Review of Bastiat’s “The Law’ — Dedicated to Occupy Wall Street Protests
Full text of The Law available here.
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A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian & the myth of socialist Sweden
In one of the passages I read vilified 19th century robber barons, as if, of all the things in the world, they are what we should fear most. It is outrageous that as we emerge from 20th century which saw well over 100 million murdered by their own governments, we are still be asked to fear 19th century robber barons who committed crimes like lowering the cost of kerosene by 90% so that poor people didn’t have to live in darkness after the sun went down.
Some footnotes:
Interventionism by George Reisman
The Sweden Myth Stefan Karlsson
Swedish Conservatives Bucked the Recession by Lowering Taxes – and Won Re-Election
Stagnating Socialist Sweden by Per Bylund
Free Banking in Sweden (pdf) by Erik Lakomaa
Poorer Than you Think by William L. Anderson
The not so Wild Wild West
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Introduction
Many of my literary friends describe themselves as fervent leftists. Some even believe all great art is (and must inevitably be) produced by people who are similar to them politically. This absurd idea has bothered me since my several-year-old discovery and devotion to libertarianism. I now see literature in a different light. My new website, romansbookreport.com, and corresponding youtube channel is my argument to my former self who accepted without critical thinking the bias of my professors and friends. I begin with Joseph Conrad’s satirical novel “The Secret Agent” which is overtly anti-Marxist and anti-Communism, exposing the hypocrisy and contradiction of those philosophies with all the subtlety and precision of Ludwig Von Mises, who engaged these subjects directly.
I will critique literature which supports ideas of individual liberty, and literature which opposes such ideas. I will also review non-fiction books which have been critical to my devotion to liberty and property rights in the tradition of Ludwig Von Mises, Murray Rothbard, and Hans Hermann Hoppe.
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The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
part 1.
part 2.
part 3.
part 4.
part 5.
consternation
festooned
gabled
obverse
moving with ascetic deliberation
sodden face
the aridity of their hearts
the salving of his conscience
tinged her sallow cheeks
incipient fall
odious
could moon about
sunk in hebetude
moribund veteran
coruscating whirl
taciturn
loquacity
peremptory
apostasy
felicitous expression
indolence
a preternaturally thriving baby
physiognomy
podgy hand
sign of scepticism
timorousness of a child
fidelity
The grief of a good man is august.
recumbent and motionless
somnambulistic gaze
propitious moment
quiescent
punctilious courtesy
like a peripatetic philosopher
exigencies of temperament
meretricious splendor
pinafore
perfidity of a trusted providence
incorrigible
certain of his impunity
his sagacity in this case
then the blind, then the halt, and so on
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