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I understand the appeal of libertarian ideas for the autistic anti-authoritatian types but ultimately think that they are impractical, juvenile, miss the bigger picture and will never reach broad acceptance. Wordcels like Rand, Hoppe, Rothbard, Huerta de Soto and Miguel Anxo Bastos embody this contradiction by preaching rugged individualism from the comfort of state-subsidized systems they condemn. Societies built upon these principles have turned out to be a failure except for the elite.
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ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 5mo ago

i don't think you are portraying the life situation of those guys very accurately. you didn't mention mises. mises only narrowly escaped from being arrested by the gestapo and his library was torched. and they certainly didn't get much support from academia or else explain why the nearest you heard of them was Rand from Reagan and Thatcher until Ron Paul started talking about them.

and you didn't mention any of the new guys, like Jeffrey Tucker who entirely lives from his publishing and speaking.

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verbiricha 5mo ago

Perhaps my ad-hominem was not super accurate but those I mentioned did many things that were in direct contradiction with their ideas. Huge respect for those who practice what they preach.

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ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 5mo ago

i'm not gonna disagree with that entirely but likely they paid for their education and whatever amount of tenure they got was probably merited and you can't really say a bad thing about a university that would tenure these kind of people as professors.

it does have bearing that the education system was not the commie rathole it is now before the 80s. it was less commie. more of it was privately funded. less of the research was paid for under the table to sell products to get approved by the FDA.