Originally Posted by a knight
Originally Posted by issodhos
By the way, the "right wing anarchism" you are suggesting would be better termed "anarcho-capitalism", which is heavily influenced by classical liberalism and modern libertarian thought. It is not, however, the equivilent of libertarianism. But, good luck with your thread.:-)
Yours,
Issodhos
As someone who has been active here and there within the Libertarian Party, I believe that they squandered their chance to become a proper political force, when they bought into the elevation of property rights to primacy propounded by the Austrian School.

The Austrians have now distorted reality, and far too many libertarians believe complex property rights are preexistent to the state. This is not an attempt to devalue the place of private ownership in a free society; that is an imperative, but as I believe you know full well; habeas corpus and due process of law are even stronger predicates for a free society.

I think Schlack is asking about libertarian thought and philosophy, a knight, not the political party of the same name.

You and I apparently disagree on property because I see it as a most natural Right. Indeed, I thnk that your argument above is a bit self-contradictory concerning property in that there can be no more profound property Right than the Right to ownership by one of one's person, which would be the rational basis for an individual being able to invoke habeas corpus in the first place.

I do make a distinction between personal property (up to and including structures) vs land. I mentioned this to you in a thread a while back but I do not know if you saw it.

It is also my conviction that there is no more reality-based school of economic thought than that of the Austrian School. Indeed, I know of no other school of economic thought that is so closely tied to the actual and intimate day to day life of people, or as capable of providing an understanding into what von Mises called "human action" while lending it self robustly to the concept of individual liberty.
Yours,
Issodhos

Last edited by issodhos; 11/16/07 12:40 PM. Reason: correct "private" to "personal"
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