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RE: A Reading List for Liberty Lovers, Freethinkers, and Anarchist Initiates (Part 1)

in #anarchy8 years ago

Thanks Sterlin. I am grateful for Steve Thomas's recent release of the audiobook version of Larkens's great work, The Most Dangerous Superstition. Here is the link so that it can be heard, if not read, by others:

http://misesaudiobooks.blogspot.com/2016/09/the-most-dangerous-superstition.html

Please rate the podcast in iTunes! https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/most-dangerous-superstition/id1055730978?i=1000375212041&mt=2

Upon your recommendations, I will look into the other two books, as I have not yet gave them a read .

You state that "Stephan Molyneux is more closely aligned with neoconservatism or fascism". I wonder if Stephan is a modern day Etienne de La Boetie? In Murray Rothbard classic introduction to La Boetie's great political essay "The Politics of Obedience: The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude"; Rothbard says "Certainly it is far from unusual for a young university student, eagerly caught up in a burst of free inquiry, to be a fiery radical, only to settle into a comfortable and respectable conservatism once well entrenched in a career bound to the emoluments of the status quo. But there seems to be more here than that. For the
very abstractness of La Boétie's argument in the Discourse, the
very Renaissance like remoteness of the discussion from the
concrete problems of the France of his day, while universalizing
and radicalizing the theory, also permitted La Boétie, even in his
early days, to divorce theory from practice. It permitted him to
be sincerely radical in the abstract while continuing to be
conservative in the concrete. His almost inevitable shift of
interest from the abstract to concrete problems in his busy career
thereby caused his early radicalism to drop swiftly from sight as
if it had never existed.
But if his abstract method permitted La Boétie to abandon his
radical conclusions rapidly in the concrete realm, it had an
opposite effect on later readers. Its very timelessness made the
work ever available to be applied concretely in a radical manner
to later problems and institutions. And this was precisely the historical fate of La Boétie's Discourse." for those who are unfamiliar with La Botie's work please see the link here for text and audiobook: https://mises.org/library/politics-obedience-discourse-voluntary-servitude