05-09-2017, 03:44 AM
(05-08-2017, 12:33 PM)pbrower2a Wrote:(05-06-2017, 04:53 AM)Galen Wrote:(05-05-2017, 08:10 PM)Warren Dew Wrote:(05-05-2017, 07:27 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: If we are fortunate we will get a replay of 1776 in America.
Where property owners destroyed and replaced the state? We should be so lucky.
Indeed, they created possibly a society with more freedom for the individual than has ever been seen before. Unfortunately it didn't stay that way.
Hunger, exposure, ignorance. and gross exploitation are not freedom.
You do realize that life in the nineteenth century was far better than that in earlier eras. I would recommend a set of classroom lectures on the nineteenth and twentieth century economic history by Murray Rothbard. Oddly enough one of books he uses was written by Gabriel Kolko, no a friend of the free market, who admitted that many of the evils attributed to lassez-faire economic were not a consequence free markets.
Unfortunately, there is zero chance that you will listen to Rothbard and then make a judgment about his ideas.
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. -- H.L. Mencken
If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises
If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises