domingo, 25 de abril de 2021
Além da política e do estado
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Voz da liberdade no mundo do colectivismo
Richard Ebeling has a new article on the website of the Future of Freedom Foundation (FFF) on, “Moritz J. Bonn: Classical Liberal Voice in a Collectivist World”:
We are living at a time when the trends seem to be leaning more and more in the direction of greater government control, regulation, redistribution, and planning. This, unfortunately, is part of a movement that has been going on for well over a century, especially beginning in the Great Depression years of the 1930s.
Though seemingly forgotten in our own time, there were a good number of voices who reasonably and forthrightly spoke out against these trends in that earlier period between the two World Wars, in the 1920s and 1930s. One of those articulate voices was the German, free market liberal, Moritz J. Bonn. Well known in both Great Britain and the United States during that era, he responded to the interventionist and collectivist policies in his own homeland of Germany and in other places. Forced to leave Germany in 1933 with the rise of Nazism to power, Bonn was a friend of Ludwig von Mises and a colleague of F.A. Hayek at the London School of Economics after leaving Germany and before moving to America; he was considered an authority on colonialism and imperialism.
In my article this week, I highlight Bonn’s classical liberal criticisms of, for instance, the government policies during the Great Depression, in which he explained that the depth and duration of the depression was mostly due to political interference with prices, wages and competition through various forms of government regulation and restrictive planning. And how this was exacerbated by government-imposed protectionist barriers to freedom of trade
He also strongly defended the ethics and efficiency of markets and the competitive process against those who insisted that “capitalism” was unjust and pandering to the lowest values in society. Instead, he focused on the dynamism of liberal capitalism in fostering not only innovation and material improvements in the human condition, but facilitated wider avenues for cultural betterment and choice as well.
Moritz J. Bonn is a classical liberal, free market voice from the period of the 1920s and 1930s and 1940s who still has much to tell us in understanding the importance of competitive capitalism and the dangers from the heavy hand of interventionist and centrally planning government. Insights, that are still relevant today in the face of the latest trends in a more collectivist direction.
sábado, 24 de abril de 2021
Esquerda
A esquerda sem dúvida nenhuma representa o que há de mais degradante, perverso, deplorável, maligno e iníquo que existe no mundo.
De fato, analisar os terríveis e aflitivos impactos horripilantes que políticas de esquerda causam no mundo real é muito importante, para entendermos a severidade da desgraça que eles representam.
Socialismo
A história do socialismo é uma história de violência, brutalidade, opressão e terrorismo de estado institucionalizado sem precedentes na história humana. Quase quarenta países no mundo sofreram com essa ideologia brutal, hostil, funesta e terrivelmente sanguinária, que foi responsável pela morte de milhões de pessoas.
Infelizmente, nunca faltarão idiotas úteis para acreditar nas fábulas socialistas e nos discursos enferrujados de ideólogos populistas oportunistas, que na verdade são movidos unicamente por uma insaciável e ensandecida obsessão por poder e controle.
Cospaia
People often think that the lack of a government and the lack of laws would create some kind of Mad Max Society, where people would savagely kill each other. Hollywood certainly helped to shape our thinking about how the abstention of some authority would lead us to total chaos, after all, they have been making a lot of movies with themes such as the wild west since the beginning of the twentieth century. I am sorry to disappoint you, but the wild west was not that wild. Perhaps in another article I will talk about the Wild West not being Wild. In this article I will talk about something older and in the old continent.
Before the nineteenth century, before the unification of Italy, in this same region, there were several small countries that existed for several centuries as sovereign nations, such as the Kingdom of Sicily, the Kingdom of Sardinia, the Republic of Genoa, the Republic of Venice, the Papal States, the Republic of Florence and some other realms. But this article is about the little Republic of Cospaia, a small nation that could be considered an example of an Anarcho-Capitalist society. The history of this nation would probably surprise a lot of people, as it was nothing like Mad Max.
The little nation between the Papal States and the Republic of Florence had no government, no laws, no police, no prison, no taxes and it existed for nearly four centuries, 386 years, to be precise, from 1440 to 1826.
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Anarquia e a natureza humana
Surely we have reached peak podcast? 4 hours and 25 minutes! — you read that right— of yammering about human nature and rights. Enormous topics about which one could read an actual book in 4 hours.. Who would actually listen to this? Yaron Brook is some kind of objectivist and “Lex Friedman” appears to have materialized from the ether of YouTube. Please please please don’t get you philosophy, history, ethics, econ, etc. from podcasts.
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