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For a New Liberty at 50
I was born shortly after the end of World War II, in 1949, in the British occupied zone of West Germany. My parents were both refugees, endangered at or forcibly expelled from their original homes in Soviet-occupied East Germany. As countless others of my generation, then, I was raised by a generation of parents and teachers who had just experienced some horrific military defeat and were then… → Read More
Growing To Understand Contemporary Germany and Weep
Part 2 Part 2 Transcript The war in the Ukraine is the most recent and most dramatic and violent attempt at further advancing globalization, centralization and imperialism. The outcome of which is still very uncertain. It is also the latest demonstration of global elites to show in particular Germany (but also Western Europe and the EU) who is boss. In this they are being supported by elitist… → Read More
The Idea of a Private Law Society: The Case of Karl Ludwig von Haller
The following paper will serve as the basis for Professor Hoppe’s speech “The Idea of a Private Law Society: The Case of Karl Ludwig von Haller,” to be presented at the Property and Freedom Society Annual Meeting, Sep. 19, 2021, Bodrum, Turkey. The Idea of a Private Law Society: The Case of Karl Ludwig von Haller HansHoppe.com, Aug. 25, 2021 Hans-Hermann Hoppe1 “Libertarianism is logically… → Read More
Of Common, Public, and Private Property and the Rationale for Total Privatization
I have three goals. First, I want to clarify the nature and function of private property. Second, I want to clarify the distinction between “common” goods and property and “public” goods and property, and explain the construction error inherent in the institution of public goods and property. Third, I want to explain the rationale and principle of privatization. I. Theoretical Preliminaries I… → Read More
On the Corona Panic and Other Insanities
Hans-Hermann Hoppe is interviewed by Andrea Venanzoni for the Italian Online Magazine Atlantico. Rivista Di Analisi Politica, Economica e Geopolitica @ atlanticoquotidiano.it Q: The pandemic and the very often liberticidal, restrictive responses devised by states have led many people to rediscover the value of individual freedom, of natural law, as opposed to positive law. Do you think that the… → Read More
State or Private Law Society on Dealing With Corona
Thomas Jacob: Professor Hoppe, you are known as a critic of the state and of political centralization. Doesn’t the coronavirus prove that central states and central government regulations are necessary? On the contrary. Of course, the various central states and international organizations, such as the EU or the WHO, have tried to use the COVID-19 pandemic to their own advantage, i.e., to expand… → Read More
Nationalism and Secession
[Published in Chronicles, Nov. 1993, p. 23–25] With the collapse of communism all across Eastern Europe, secessionist movements are mushrooming. There are now more than a dozen independent states on the territory of the former Soviet Union, and many of its more than 100 different ethnic, religious, and linguistic groups are striving to gain independence. Yugoslavia has dissolved into various… → Read More
The Genius of Hoppe
[This talk was delivered 23 November at the Palais Coburg in Vienna, Austria, at an event commemorating the 70th anniversary of the publication of Mises’s Human Action.] Nowadays, it’s not uncommon for people as young as 20 or 30 to feel they have to share their memories with the world. Even at an advanced age, I prefer not to talk publicly about personal things and experiences in my life, but… → Read More
Getting Libertarianism Right
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Hoppe in Moscow
Here is a video of a recent speech given by the great Hans-Hermann Hoppe in Moscow. 1500 people came from as far away as Kiev and St. Petersburg, and several hundred had to be turned away because there was no more room. Go, Hans! Getting Libertarianism... Hans-Hermann Hoppe Best Price: $12.65 Buy New $7.95 (as of 08:50 EDT - Details) The Economics and Ethi... Hans-Hermann Hoppe Check Amazon for… → Read More
Secession and the State
A nation, therefore, has no right to say to a province: You belong to me, I want to take you. A province consists of its inhabitants. If anybody has a right to be heard in this case it is these inhabitants. Boundary disputes should be settled by plebiscite. (Omnipotent Government, p. 90) No people and no part of a people shall be held against its will in a political association that it does not… → Read More
On the American Ideology
Translated from German by Ohad Osterreicher[1] “We paint the world to ourselves as we like – until everything breaks down and no longer holds.” We live in the age of the American Empire. It can be that this empire will someday crumble. In the foreseeable future, however, it is here to stay, not on account of its military strength but first and foremost because of its ideological power. For the… → Read More
The Libertarian Quest
“To historians is granted a talent that even the gods are denied – to alter what has already happened!” (David Irving) It is no secret that I am not a Hayekian. Still, I consider Hayek a great economist – not in the same league as Mises, but few if any economists are. Hayek’s fame in the public mind, however, has less to do with his economic writings but stems largely from his writings in… → Read More
Class Analysis
I will do the following in this chapter: First, I will present a series of theses that constitute the hard-core of the Marxist theory of history. I claim that all of them are essentially correct. Then I will show how these true theses are derived in Marxism from a false starting point. Finally, I want to demonstrate how Austrianism in the Mises-Rothbard tradition can give a correct but… → Read More
4-Step Health-Care Solution
This essay was originally published in The Free Market in April 1993. It’s true that the US health-care system is a mess, but this demonstrates not market but government failure. To cure the problem requires not different or more government regulations and bureaucracies, as self-serving politicians want us to believe, but the elimination of all existing government controls. It’s time to get… → Read More
Why Politicians Win (and Workers Lose)
Socialism leads to the politicization of society. Hardly anything can be worse for the production of wealth. Socialism, at least its Marxist version, says its goal is complete equality. The Marxists observe that once you allow private property in the means of production, you allow differences. If I own resource A, then you do not own it and our relationship toward resource A becomes different… → Read More
The Logical Beauty of Libertarianism
[The Brazilian Philosophy Magazine Dicta & Contradicta interviews Hans-Hermann Hoppe. July 15, 2013.] Would the change from a statist to a libertarian society help or hinder the production of high culture? Hoppe: A libertarian society would be significantly more prosperous and wealthy and this would certainly help both low and high culture. But a free society — a society without taxes and… → Read More
World Government vs. Freedom and Civilization
[Transcript of a speech delivered at the 2009 Mises University.] At the beginning, I want to repeat a few points that I have made in my previous lecture on law and economics, and then I want to get to an entirely different subject than the one that I dealt with in that previous lecture. Because there is a scarcity in the world, we can have conflicts regarding these scarce resources. And because… → Read More
The State Is Run by Megalomaniacs
The following interview with Hans-Hermann Hoppe first appeared in the German weekly Junge Freiheit on November 2, 2012, and was conducted by Moritz Schwarz. It has been translated here into English by Robert Groezinger. Are taxes nothing but protection money? The state a kind of mafia? Democracy a fraud? Philosopher Hans-Hermann Hoppe is not only considered one of the most prominent pioneering… → Read More