Karl Marx not only misunderstood value and production, but he also was wrong about large-scale and small-scale property owners.

Karl Marx not only misunderstood value and production, but he also was wrong about large-scale and small-scale property owners.

Francis Fukuyama wrote The End of History more than 30 years ago, believing that the fall of the communist bloc would lead to a more peaceful world. We are still waiting for that moment of peace.

Francis Fukuyama wrote The End of History more than 30 years ago, believing that the fall of the communist bloc would lead to a more peaceful world. We are still waiting for that moment of peace.

While there is a public uproar about China having access to the work of American scientists, there is a bigger issue at stake: Is science “owned” by “the public”? If not, why are we so worried about the Chinese?

While there is a public uproar about China having access to the work of American scientists, there is a bigger issue at stake: Is science “owned” by “the public”? If not, why are we so worried about the Chinese?

The anti-meat movement has influenced government policy well beyond anything close to the truth about meat. From the discredited food pyramid to government funding of “lab-grown meat,” government aids the activists who are making our lives worse.

The anti-meat movement has influenced government policy well beyond anything close to the truth about meat. From the discredited food pyramid to government funding of “lab-grown meat,” government aids the activists who are making our lives worse.

Government entities like the Postal Service operate in a world of market prices, so they are not fully socialist. However, they still are subject to the limitations of socialist calculation problems.

Issues of homelessness and vagrancy in public spaces and on public transportation are made worse because government ownership of the property does not allow for exclusion. Instead, we get the “tragedy of the commons.”

A number of countries, including Great Britain, has “right to roam” policies in which people are permitted to go onto private property, often against the owner’s wishes. This is nothing more than giving people a license to trespass.

“Humanitarian intervention” sells itself as a moral shortcut: bypass the messy politics, send in the troops, stop the monster.

When someone argues in favor of state control of economic processes, they are, by definition, presenting an argument based upon the ad baculum fallacy, the “appeal to force.”

Thanks to taxpayer funding, scientific research has become utterly and hopelessly politicized. It’s time to pull the plug on this funding for good.

Every lover of liberty should have a good reading list that promotes freedom. At the same time, one should develop the discerning eye to recognize statist language and to reject it.

As Murray Rothbard warned decades ago, government-sponsored science is simply an extension of the bureaucracy used by the regime to force its policies on others. This is not an accident or anomaly; it is how government works.

Murray Rothbard properly noted that the predatory state needs its “court intellectuals” to legitimize its predations. American higher education is happy to provide them.

For more than 40 years, the Farmland Protection Policy Act has socialized US farmlands and transferred wealth to politically-connected people. What it hasn’t done is protect farmland.

For more than 40 years, US farm policy has socialized farm land and transferred wealth to politically-connected people.

"Effective altruism" has become a buzzword with modern progressives who seek to combine state power and billionaire-funded nonprofits to redirect resources.
Original Article: A Rothbardian Critique of Effective Altruism