Roman Skaskiw
http://romaninukraine.com
http://romanskaskiw.com/blog
Ludwig Von Mises Institute:
http://mises.org
http://mises.org.ua
Property, Government &
Democracy
Who owns your body?
Austrian School of Economics
http://mises.org
http://mises.org.ua
Ludwig Von Mises
Murray Rothbard
Hans Hermann Hoppe
Summary
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A Theory of Property Rights
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Short Film – Philosophy of Liberty
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Democracy
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Anarcho-Capitalism
Who owns your body?
Drugs?
Prostitution?
Selling a kidney?
Two Methods of Property
Ownership
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Homesteading
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Voluntary Exchange
Public “Property”
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Violates theory of Property
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Source of Conflict
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Requires Violence
Two Principles for Privitization
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Return to taxpayers via vouchers
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Homesteading
Philosophy of Liberty Video
Democracy!
Democracy!!!
President H. W. Bush, 1994: “Ultimately, the best strategy
to ensure our security . . . is to support the advance of
democracy elsewhere. Democracies don't attack each
other.”
Margaret Thatcher, 1990: “Democracy . . . from the United
States to the Far East . . . would give us the best
guarantee of all for security – because democracies don't
go to war with one another.”
(American Civil War???)
Democracy!!!
Founding Fathers on Democracy
John Adams: Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and
murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.
Thomas Jefferson: A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where 51% of
the people may take away the rights of the other 49%.
James Madison: Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and
contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the
rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they
have been violent in their death.
James Madison: Democracy was the right of the people to choose their own
tyrant.
John Quincy Adams: The experience of all former ages had shown that of all
human governments, democracy was the most unstable, fluctuating and
short-lived.
Quotes about Democracy
Hyppolyte Taine, Origines de la France contemporaine,
1880s: One puts in the hands of each adult a ballot, and on the
back of each soldier a knapsack, with what promises of
massacre and bankruptcy for the Twentieth Century.
Hoffman & Nickerson, The Armed Horde, 1793-1939, 1940
Democracy vs. Monarchy
Democracy vs. Monarchy
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Nature of War
Xenophobic Nationalism
Selection of leaders
Long term vs. short term
The State as a Monopoly on
Justice and Force
Division of Power
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Medieval Germany
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Voting with your feet
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Competition of Justice and Force
De Soto's Political & Economic
Philosophy Chart
Government
Yes
Yes
Private
Property
Rights
No
No
Government
Yes
Yes
Private
Property
Rights
No
Socialists
No
Government
Yes
Yes
Private
Property
Rights
No
Fascists
Socialists
No
Government
Yes
No
Yes
Private
Property
Rights
Anarchists
No
Fascists
Socialists
Government
Yes
No
Yes
Private
Property
Rights
No
Fascists
Socialists
AnarchoCommunists
Government
Yes
No
Classical
Liberals
Yes
Private
Property
Rights
No
Fascists
Socialists
AnarchoCommunists
Government
Yes
No
Classical
Liberals
Yes
Private
Property
Rights
Social Democrats
No
Fascists
Socialists
AnarchoCommunists
Government
Yes
No
Classical
Liberals
Yes
Private
Property
Rights
Social Democrats
No
Fascists
Socialists
AnarchoCommunists
Government
Yes
No
Classical
Liberals
Yes
Private
Property
Rights
Social Democrats
No
Fascists
Socialists
AnarchoCommunists
Government
Yes
Classical
Liberals
No
AnarchoCapitalists
Yes
Private
Property
Rights
Social Democrats
No
Fascists
Socialists
AnarchoCommunists
Summary
Summary
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Self-ownership
Theory of Property Ownership
Democracy vs. Division of Power
Consider Private Security and Private
Justice