Posted by Steve Horwitz on October 21, 2011 at 10:51 AM at The Coordination Problem Blog My reading group is tackling the “Principles and Expediency” chapter of Hayek’s Law, Legislation, and Liberty today. I always forget how terrific this chapter is and it’s full of quotable stuff and some of Hayek’s best work on the [...]
Category Archives: Tyranny
Hayek on Interpreting The Road to Serfdom
Also posted in Socialism Tagged Federick Hayek, Road to Serfdom, Steve Horwitz, The Coordination Problem Leave a comment
This Is Outragous! Government Abuse? State-ism!
I’ve always known that the “State” is made up of people. That power, which corrupts, has as it object people. That in the end for the State to abuse its power it is someone who will carry out the abuse. It could be your neighbor, or someone you meet in a bar, a dad of [...]
Atlas Shrugged Part 1 – Trailer
I am so excited about this project. This is the trailer for the movie Atlas Shrugged Part 1 and the movie will be in theaters on April 15th. Tax day, how appropriate. Check the Atlas Shrugged Part 1 website.
Also posted in Ayn Rand, Battle for Liberty, Enviro Politics, Individual Liberty, Justice, Socialism Tagged Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand, free markets, John Gault Leave a comment
The Death of Entrepreneurship
Here is a short video based on an new book entitled, “New Threats to Freedom,” published by Templeton Press which discusses how government regulation has the tendency to crush the entreprenueur and his ability to create wealth and jobs. Check it out.
Also posted in Individual Liberty, Private Property Tagged Entrepreneurship, Government Regulation, Templeton Press 1 Comment
Lost Wisdom: Gustav Cassel on Economic Planning
By Steve Horwitz: Posted on the Coordination Problem Blog Site. This is from a 1934 Cobden Memorial lecture of Gustav Cassel’s entitled “From Protectionism through Planned Economy to Dictatorship”: Planned economy will always tend to develop into Dictatorship…[because] experience has shown that representative bodies are unable to fulfill all the multitudinous functions connected with economic [...]
Also posted in Socialism Tagged Dictatorship, F. A. Hayek, Gustav Cassel, Planned Economy, Steve Horwitz, Tyranny Leave a comment
We Are No Longer a Nation of Laws. Senate Sets Up Requirement for Super-Majority to Ever Repeal Obamacare
The Senate Democrats declare a super-majority of senators will be needed to overrule any regulation imposed by the Death Panels Posted by Erick Erickson (Profile) Monday, December 21st at 10:15PM EST at Redstate.com If ever the people of the United States rise up and fight over passage of Obamacare, Harry Reid must be remembered as [...]
Posted in Tyranny Tagged Death Panels, Obamacare, Section 3403, Senator Harry Reid, Tyranny 4 Comments
The Philosophical Ideas Behind Political Power And Tyranny – Part Two
The citizen is no longer the judge of the dangers to which the law desires him to expose himself; and when the prince says to him: ‘It is expedient for the State that you should die,’ he ought to die, because it is only on that condition that he has been living in security up [...]
Also posted in Socialism Tagged Ernst Cassirer, F.S.C. Northrup, Freedom In Chains, G. W. F. Hegel, James Bovard, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Johann Gottlieb Fichte 2 Comments
The Philosophical Ideas Behind Political Power And Tyranny – Part One
From the twelfth to the eighteenth century governmental authority grew continuously. The process was understood by all who saw it happening; it stirred them to incessant protest and violent reaction. In later times its growth has continued at an accelerated pace….And now we no longer understand the process, we no longer protest, we no longer [...]
The Essence of Freedom
Mises Daily by Robert Montgomery | Posted on 9/2/2009 12:00:00 AM When the news of young America’s novel design for living in freedom reached it, the Old World shook its head with profound skepticism. It would never work, they said. The idea was too “revolutionary,” too “progressive,” too “radical,” and certainly too “liberal.” The prevailing [...]
Also posted in Classical Liberalism Tagged Classical Liberalism, Freedom, Mises Institute, Robert Montgomery, The Freeman, Tyranny 1 Comment
Democracy As Pseudo-Savior
The road to the restoration of liberty is going to be long and fraught with ups and downs. Many don’t even know that our liberties are being usurped and that statism has arrived. Some don’t want to know because they are our “weaker brethren,” and they prefer to just “believe” everything will cruse along as [...]
