Economic theory has nothing to say as to what commodity will acquire the status of money. Historically, it happened to be gold. But if the physical makeup of our world would have been different or is to become different from… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
“The traditional, correct pre-Marxist view on exploitation was that of radical laissez-faire liberalism as espoused by, for instance, Charles Comte and Charles Dunoyer. According to them, antagonistic interests do not exist between capitalists, as owners of factors of production, and… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
An expropriating property protector (the state, through taxation) is a contradiction in terms — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
If an agency is the ultimate judge in every case of conflict, then it is also judge in all conflicts involving itself. Consequently, instead… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
It is states that are responsible for the deaths of hundreds of millions of people and immeasurable destruction in the 20th century alone. Compared… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
“However, not only external expansion of state power is brought about by the ideology of nationalism. War as the natural outgrowth of nationalism is… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
The state operates in a legal vacuum. There exists no contract between the state and its citizens. — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
No, the state is anything but the result of a contract! No one with even just an ounce of common sense would agree to… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
“First, with the establishment of a state and territorially defined state borders, “immigration” takes on an entirely new meaning. In a natural order, immigration… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
More paper money cannot make a society richer, of course — it is just more printed paper. Otherwise, why is it that there are… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
“In accordance with his high time preference, he may want to be a vagabond, a drifter, a drunkard, a junkie, a daydreamer, or simply… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
What is true, just, and beautiful is not determined by popular vote. The masses everywhere are ignorant, short-sighted, motivated by envy, and easy to… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
The state spends much time and effort persuading the public that it is not really what it is and that the consequences of its… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
Thanks to the central bank, most ‘monetary experts’ and ‘leading macro-economists’ can, by putting them on the payroll, be turned into government propagandists ‘explaining,’… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
