The Left The Right and The State 1st Edition by Llewellyn H Rockwell Jr ISBN 1933550201 978-1933550206

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ISBN 10: 1933550201 

ISBN 13: 978-1933550206

Author: Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr. 

Lew Rockwell’s new manifesto is a clarion call creative and thought-provoking on every page for a principled liberty in our time. There are very few books in which you can open up any page and immediately find a quotable and inspiring passage that will make you think hard, laugh out loud, or see things a completely new way. This is certainly one of them.

He covers every topic related to economics and politics, from the business cycle, to trade, to the drug war, to environmentalism. His central thesis is that the threat to liberty comes from both the left and the right, and that neither really offers a consistent way out. The real problem is much deeper than either the right or the left recognizes. It is the institution of the state itself, which everyone seems to want to use to his own philosophical advantage.

The problem, he writes, is that not that we have chosen the wrong flavor of public policy but that we have public policy at all. All forms of policy decisions made by state institutions that affect the uses of private property according to political priorities amount to invasions of liberty. Relentlessly moving from left-wing to right-wing and back to left-wing policy is not progress; it means continued movement down the road to serfdom.

Beautifully edited and pristinely argued, this is a work in applied Austro-libertarian theory, tracking issues and headlines as they occur and bringing the light of logic and evidence to bear on the question at hand. The articles collected can be read in a matter of five minutes each, and they are organized along topical lines.

He is especially good in dealing with issues of national crisis, such as weather disasters, terrorist attacks, and economic downturns. He shows that liberty is more important in these times than any other. And while others back away during these times, he has consistently been out front, calling for peace when the masses are screaming for war, calling for freedom when the politicians demand a crackdown, and urging a free market when everyone else seems to be clamoring for state solutions.

If you have read Lew Rockwell’s articles and speeches over the years, and wished for a single collection, it has finally arrived in a beautifully bound hardback that is a real treasure to own and study. It makes a lasting impact.

Rockwell is the founder and president of the Mises Institute, and the editor of his own site LewRockwell.com. He has played an important role in the shaping of libertarian theory for a quarter of a century. This book shows how and why. Subtle, radical, and compelling, Rockwell’s book is a great addition to the legendary literature of political dissidents.

Table of contents:

Part I: The State

1 Times Change, Principles Don’t
2 Freedom Is Not “Public Policy”
3 Legalize Drunk Driving
4 Society Needs No Managers
5 Declaration Confusion
6 Anatomy of an Iraqi State
7 Why the State Is Different
8 Which Way the Young?
9 Absorbed by the State
10 Working Around Leviathan
11 Why Politics Fails
12 President Who?
13 Know Your Government
14 Private Life?
15 Despotism and the Census
16 Take Not Insults From Campaigns
17 Liberty Yet Lives

Part II: The Left
Section 1: Socialism
18. The New Communism
19. The New Fabians
20. The Violence of Central Planning
21. National Treasures

Section 2: Regulation
22. Regulatory-Industrial Complex
23. The Incredible Stuff Machine
24. Wal-Mart Warms to the State
25. The Trouble With Licensure
26. Illusions of Power

Section 3: The Environment
27. Government Garbage
28. Gross Domestic Bunk
29. My Vice: Hating the Environment

Section 4: Free Trade & Globalization
30. Bastiat Was Right
31. Does World Trade Need World Government?
32. Buy Bethlehem?
33. Why They Hate Us

Section 5: Culture
34. Capitalism and Culture
35. Who’s the American Taliban?
36. Mises On The Family
37. Why Professors Hate the Market

Section 6: Civil Rights
38. How Government Protects Potential Workplace Killers
39. The Trial of Lott
40. The Economics of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Part III: The Right
Section 1: Fascism & The Police State
41. The Reality of Red-State Fascism
42. Which Way for Liberty?
43. Slouching Towards Statism
44. Economic Ignorance
45. Drug War Death Toll
46. Prison Nation
47. Our Kind of Central Planning

Section 2: War
48. False Glory
49. My Speech at the Antiwar Rally
50. Anything for a Buck
51. Was Lenin Right?
52. War and the Economy
53. Iraq and the Democratic Empire
54. Even Conservatives Need the Antiwar Movement
55. The Paulian Foreign Policy Doctrine

Section 3: 9-11
56. What Not To Do
57. Forgotten Victims of 9-11
58. Counterterrorism (by Government) is Impossible
59. An Inevitable Bog
60. The Meaning of Security
61. A Tribute to Trade

Part IV: The Market
Section 1: Capitalism (and Mercantilism)
62. The Millennium’s Great Idea
63. The Legitimacy of Capitalism
64. Art, Faith, and the Marketplace
65. Capitalism and the Burger Wars
66. In Praise of Failure
67. The Blessings of Deflation
68. Are Markets Boring?
69. Do Food Makers Want to Kill You?
70. In Praise of Shoddy Products
71. The Super-Rich Tax Themselves
72. The Steel Ripoff
73. The Bridge of Asses
74. Can the Market Deliver Letters?
75. The Economic Lessons of Bethlehem
76. The Faith of Entrepreneurs

Section 2: Economics & Economists
77. What Economics Is Not
78. Economics: The Weather-Vane Profession
79. Keynes Rules From the Grave
80. Myths of the Mixed Economy
81. A Marxoid “Oops”
82. Still the State’s Greatest Living Enemy

Section 3: Banking & The Business Cycle
83. The Case for the Barbarous Relic
84. Those Bad Old Buttoned-Up Days
85. The Political Business Cycle
86. Y2K and the Banks
87. Bank Privacy Hypocrisy
88. Unplug the Money Machine
89. The Dot-Com Future
90. Blaming Business
91. Define It Away
92. What Made the Next Depression Worse

Section 4: Natural Disasters
93. War on Gougers?
94. Weapon of Mass Creation
95. The State and the Flood

Part V: What To Do
96. The Mal-Intents
97. What We Mean by Decentralization
98. Secede?
99. What Should Freedom Lovers Do?
100. Strategies for the Battle Ahead
101. The United Front Against Liberty
102. The Definition and Defense of Freedom
103. We Need an Angel Like Clarence

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