The Property and Freedom Society

Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 290.

Bonus podcast episode: Professor Hoppe’s speech, The Ludwig von Mises Memorial Lecture presented at the Mises Institute’s Austrian Economics Research Conference (Fri., March 21, 2025; see Considerations and Reflections of a Veteran Reactionary Libertarian). The transcript is available at Hoppe, Considerations and Reflections of a Veteran Reactionary Libertarian (AERC 2025). In this speech, Professor Hoppe also talked a bit about what he was planning to do in in his PFS 2025 talk later in the year, “Democratic Peace and Re-Education: the German Experience,” 2025 Annual Meeting, Property and Freedom Society, Bodrum, Turkey (Sep. 20, 2025).

Note Professor Hoppe extensively comments on the reaction to his previous criticism of Milei; see Hans-Hermann Hoppe, “Javier Milei” (PFS 2024); Hoppe, “What To Make of Milei,” LewRockwell.com (Oct. 3, 2024); and Kristoffer Mousten Hansen, “Hoppe versus Milei on Central Banking: Breaking Down the Differences,” Mises Wire (Feb. 6, 2025).

He also discusses various other matters, such as the funding of the Frankfurt School by Felix Weil and its influence on Western Europe and on America (and its connection to “wokeism”); US worldwide hegemony since WWII and NATO provocations of Russia after the fall of the USSR, and its role in provoking the Russia-Ukraine conflict; the US role in the Israel-Hamas conflict and the influence of Israel over US policy and the dangerous alliance of the US and American “exceptionalism” paired with Israel’s “Chosen People” image.

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A Chinese translation of The Great Fiction: Property, Economy, Society, and the Politics of Decline (Laissez Faire Books, 2012; second revised edition, Mises Institute, 2021), is now available in a Chinese translation as 自由社会的法律根基 (Feb. 2025) (pdf).

The book was translated by Li San (李三) of the Mises Translation and Compilation Society (米塞斯编译社译丛), a group dedicated to translating and editing the classic works of the Austrian School.

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Stephan Kinsella, Legal Foundations of a Free Society (Houston, Texas: Papinian Press, 2023) is now available in a Chinese translation as 自由社会的法律根基 (Feb. 2025) (pdf) (previous draft mentioned here).

The book was translated by Li San (李三) of the Mises Translation and Compilation Society (米塞斯编译社译丛), a group dedicated to translating and editing the classic works of the Austrian School.

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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 289.

This panel discussion is from the 18th annual 2024 Annual Meeting of the PFS (Sept. 19–24, 2024, Bodrum, Turkey).

Ammous, Polleit, Hoppe, Kinsella, Hülsmann, Discussion, Q&A.

See also Ammous, Polleit, Hoppe, Kinsella, Hülsmann, Discussion, Q&A.

Other talks appear on the Property and Freedom Podcast. Other videos may also be found at the PFS 2024 Youtube Playlist.

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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 288.

This talk is from the 18th annual 2024 Annual Meeting of the PFS (Sept. 19–24, 2024, Bodrum, Turkey).

Hans-Hermann Hoppe (Germany/Turkey): “About Natural Order and its Destruction”.

See also  “About Natural Order and its Destruction”

Other talks to follow in due course here on the Property and Freedom Podcast. Other videos may also be found at the PFS 2024 Youtube Playlist.

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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 287.

This talk is from the 18th annual 2024 Annual Meeting of the PFS (Sept. 19–24, 2024, Bodrum, Turkey).

Thorsten Polleit (Germany): “Immanuel Kant’s ‘Enlightenment’—One of the Sharpest Weapons for the Libertarian Fight”.

See also “Immanuel Kant’s ‘Enlightenment’—One of the Sharpest Weapons for the Libertarian Fight”.

Other talks to follow in due course here on the Property and Freedom Podcast. Other videos may also be found at the PFS 2024 Youtube Playlist.

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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 286.

This talk is from the 18th annual 2024 Annual Meeting of the PFS (Sept. 19–24, 2024, Bodrum, Turkey).

Jörg Guido Hülsmann (Germany/France): “Coercive Democracy: A Critique”.

See also Jörg Guido Hülsmann (Germany/France): “Coercive Democracy: A Critique”.

Other talks to follow in due course here on the Property and Freedom Podcast. Other videos may also be found at the PFS 2024 Youtube Playlist.

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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 285.

This talk is from the 18th annual 2024 Annual Meeting of the PFS (Sept. 19–24, 2024, Bodrum, Turkey).

Stephan Kinsella (USA): “Abortion: A Radically Decentralist Approach”

See also Stephan Kinsella (USA): “Abortion: A Radically Decentralist Approach”

Other talks to follow in due course here on the Property and Freedom Podcast. Other videos may also be found at the PFS 2024 Youtube Playlist.

Panel discussion:

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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 284.

This talk is from the 18th annual 2024 Annual Meeting of the PFS (Sept. 19–24, 2024, Bodrum, Turkey).

Saifedean Ammous (Palestine/Jordan): “Can the Real Interest Rate Fall to Zero? What would that Imply?”

See also Saifedean Ammous (Palestine/Jordan): “Can the Real Interest Rate Fall to Zero? What would that Imply?”

Other talks to follow in due course here on the Property and Freedom Podcast. Other videos may also be found at the PFS 2024 Youtube Playlist.

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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 283.

This talk is from the 18th annual 2024 Annual Meeting of the PFS (Sept. 19–24, 2024, Bodrum, Turkey).

Müller, Dürr, Deist, Gabb, Hoppe, Discussion, Q&A

See also Müller, Dürr, Deist, Gabb, Hoppe, Discussion, Q&A

Other talks to follow in due course here on the Property and Freedom Podcast. Other videos may also be found at the PFS 2024 Youtube Playlist.

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PFS 2025, the Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society, hosted by Drs. Gülçin & Hans Hoppe, was held in Bodrum, Turkey, at the Hotel Karia Princess from Thursday, September 18, 2025 to Tuesday, September 23, 2025. This was the nineteenth annual meeting of the PFS held over a nineteen year period, starting in 2006 (the 2020 meeting was canceled due to covid restrictions).

Those interested in obtaining an invitation to future meetings of our exclusive annual salon should write to the PFS secretary Mr. Thomas Jacob (jacob@pfs-zurich.ch) (Administrative Secretary/Membership), regarding conditions, availability, and requirements. For information about previous annual meetings, see here, the PFS Youtube channel and the Property and Freedom Podcast.

The list of speakers and topics for the 2025 Annual Meeting follows. The presentations and panels below may be found at the PFS 2025 Youtube Playlist and will be released in forthcoming weeks on the Property and Freedom Podcast.

A video from the Gala and group photo. Other pictures are below.

Thursday, September 18, 2025

arrivals and registration

Dinner (pool area)

Friday, September 19, 2025

• Gülçin Imre Hoppe (Turkey) & Hans-Hermann Hoppe (Germany/Turkey): Welcome and Introductions [PFP295]
• Sean Gabb (England): Roman Law and Contractual Slavery [Sebastian Wang, “Roman Slavery: Horror and Paradox – Sean Gabb in Bodrum,” Libertarian Alliance [UK] Blog (Sep. 20, 2025)] [PFP296]
• Stephan Kinsella (USA): “Where The Common Law Goes Wrong” [KOL474 | Where The Common Law Goes Wrong (PFS 2025); Sebastian Wang, “Stephan Kinsella on the Common Law: Lessons from Bodrum 2025,” Libertarian Alliance [UK] Blog (Sep. 19, 2025)] [PFP297]
• Anthony Daniels (Dalrymple) (England): The Worldly Adventures of a Skeptical Doctor
• Alessandro Fusillo (Italy): The Pirates of the Caribbean as Forebears of the Libertarians and of the American Revolution [Sebastian Wang, “Pirates, Liberty, and Revolution: Alessandro Fusillo in Bodrum,” Libertarian Alliance [UK] Blog (Sep. 19, 2025)]
• David Dürr (Switzerland): A Brief History of Swiss Anarchism [Sebastian Wang, “David Dürr on Swiss Anarchism – Property and Freedom Society Bodrum 2025,” Libertarian Alliance [UK] Blog (Sep. 21, 2025)]
• Gabb, Kinsella, Daniels, Fusillo, Dürr, Discussion, Q & A

Book Presentation (Doug French, When Movements Become Rackets) (pool area) [Sebastian Wang, “Douglas E. French’s When Movements Become Rackets: Review of the PFS Trilogy,” Libertarian Alliance [UK] Blog (Sep. 22, 2025)]

Reception and Dinner at the Hotel

Saturday, September 20, 2025

• Thorsten Polleit (Germany): Stanislav Andreski’s Social Sciences as Sorcery (1972): Known Errors, Deceptions and Intellectual Corruption That Endure [Polleit, “Stanislav Andreski’s Social Sciences as Sorcery: Enduring Errors and Academic Corruption – Thorsten Polleit, PFS Bodrum 2025,” Libertarian Alliance [UK] Blog (Sep. 20, 2025)]
• Jeff Deist (USA): Understanding Post-Persuasion America [Sebastian Wang, “Jeff Deist on Post-Persuasion America – PFS Bodrum 2025,” Libertarian Alliance [UK] Blog (Sep. 20, 2025)]
• Guido Hülsmann (Germany/France): The Universities and the State [Sebastian Wang, “Guido Hülsmann on Universities and the State – PFS Bodrum 2025,” Libertarian Alliance [UK] Blog (Sep. 20, 2025)]
• Rahim Taghizadegan (Austria/Switzerland): Bitcoin from the Viewpoint of the Austrian School¹
• Kristoffer Mousten Hansen (Denmark/Germany): Mileinomics [Sebastian Wang, “Javier Milei and the Austrian School – A Critique from Bodrum 2025,” Libertarian Alliance [UK] Blog (Sep. 21, 2025); Kristoffer Mousten Hansen, “Javier Milei and the Austrian School,” Instituto Rothbard (Sep. 26, 2025); idem, “Javier Milei and the Austrian School,” Mises Portugal (Sep. 29, 2025)]
• Hans-Hermann Hoppe (Germany/Turkey): Democratic Peace and Re-Education: the German Experience [based on: On War, Democratic Peace, and Reeducation: The “German Experience” in Reactionary Perspective“; see Sebastian Wang, “Hans-Hermann Hoppe on Democratic Peace and Re-Education – PFS Bodrum 2025,” Libertarian Alliance [UK] Blog (Sep. 20, 2025)]
• Polleit, Deist, Hülsmann, Taghizadegan, Hansen, Hoppe, Discussion, Q & A

Dinner at the Hotel

Sunday, September 21, 2025

• Saifedean Ammous (Palestine/Jordan): Property Rights: The Root Cause of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
• Thomas J. DiLorenzo (USA): “Virtuous” War Crimes: The American and Israeli Traditions [Sebastian Wang, “Tom DiLorenzo on “Virtuous” War Crimes – The American and Israeli Traditions (PFS Bodrum 2025),” Libertarian Alliance [UK] Blog (Sep. 21, 2025)]
• Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Moderator of Speaker Roundtable Discussion: Of Frauds, Fakes, Crooks, Creeps and Clowns
• Ammous, DiLorenzo, Hoppe, Open Discussion, Q & A

Gala Dinner at the Hotel

Monday, September 22, 2025

Gulet Boat Excursion. Swimming. Lunch on the Boat (Walk to the Marina)

Dinner at the Hotel

Commentary/Press

• Juan Fernando Carpio, “PFS 2025: Cozy, Inspiring, Invigorating: My Thoughts on This Year’s PFS Meeting,” Property and Freedom Blog (Oct. 20, 2025)
• Martín Cabrera y Marisa Jarquin, “First Guatemalans at the PFS,” Property and Freedom Blog (Oct. 15, 2025)
• Sebastian Wang, “Bodrum 2025: Reflections on a Journey,” Libertarian Alliance [UK] Blog (Sep. 24, 2025)

Additional photos below. Others from PFS 2025 available at:

• Juan Fernando Carpio, PFS 2025: Cozy, Inspiring, Invigorating: My Thoughts on This Year’s PFS Meeting
• Martín Cabrera y Marisa Jarquin, First Guatemalans at the PFS
• Stephan Kinsella, PFS 2025: Photos and Memories
• Kinsella, Announcing the Universal Principles of Liberty

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About the PFS

The Property and Freedom Society (Facebook; Twitter) was established in May, 2006 at the initiative of world-renowned libertarian philosopher and Austrian economist Hans-Hermann Hoppe. The Inaugural Meeting and subsequent annual meetings have been held at the Hotel Karia Princess in Bodrum, Turkey. Programmes and video of previous presentations are available here.

The PFS is an international society for the promotion of “Austro-Libertarianism,” the economic and social philosophy most prominently represented during the 20th century by the Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises and his leading American student Murray N. Rothbard, and tying back to the 19th century French economists Frederic Bastiat and Gustave de Molinari.

As such, the PFS 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. In the words of Professor Hoppe in 2010, at the Fifth Annual Meeting:

After the first meeting, 5 years ago, here at the Karia Princess, my plan became more specific still. Inspired by the charm of the place and its beautiful garden, I decided to adopt the model of a salon for the Property And Freedom Society and its meetings. The dictionary defines a salon as “a gathering of intellectual, social, political, and cultural elites under the roof of an inspiring hostess or host, partly to amuse one another and partly to refine their taste and increase their knowledge through conversation.” Take the “political” out of this definition—and there you have it what I have tried to accomplish for the last few years, together with Gülcin, my wife and fellow Misesian, without whose support none of this would be possible: to be hostess and host to a grand and extended annual salon, and to make it, with your help, the most attractive and illustrious salon there is. [Video here and streamed below]

For further information, see:

• • • PFS, History and Principles
    • Hoppe, The Property And Freedom Society—Reflections After Five Years, The Libertarian Standard (June 10, 2010)
    • Hoppe, The Role of the Property and Freedom Society in a Crazy World (May 21, 2009, Property and Freedom Society 2009 Annual Meeting Introductory Speech, Bodrum, Turkey)
    • Hans-Hermann Hoppe & Gulcin Imre Hoppe, 2006–2015: PFS, Now and Then
    • Sean Gabb, 10 Years of PFS

PFP046 | Hans-Hermann Hoppe, The Property And Freedom Society—Reflections After Five Years (PFS 2010)

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For further information about the PFS and its previous meetings, see the Press & Offsite Material page, and various articles such as:

• • Thomas DiLorenzo, “The Preeminent Libertarian Meeting of the Year,” LewRockwell.com Blog (Sep. 13, 2025)
  • Doug French, “The Turkish Way,” Mises Wire (Oct. 11, 2022)
    • Stephan Kinsella, “Doug French on “The Turkish Way” (PFS 2022)“
  • Stephan Kinsella, Property, Freedom, and Defiance: PFS 2021 in a Covid World (Oct. 1, 2021)
  • Sean Gabb: The Twelfth Conference of the Property and Freedom Society (PFS 2017) (22 Sept. 2017)
  • X: The Only Conference Worth Attending: A Personal Account of the 11th Conference of the Property & Freedom Society (Sept. 10, 2016)
  • Gabb: Notes from the Eleventh [2016] Conference of the Property and Freedom Society (Sept. 7, 2016)
  • Sean Ring: The Chief Event (Oct. 4, 2012)
  • Andy Duncan: Inside the conspiracy: Property and Freedom Society, Bodrum, Turkey, 2012 (Oct. 3, 2012)
  • Doug French on PFS 2012: The World’s Greatest Haircut (Oct. 2, 2012)
  • Jeff Tucker on PFS 2012: The Center of the Conspiracy (Sep. 29, 2012)
  • June 8, 2011: “Outside the Asylum: Property and Freedom Society, Bodrum, Turkey, 2011,” by Andy Duncan, Cobden Centre (republished as “A Few Days outside the Asylum,” Mises Daily, June 15, 2011)
  • June 17, 2010: “Reflections on the 2010 Conference of the Property and Freedom Society,” by Sean Gabb, Free Life Commentary, Issue Number 194
  • June 16, 2010: “Bodrum Days and Nights: The Fifth Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society: A Partial Report,” Stephan Kinsella, The Libertarian Standard
  • July 4, 2008: “The Third Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society, Bodrum, May 2008: A Brief Record,” Sean Gabb, Free Life Commentary No. 173
  • June 4th 2007: Report on the second PFS conference in Bodrum [local copy], by Rahim Taghizadegan, liberty.li (in German)
  • June 21st 2006: Hoppean Property and Freedom by Doug French, LewRockwell.com
  • June 14th 2006: The Inaugural Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society: An Incidental Record, by Sean Gabb, Free Life Commentary, Issue Number 148

1. For those who complain that some Austrian groups do not give enough attention to, are or even hostile to, bitcoin (see Robert P. Murphy, Bitcoin and the Theory of Money, Mises Wire (04/29/2020); Kinsella, KOL401 | Sazmining Twitter Space: Bitcoin & Property Rights; Bitcoin Confiscation vs. Gold Confiscation; On Coinbase, Bitcoin, Fractional-Reserve Banking, and Irregular Deposits; LIBERTARIAN ANSWER MAN: Smart Contracts), keep in mind that for many years PFS has accepted donations by Bitcoin; we have featured Saifedean Ammous many times, often touching on bitcoin [PFP222 | Saifedean Ammous: Hard Money and Time Preference (PFS 2021)]; years ago Roman Skaskiw was here and gave an informal lecture and handed out cards with $5 worth of bitcoin, as I recall, to attendees (which would be worth $4200 or so today, June 28, 2025; see PFS 2013 Annual Meeting—Speakers and Presentations); Professor Hoppe has never spoken out against it, unlike other Austrians (in fact, see his comments at PFP251 | Van Dun, Hoppe, Dürr, Discussion, Q&A (PFS 2022) and Hoppe on Germany, East and West, Russia/Ukraine, and US-NATO (PFS 2022)]; I spoke on it [KOL274 | Nobody Owns Bitcoin (PFS 2019)]; Šimašius’s comments in [Interview] Libertarian Mayor of Vilnius Speaks!; and so on. [↩]

Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 282.

This talk is from the 18th annual 2024 Annual Meeting of the PFS (Sept. 19–24, 2024, Bodrum, Turkey).

Jeff Deist (USA): “A New Approach to Hoppe’s ‘Open Border Critics'”

See also A New Approach to Hoppe’s ‘Open Border Critics’

Other talks to follow in due course here on the Property and Freedom Podcast. Other videos may also be found at the PFS 2024 Youtube Playlist.

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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 281.

This talk is from the 18th annual 2024 Annual Meeting of the PFS (Sept. 19–24, 2024, Bodrum, Turkey).

Alan Bickley (England): “What is Happening in Britain?”

See also What is Happening in Britain?

Other talks to follow in due course here on the Property and Freedom Podcast. Other videos may also be found at the PFS 2024 Youtube Playlist.

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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 280.

This talk is from the 18th annual 2024 Annual Meeting of the PFS (Sept. 19–24, 2024, Bodrum, Turkey).

Special: Hans-Hermann Hoppe, “Javier Milei” (PFS 2024). This is an excerpt of Professor Hans-Hermann Hoppe‘s remarks on Javier Milei, excerpted from the panel discussion “Dürr, Müller, Fusillo, Bagus, Hoppe, Roundtable: What to Make of Milei” (PFP279).

See also Hans-Hermann Hoppe, “Javier Milei” (PFS 2024); “Who is Hans-Hermann Hoppe, the former inspiration of Javier Milei whom he has now called a ‘libertacrazy liberal,’” La Nacion [Argentina] (12 Dec. 2024).

Other talks to follow in due course here on the Property and Freedom Podcast. Other videos may also be found at the PFS 2024 Youtube Playlist.

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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 279.

This talk is from the 18th annual 2024 Annual Meeting of the PFS (Sept. 19–24, 2024, Bodrum, Turkey).

Dürr, Müller, Fusillo, Bagus, Hoppe, Roundtable: What to Make of Milei.

See also Roundtable: What to Make of Milei; “Who is Hans-Hermann Hoppe, the former inspiration of Javier Milei whom he has now called a ‘libertacrazy liberal,’” La Nacion [Argentina] (12 Dec. 2024).

Other talks to follow in due course here on the Property and Freedom Podcast. Other videos may also be found at the PFS 2024 Youtube Playlist.

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