As members are aware, the PFS had its inaugural, First Annual Meeting in 2006 in Bodrum, Turkey. The presentations for the 2006 and 2007 meetings were not recorded. Starting in 2008, our long-term and founding member Sean Gabb graciously volunteered to record the proceedings, which he did from 2008 to 2011. Most of these were hosted on an early version of Google Video, or on Vimeo. In 2012–13, videos were uploaded to a different vimeo account. So until 2014, recordings of our meetings were scattered in a variety of places.
Starting in 2014, all proceedings have been put up on the PFS Youtube Channel. Professor Hoppe has begun an initiative to move the 2008–2013 PFS recordings to Youtube. We are working with media expert Manuel Lora in this respect. The initial phase of this project should be completed shortly, and then we will gradually roll out these older videos and update and reorganize our records accordingly. We plan to roll these out chronologically, starting with PFS 2008, until we finish with PFS 2013. Stay tuned!
The 2018 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society was held from Thursday, September 13, 2018 (date of arrival) to Tuesday, September 18, 2018 (date of departure), in Bodrum, Turkey, at the Hotel Karia Princess. Those interested in attending future meetings should contact Dr. Hoppe or Mr. Thomas Jacob (jacob@pfs-zurich.ch) (Administrative Secretary/Membership), regarding conditions, availability, and requirements.
From the recently-concluded Twelfth Annual Meeting of the PFS, Bodrum, Turkey (Sept. 14–19, 2017).
For others, see the links in the Program, or the PFS YouTube channel, including the growing PFS 2017 YouTube Playlist. Any additional media of the proceedings will be released in due course.
From the recently-concluded Twelfth Annual Meeting of the PFS, Bodrum, Turkey (Sept. 14–19, 2017).
For others, see the links in the Program, or the PFS YouTube channel, including the growing PFS 2017 YouTube Playlist. Any additional media of the proceedings will be released in due course.
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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