Liberalism | Ralph Raico

Presented by Ralph Raico at the 2009 Mises University. Recorded 28 July 2009 at the Ludwig von Mises Institute; Auburn, Alabama.

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[Galt425]

That's right, history is -boring- pay no attention to the brown shirt behind the curtain, none of this has any bearing on anything. Go back to sleep now, good sheeple...

(and -I- got an F in high school history, yeesh)

[grraadd]

0:02:30 sorry, but these were only banners - just like banners in N.Korea... Shelves in shops were empty and only most brain damaged still believed in socialism. Red Army and Secret Police behind your shoulder would persuade you easily to bow to social idols and party apparatchiks.

[planetofelites]

Awesome video, thanks!

[samuils]

Why in the world would you get a good grade in History, the one being taught in high school? Not sure about you, but the way I remember history lessons, they were nothing but dates and zero facts, and zero discussions of events. I really hate learning useless dates.

[tridentmovies]

Strikers must have used some form of aggression or trespassing, in which case businessmen were right to call in police and soldiers. They should do that TODAY. I doubt they were peacefully striking on their own property, because shooting strikers kind of makes it hard for them to get back to work. Anyway, initiating aggression against person or property is by definition rejected by libertarians where ever it comes from. You can apply that rule to this situation and know what libertarians think.

[tridentmovies]

No.

Classical liberal is too broad and vague and can include libertarians of various stripe, both totally anti-state as well as those who think the state has a role to play. Ancaps call themselves this precisely to make clear what they believe.

[PrivateAckbar]

"define us out of existence" is very Orwellian :D

[PrivateAckbar]

John Stuart Mill sounds like a funny kind of intolerant libertine. I've always been a Rothbardian inside but I was raised around Marxist aggressive atheists so I remember being a bit like this. I wouldn't say Mill WASN'T a liberal. He seems like the yin to those "conservatives" who would say things like "communism is race mixing".

[PrivateAckbar]

Ralph's awesome. Have ya seen his Churchill lecture?

[megatherium100]

If you dont like were you work or how your boss threats you can do something very simple that is age old and still works today, FUCKING QUIT YOUR JOB, get another job or start your own bussines. I dont know why people want to still work in the sema place but force there boss and theire workplace envoriment to improve to theire benefit. You are forcing other people to do your bidding at theire expense, thats call extortion and it is a crime.

[Ganga Din]

@Objectivist1994

Where were the strikers? Outside the property of the businessman.. or in their homes and places they owned?

Nothing wrong with shooting down armed invaders and occupiers of your property.