The PFS started releasing past speeches via the Property and Freedom Podcast in December 2021, starting with the available audio from the first PFS Annual Meeting in 2006, and proceeding forward until we catch up to the 2021 meeting. Because of the large number of past recorded talks and panel discussions (234 as of the conclusion of PFS 2021, to be exact), we started releasing episodes 5 times a week.
Starting 8 Aug. 2022, we will release remaining episodes from 2018, 2019, and 2021 (2020 was canceled due to Covid restrictions), once per week, on Mondays, and then will release the 2022 episodes, starting June 12, 2023, once a week as well. For subsequent PFS meetings we will release all recorded sessions on the PFS Youtube channel (Odysee backup channel) shortly after the meeting, and will release the audio on the PFP podcast feed weekly.
Any suggestions or comments as to this approach are welcome, in the comments, or email me at nskinsella@gmail.com.
This bonus talk from the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society is an interview conducted on site during the meeting: Interview with Stephan Kinsella—Private Law in a Libertarian Society (Grosse Freiheit TV).
As noted here, PFS 20, the 2025 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society, will be held from Thursday, September 18, 2025 to Tuesday, September 23, 2025, in Bodrum, Turkey, at the Hotel Karia Princess.
Those interested in attending should contact Dr. Hoppe or Mr. Thomas Jacob (jacob@pfs-zurich.ch) (Administrative Secretary/Membership), regarding conditions, availability, and requirements.
Speakers and topics for previous Annual Meetings may be found here.
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“Property does not exist because there are laws, but laws exist because there is property.” — FrédéricBastiat
“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."
(A more complete statement of our Principles can be found here.)
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