http://fvdb.wordpress.com/2010/10/25/quo-vadis-ludwig-von-mises/
What are you talking about? Those Mises quotes are great.
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I didn’t mean that. I meant his narrow Objectivist insults of libertarians esp mises crowd on the page.
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I think their pretty insulting quotes from Mises but probably to some degree quote mined given some of Mises other statements.
My first instinct is not to trust the words/actions of those who take Ayn Rand seriously. Plus, I’m not a rightist libertarian, so it really doesn’t effect me anyway
Some thinkers in the classical liberal tradition, starting around the 1960s and 70s, came to believe that a capitalist society could and should exist without a state. Some of them adopted, with reservation, the label anarchism, given its literal meaning, “without rulers.”
Mises, writing in the 1930s and 40s, ridiculed anarchists.
Therefore, Mises would disagree with present-day anarcho-capitalists. Is this conclusion sound?
Absolutely not, but that doesn’t tell us very much. There’s no reason to believe that Mises would change his mind and support this new version of anarchism.
Apparently the guy knows we have this topic up and is parading around Mises quotes as evidence of our defection from statism and Mises hatred of us.Funny that ,he got on well with Rothbard.Randianism is such a small world limited view.As I’ve said before it’s like the village idiot who’s never left there town proclaiming the ways of the world.Sorry for the strong terms but I can’t denounce them enough.
I’m reading the Jennifer Burns book Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right. (available in the Mises store).
It was interesting to hear that Mises was sort of a sexist pig toward her; even though he apparently liked The Fountainhead. And thought her views on morality (which instead influenced Rothbard) were superstitious. Mises also supported conscription, while Rand did not. Lots of interesting stuff about Mises in the book – apparently Mises was her number one go-to economist. And Rand, foreshadowing Walter Block, considered Hayek to be worse than socialist. She thought the socialist calculation problem was interesting and even said something like this as a variation:
“Under altruism, moral calculations cannot be made.”