Via Anarcho-Capitalists' Forum: Rothbard’s Plan for Laissez-Faire Activism

The United States has not had a large, organized laissez-faire political movement since the 1890s, when the Democratic Party explicitly embraced an agenda of low taxes, restrained foreign policy, political decentralization, and opposition to a central bank. Certainly, since that time, laissez-faire factions have been part of various political coalitions and parties. The Old Right, for example, embraced laissez-faire both in foreign policy and in the movement’s opposition to the New Deal. And the post–World War II era included laissez-faire activists as one group within the conservative movement.

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But the conservatives were led primarily by hard-core interventionists in foreign policy. For them, even domestic laissez-faire was a minor afterthought. After all, William F. Buckley, perhaps at the top of the movement’s leadership, demanded that Americans be prepared to accept “for the duration” of the Cold War a “totalitarian bureaucracy within our shores.”

Obviously any political movement dominated by such views could not embrace laissez-faire with sincerity. Thus, for more than a century now, the minority-bound parties of laissez-faire have asked themselves: How can an effective and growing movement be sustained?

The answer lies in a two-pronged approach: first, an intellectual and ideological battle must be waged to win over at least some key portions of the public. But once this has been done—or perhaps while it is being done—others must also work to translate this intellectual foundation into practice.

Not surprisingly, Murray Rothbard had some ideas on this.

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Via Anarcho-Capitalists' Forum: Rothbard’s Plan for Laissez-Faire Activism

Via Anarcho-Capitalists' Forum: Rothbard’s Plan for Laissez-Faire Activism

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