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The Idea that Democracy Is the Same as Liberty Is a Weapon in the Hands of Despots

2020-11-07

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2020-11-07

As Americans approach a date with their polling places and “get out the vote” campaigns crescendo, there is plenty of rhetoric that all but deifies democracy.

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Dr. Markus Krall und Dr. Thorsten Polleit: US Wahl 2020 und der politische Globalismus

2020-11-06

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„Krall & Polleit Direkt“ geht in die zweite Runde. In Ausgabe #2, gedreht am frühen Morgen des 4. November 2020 gibt es kein anderes Thema als die US-Wahl 2020. Es erfolgt eine erste Einordnung nach dem Wahltag durch Dr. Markus Krall (CEO, Degussa Goldhandel) und Chefökonom Dr. Thorsten Polleit, in welchem das spannende Kopf-an-Kopf-Rennen beider Kandidaten reflektiert wird. Inhalte (Zeitmarken) 00:00:00 Einleitung am frühen Morgen des 4....

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Why Socialism Won’t End Worker “Exploitation”

2020-11-06

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2020-11-06

A belief still commonly held today by not just Marxists and socialists, but progressives of many stripes, is the insistence that employers are “stealing” part of their workers’ labor because the wage workers receive from their employer are less than the contribution of their labor to the final value (i.e., selling price) of the finished good.

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#37 Thorsten Polleit zur noch nicht entschiedenen US Wahl – Golden Times

2020-11-05

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Der Ausgang der US-Wahl ist nach wie vor ohne Ergebnis. Thorsten Polleit: "Ich denke, es wird noch weitere Verzögerungen geben." Was sagt die Wahl aus über die Lage der Demokratie in den USA? "Die Demokratie in den USA erweckt mehr Vertrauen als beispielsweise viele Demokratien in Europa. Ich glaube, die Wahl zeigt, die Demokratie in den USA nach wie vor voll funktionsfähig ist." Welche Rolle spielt der Ausgang der Wahl? Wie ist...

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What Will It Take for Americans to Consider Breaking Up?

2020-11-05

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Things don't have to be this way. Original article: https://mises.org/power-market/what-will-it-take-americans-consider-breaking This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher Condon. Narrated by Michael Stack.

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The Election Was a Tie. Now What? | Ryan McMaken

2020-11-05

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The winner doesn’t represent “the nation.” There is no consensus. We’re not coming together “as a people.” These tired slogans should now strike every intelligent person as nonsense. Original article: https://mises.org/wire/election-was-tie-now-what "Close Elections Force Us to Ask Unpleasant Questions about Democracy" https://mises.org/wire/close-elections-force-us-ask-unpleasant-questions-about-democracy "Why Threats of...

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#2 „Krall & Polleit Direkt“ – Markus Krall und Thorsten Polleit mit einer Analyse der US-Wahl 2020

2020-11-05

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„Krall & Polleit Direkt“ geht in die zweite Runde. In Ausgabe #2, gedreht am frühen Morgen des 4. November 2020 gibt es kein anderes Thema als die US-Wahl 2020. Es erfolgt eine erste Einordnung nach dem Wahltag durch Dr. Markus Krall (CEO, Degussa Goldhandel) und Chefökonom Dr. Thorsten Polleit, in welchem das spannende Kopf-an-Kopf-Rennen beider Kandidaten reflektiert wird. Inhalte (Zeitmarken) 00:00:00 Einleitung am frühen Morgen des 4....

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The Benefits of Secession Are Becoming Increasingly Obvious

2020-11-05

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2020-11-05

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"Countries threaten to split apart when their people seem hopelessly divided…. We’re less united today than we’ve been at any time since the Civil War."

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Why Threats of Election Violence May Be Here to Stay

2020-11-05

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2020-11-05

Both private sector businesses and police departments believe there is a good chance there will be postelection unrest. Both groups are taking steps to protect themselves in case of riots. Some left-wing protest groups state they plan to do “whatever it takes” to make sure the correct candidate—i.e., Joe Biden—wins. The National Guard has mobilized in several states in anticipation of riots.

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Socialists Have Never Shown How They Could Increase the Standard of Living

2020-11-04

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2020-11-04

Marxism sees the coming of socialism as an inescapable necessity. Even if one were willing to grant the correctness of this opinion, one still would by no means be bound to embrace socialism. It may be that despite everything we cannot escape socialism, yet whoever considers it an evil must not wish it onward for that reason and seek to hasten its arrival; on the contrary, he would have the moral duty to do everything to postpone it as long as...

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The Problem with Modern Conservatism

2020-11-03

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Jeff Deist, president of the Mises Institute, talks about Hans-Hermann Hoppe’s “Democracy – The God that Failed” and the chapter about the problems with conservatism.

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The Benefits of Secession Are Becoming Increasingly Obvious

2020-11-03

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"Countries threaten to split apart when their people seem hopelessly divided…. We’re less united today than we’ve been at any time since the Civil War."

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Close Elections Force Us to Ask Unpleasant Questions about Democracy

2020-11-03

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A very close or contested election would remind us that elections do not demonstrate "the will of the people" and that national unity is founded on some very fragile myths.

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Jeff Deist on Hoppe’s Democracy: The God That Failed

2020-11-03

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2020-11-03

Why don't elections bring harmony and closure rather than ever greater political friction? Hans-Hermann Hoppe explained all of the fundamental problems with mass democracy more than 20 years ago in Democracy: The God That Failed.

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Understanding the Proper Meaning of “Equality”

2020-11-01

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2020-11-01

Nowhere is the difference between the reasoning of the older liberalism and that of neoliberalism clearer and easier to demonstrate than in their treatment of the problem of equality. The liberals of the eighteenth century, guided by the ideas of natural law and of the Enlightenment, demanded for everyone equality of political and civil rights because they assumed that all men are equal.

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Populism Worked for the Pro-Freedom Party in the Past. Can It Work Again?

2020-11-01

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2020-11-01

Although he was a scholar with degrees in mathematics and economics, Murray Rothbard was very much a fan of the American layman. Indeed, he was a populist both in temperament and in his political views. In a 1992 column outlining his populist strategy, Rothbard noted the importance of reaching out to the general public and especially to those groups that were most negatively impacted by state power.

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No, the American Republic Was Not Founded on Slavery

2020-10-31

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2020-10-31

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The fact that some Americans supported slavery in the eighteenth century is not at all remarkable. Most of the world agreed with them. What is remarkable is that many of them sought to abolish slavery in the new republic. This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher Condon. Narrated by Michael Stack. Original Article: "No, the American Republic Was Not Founded on Slavery".

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Populism Worked for the Pro-Freedom Party in the Past. Can It Work Again?

2020-10-30

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Is it still possible to "rouse the masses of people against the elites that are looting them" in effective numbers? As late as 1992, Rothbard thought so. And he had historical examples on his side.

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No, the American Republic Was Not Founded on Slavery

2020-10-30

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2020-10-30

Journalistic propaganda is a powerful instrument of indoctrination. Without evidence, foul ideas can easily penetrate mainstream discourse. For instance, recently it has become fashionable to posit that slavery is America’s original sin.

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Was Rothbard a Populist?

2020-10-29

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2020-10-29

Why did Murray Rothbard embrace populism and why did he think it could work to limit the power of the state? In short, Rothbard believed that a small elite had seized the power of the state to fleece and oppress the majority. Rothbard was in part basing his ideas on the historical narrative of the Democratic populists of the nineteenth century who formed the party of sound money, low taxes, and decentralized power. This laissez-faire party also...

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