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Hoppe, “The Property And Freedom Society—Reflections After Five Years” (PFS 2010)

by Stephan Kinsella on December 1, 2015

Professor Hoppe’s speech, “The Property And Freedom Society—Reflections After Five Years,” was delivered June 4, 2010, at the Fifth Annual Meeting of the PFS. Video is embedded below. A text version was published at LewRockwell.com, and also at VDARE (The Property And Freedom Society—Reflections After Five Years, June 9, 2010) and The Libertarian Standard (The Property And Freedom Society—Reflections After Five Years, June 10, 2010). It is available also in a Spanish translation: La Sociedad “Propiedad y Libertad”–Reflexiones después de cinco años).

See also Professor Hoppe’s On Democracy, De-Civilization, and the Quest for a New Counterculture (LewRockwell.com, September 28, 2015).

PFS 2010 – Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Welcoming Remarks. The PFS – After Five Years from Sean Gabb on Vimeo.

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“Property does not exist because there are laws, but laws exist because there is property.” — Frédéric Bastiat

“Because the concept of property, for instance, is so basic that everyone seems to have some immediate understanding of it, most people never think about it carefully and can, as a consequence, produce at best a very vague definition. But starting from imprecisely stated or assumed definitions and building a complex network of thought upon them can lead only to intellectual disaster. For the original imprecisions and loopholes will then pervade and distort everything derived from them. To avoid this, the concept of property must first be clarified.” —Hans-Hermann Hoppe, TSC, ch. 2

The Property and Freedom Society (PFS; Facebook) stands for an uncompromising intellectual radicalism: for justly acquired private property, freedom of contract, freedom of association—which logically implies the right to not associate with, or to discriminate against—anyone in one's personal and business relations—and unconditional free trade. It condemns imperialism and militarism and their fomenters, and champions peace. It rejects positivism, relativism, and egalitarianism in any form, whether of "outcome" or "opportunity," and it has an outspoken distaste for politics and politicians. As such it seeks to avoid any association with the policies and proponents of interventionism, which Ludwig von Mises identified in 1946 as the fatal flaw in the plan of the many earlier and contemporary attempts by intellectuals alarmed by the rising tide of socialism and totalitarianism to found an anti-socialist ideological movement. Mises wrote: "What these frightened intellectuals did not comprehend was that all those measures of government interference with business which they advocated are abortive. ... There is no middle way. Either the consumers are supreme or the government."

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