Rothbard's "Left and Right": 40 Years Later | Roderick T. Long

Roderick T. Long presents the 'Murray N. Rothbard Memorial Lecture' at the 2006 Austrian Scholars Conference. The ASC is the international, interdisciplinary meeting of the Austrian School, and is for scholars interested or working in this intellectual tradition. Held at the Mises Institute, Auburn, Alabama, March 16-18, 2006.

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[undercoveranarchist]

Excellent lecture. Very entertaining and illuminating with a small dose of humor to boot. But there seems to be a censored bit. He says: "think of it as spontaneous ..." and is blanked out to the gasps and moans and laughter of the audience, followed by a "sorry." Then the audio is briefly out of sync.

What did he say?

[misesmedia]

The removed section consisted of noise from the HVAC ductwork, during which Dr. Long paused his lecture.

[brainpolice2]

Awesome speech on an awesome writting.

[jblive1985]

man rothbasrd was a genius

[ForLiberty888]

Mr. Long displays shocking myopia about feminist movement that evolved from liberation movement into a senior partner of affirmative-action victimhood and political correctness hyper-sensitive hysteria.

[scottyparade]

I love you, Professor Long. Ugh. What an amazing thinker.

[ForAVoluntarySociety]

Excellent as usual misesmedia thank you

[StatelessLiberty]

He says "think of it as spontaneous ordure".

[BloodTypeRagu]

@100CommonCents lol that comments old. anyways yes we do have a deal it is absolutely true that 'capitalism' as it exists in our world is not the capitalism we are taught to think it is. if markets are interfered with regularly by anyone then its not really capitalism in the purest sense. and yes i am anti-capitalist as well as anti state which makes me an anarchist. the one pet peeve i have with austrians like murry rothbard is that they have stolen that label, and that goes for 'libertarian'

[100CommonCents]

@BloodTypeRagu lol we need to do a deal. we'll stop calling the soviet union, socialist, if the left libs stop calling western counties capitalist.

yeah?? deal? (i assume you are anti-capitalist?)

[BloodTypeRagu]

wtf the soviet union wasnt socialist. thats hypocrisy of the american 'libertarians' because if you criticize 'capitalism' of today they say that's not capitalism because they have in minf laissez-faire. but when we socialists point out the obvious fact that the soviet union or any of the so called 'communist' countries were not what they called themselves they act like you're insane

[CurtHowland]

@Floridanon407 "it sounds like you were channeling Konkin & Agorism."

Or Mises, Rothbard, Ian Freeman, there are a lot of people who have realized that peaceful interaction works.

If Stef is deliberately setting himself up as "leaves him as their idol", I don't see it. Could be that the sad souls who cling to his every word would have clung to someone else's every word, be they Baghwan, Preacher, Politician or Commanding Officer.

Sad to say, nobody worships me.

[Floridanon407]

@jgmdavi Beware, as Long put it so well, the widespread misunderstanding or personal definitions of Capitalism.

Clearly you mean it in the Austrian sense, but the right has over the years effectively perverted the general understanding of capitalism into mercantilism.