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[Anonymous No.10315452]

*gets nothing wrong*

[Anonymous No.10315466]

>>10315452
You can say that when you become dictator, Hoppe. When you're just writing it in your un-influential polemical book for mass publication it just comes off as impotent edge.

[Anonymous No.10315488]

>>10315452
>G*rmans
>understanding Liberty

[Anonymous No.10315493]

>>10315488

[Anonymous No.10315516]

>>10315493
Goddamn he doesn't hold back, you'd assume postwar writer with academic credibility would tread lightly

[Anonymous No.10315523]

>>10315493
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Stuart_Mill#On_Liberty_.281859.29

[Anonymous No.10315533]

>>10315523
remember that time JSM spend most of his life in the most thorough, rigorous, and difficult education ever undertaken by a human being, and wrote one of the seminal works in all of political history, but was BTFO by Nietzsche calling him an "English Blockhead"?

[Anonymous No.10315542]

>>10315533
remember when Europe became a shithole because it got stuck in a post-enlightenment rut and the only country in the world that took liberty seriously now owns the fucking solar system?

[Anonymous No.10315640]

>>10315452
"In a covenant concluded among proprietor and community tenants for the purpose of protecting their private property, no such thing as a right to free (unlimited) speech exists, not even to unlimited speech on one's own tenant-property. One may say innumerable things and promote almost any idea under the sun, but naturally no one is permitted to advocate ideas contrary to the very purpose of the covenant of preserving and protecting private property, such as democracy and communism. There can be no tolerance toward democrats and communists in a libertarian social order. They will have to be physically separated and expelled from society. Likewise, in a covenant founded for the purpose of protecting family and kin, there can be no tolerance toward those habitually promoting lifestyles incompatible with this goal. They – the advocates of alternative, non-family and kin-centered lifestyles such as, for instance, individual hedonism, parasitism, nature-environment worship, homosexuality, or communism – will have to be physically removed from society, too, if one is to maintain a libertarian order"

[Anonymous No.10315693]

I still don't understand physical removal. I understand private covenants and I'm totally on board with the idea, but how is it okay to expel people who advocate socialism? What if they aren't living in a covenant where socialist advocacy illegal? They should simply have their own socialist covenants and be excluded from libertarian covenants.

[Anonymous No.10315765]

>>10315452
>>10315493
>>10315516
>Goddamn he doesn't hold back, you'd assume postwar writer with academic credibility would tread lightly
Hoppe is a member of an endangered species: the German thinker that says what he actually thinks.

[Anonymous No.10315784]

>>10315542

On what vessel, of what national origin, do these owners of the solar system presently propose to visit their various properties at will? Of course, it must be a vessel of their own national origin. Is this the case today? And what country is supposed to own the solar system?

[Anonymous No.10315791]

>>10315542
kek

>>10315693
communists advocate for the killing of capitalists, or if not, it is every single time added to their primary demands in no time flat

advocating communism is like holding a gun to someone's head and saying "I havent pulled the trigger yet, so you cant retaliate yet"

[Anonymous No.10315792]

>>10315693

It's almost as if this guy is an autistic German idiot and you should re-evaluate your position.

After all, it's the Germans. The Germans are the literal authors of every big mess of the past century. Don't forget that. Every German theorists' words are to be taken with a flat of salt.