All Posts Tagged With: "Karl Marx"
Confessions of a Secret Marxist
After 33 years of writing articles and columns about capitalism and freedom for The Freeman, I’ve decided to confess. I’m a Marxist, and have been from a very early age. I’m not the kind of Marxist that you normally think of when that term is used. I have nothing in common with Karl. I am [...]
22Sep2010 | Lawrence W. Reed | 15 comments | ContinuedAustrian Exploitation Theory
Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk famously refuted the Marxian theory that the employer-employee relationship is intrinsically exploitative. Less well known is that he had an exploitation theory of his own.
6Aug2010 | Sheldon Richman | 6 comments | ContinuedWhat Can Friends of Freedom Learn from the Socialists?
On March 14, 1883, a German philosopher living in exile in London passed away. When he was buried three days later in a modest grave where his wife had been laid to rest two years earlier, fewer than ten people were present, half of them family members. His closest friend spoke at the gravesite and [...]
1Jul2010 | Richard M. Ebeling | 1 comment | ContinuedBook Reviews – December 2008
Is the Welfare State Justified? by Daniel Shapiro Cambridge University Press • 2007 • 309 pages • $80.00 hardcover; $27.99 paperback Reviewed by George C. Leef Americans have lived with the welfare state for so long—more than 70 years—that for most, it is simply a fact of life. Asking whether it is justified would seem [...]
1Dec2008 | George C. Leef | 0 comments | ContinuedA Sennholz Sampler
Editor’s Note: Hans Sennholz, a former president and trustee of FEE and long-time chairman of the economics department at Grove City College, died in June at age 85. We honor his memory with three of the many articles he contributed over the years. “Jobs and Trade,” July 1996 Unemployment is the great puzzle of our [...]
1Jun2007 | Hans F. Sennholz | 0 comments | ContinuedDialectics and Liberty
Ten years ago the first two books of what has become known as my “Dialectics and Liberty” trilogy were published. Those books—Marx, Hayek, and Utopia (SUNY Press) and Ayn Rand: The Russian Radical (Penn State Press)—together with the culminating work, Total Freedom: Toward a Dialectical Libertarianism (Penn State Press), constitute a defense of dialectical method [...]
1Sep2005 | Chris Matthew Sciabarra | 3 comments | ContinuedThe Legacy of Marx
A number of women (and men) have recently been contending that women who are just as productive as men are being employed on the average for only about 70 percent as much pay, and that the statistics prove it. I am not going to quarrel with the comparisons of men’s and women’s actual wages, but [...]
1Nov2004 | Henry Hazlitt | 0 comments | ContinuedA Museum You Don’t Want to Miss
More than 150 years ago Karl Marx predicted that communism was inevitable. History, he claimed, was marching inexorably toward a communist paradise. In hindsight it would appear that if anything about communism was inevitable, it was that it would sooner or later be relegated to the status of museum relic. In the capital city of a formerly communist country in eastern Europe, that’s exactly what has happened.
1Mar2004 | Lawrence W. Reed | 1 comment | ContinuedAtomistic Individualism: Anatomy of a Smear
Contributing Editor Tibor Machan is a professor at the Argyros School of Business and Economics at Chapman University. For more than two centuries classical liberalism has irked thinkers both right and left. Hegel, Rousseau, Comte, and of course Karl Marx did a great deal of pen-wielding to combat it, and one of their most potent [...]
1Oct2003 | Tibor R. Machan | 1 comment | ContinuedMedical Technology and the State
So-called public-policy experts often take the many advances in modern technology for granted. They assume that government regulations and controls merely redistribute the fruits of progress without affecting the nature and extent of technological development itself. But that is wrong. Whenever the government involves itself in the financing and distribution of goods and services, the [...]
1May2002 | Gary M. Pecquet | 1 comment | ContinuedKarl Marx: A Life by Francis Wheen
W.W. Norton • 2000 • 431 pages • $27.95 This book is described by the author as “an attempt to rediscover Karl Marx the man . . . a Prussian immigrant who became a middle class English gentleman; an angry agitator who spent most of his adult life in . . . the British Museum [...]
1Jul2001 | Antony Flew | 1 comment | ContinuedMay Day: Classlessness and Mr. Marx
Contributing editor William Peterson is an adjunct scholar with the Heritage Foundation. May Day is a signal to radical labor groups and parties the world over to take to the streets, make fiery speeches, parade, protest, demonstrate, and carry an increasingly common if bizarre placard, “Capitalism Kills.” So the holiday, set by the Second Socialist [...]
1May2001 | William H. Peterson | 0 comments | ContinuedIt All Started with Adam
Adam Smith, that is. Having just completed writing a history of economics,[1] I have concluded that, despite the protestations of Murray Rothbard and other detractors, the eighteenth-century moral philosopher and celebrated author of The Wealth of Nations deserves to be named the founding father of modern economics.
1May2001 | Mark Skousen | 1 comment | ContinuedNational Gun Registration: The Road to Tyranny
Miguel A. Faria Jr., M.D., is the editor-in-chief of Medical Sentinel, the journal of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, and author of Vandals at the Gates of Medicine: Historic Perspectives on the Battle Over Health Care Reform (1995) and Medical Warrior: Fighting Corporate Socialized Medicine (Hacienda Publishing Inc., 1997, www.haciendapub.com). Georg Hegel (1770-1831), [...]
1Mar2001 | Miguel A. Faria Jr. | 0 comments | ContinuedNeither Left nor Right
The problem with the pendulum approach is that Adam Smith is characterized as “extreme” as Karl Marx. By implication, neither economist is sensible.
1Jul2000 | Mark Skousen | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Lost Literature of Socialism
The literature of socialism is lost only in the sense of not having been read for a very long time. George Watson has been re-reading this literature as a professional literary critic, with strong interests in both political affairs and the history of ideas. Many of his findings are astonishing. Perhaps for readers today the [...]
1Sep1999 | Antony Flew | 0 comments | ContinuedDefining State and Society
Two of the most important concepts in any discussion of liberty are state and society. But it is often far from clear what any given person means by those terms. Part of the confusion stems from the fact that the definitions can shift dramatically depending upon the theoretical approach of the speaker. Virtually all individualists [...]
1Apr1998 | Wendy McElroy | 0 comments | Continued-
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