essays By Murray N. Rothbard
Publisher: Ludwig Von Mises Institute 2000 | 321 Pages | ISBN: 0945466234 | PDF | 2 MB
Publisher: Ludwig Von Mises Institute 2000 | 321 Pages | ISBN: 0945466234 | PDF | 2 MB
This volume represents some of Rothbard's most advanced and radical theorizing on topics impacting on human liberty. Appearing first in 1974, this volume, more than any of other, came to build a generation of libertarian scholars that looked beyond the trapping of conventional left-right thinking, and hence laid the groundwork for the current intellectual revolt against centralized social and economic management.
The book's title comes from the lead essay, which argues that egalitarian theory always results in politics of statist control because it is founded on revolt against the ontological structure of reality itself. It is an attempt to replace what exists with a Romantic image of an idealized primitive state of nature, an ideal which cannot and should not be achieved. The implications of this point are worked out on topics such as market economics, child rights, environmentalism, feminism, foreign policy, redistribution–and a host of other issues that are driving public debate today.