Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 241.
This talk is from the 2022 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Thorsten Polleit (Germany), “Helmut Schelsky’s ‘The Others Do the Work. Class Warfare and the Priesthood Rule of the Intellectuals’ Revisited”. (Portuguese translation)
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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 240.
This panel discussion is from the 2022 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Andreas Tögel (Austria), Doug French (USA), Robert Groezinger (Germany), Daniel Model (Liechtenstein; Model Holding), Sean Gabb (England): Discussion, Q&A.
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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 239.
This talk is from the 2022 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Daniel Model (Liechtenstein; Model Holding), “The Neglect of the Psyche in Governmental Action.”
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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 238.
This talk is from the 2022 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Robert Groezinger (Germany), “Gary North’s Covenantalism as a Contribution to Political Economy.”
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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 237.
This talk is from the 2022 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Andreas Tögel (Austria), “God Created Men and Samuel Colt Made Them Equal: Why Guns in Private Hands Increase Freedom and Security”.
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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 236.
This talk is from the 2022 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Doug French (USA), “How Movements are Turned into Rackets”.
See also Sean Ring, “How Movements are Turned into Rackets,” The Rude Awakening (Sept. 16, 2022).
From the transcript from the panel discussion: PFP240 | Tögel, French, Groezinger, Model, Gabb: Discussion, Q&A (PFS 2022):
For Doug: You said movements turn into rackets. Are there movements that didn’t?
It’s hard to imagine. Even with the best intentions, you’d need angels running these organizations. A wise man once told me, “No tank, no think.” If you want a think tank, you need to raise money, but then money becomes the mission. It’s not too different from the private sector, but in the private sector, people pay directly for a good or service, so it’s not a scam. In nonprofits or politics, you raise money from one group and give it to another, which is always an issue. Your customers aren’t your donors. Only in a private capitalist society does a movement for a good avoid turning into a scam.
So, the PFS isn’t a racket, right?
In the case of PFS, the consumers are the payers, like a private business. That means we’re angels, yes. [Applause] I assume you took that from my comment. The doctors are angels; they only reach out for funds when they have a fabulous product to provide. It’s not like Hans and Gerd are building pyramids in Istanbul or Bodrum for underemployed academics to do deep thinking. We provide funds willingly, enjoy the fruits, and 16 years prove it’s worth it—not a scam. Hopefully, it lasts 16, 32, or 48 more years. How long will you live, since you’re an angel?
I haven’t decided yet.
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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 235.
This talk is from the 2022 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Sean Gabb (England), “Emperor Andronicus I Comnenos (1118–1185)—The Trump of Constantinople”. Slides below (ppt).
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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 234.
This panel discussion is from the 2021 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Daniel Model (Liechtenstein; Model Holding), Stephan Kinsella (Texas), David Dürr (Switzerland), Hans-Hermann Hoppe (Germany/Turkey), Discussion, Q&A.
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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 233.
This talk is from the 2021 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Hans-Hermann Hoppe (Germany/Turkey): The Idea of a Private Law Society: The Case of Karl Ludwig von Haller.
For the paper upon which this speech is based, see The Idea of a Private Law Society: The Case of Karl Ludwig von Haller (PFS 2021).
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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 232.
This talk is from the 2021 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. David Dürr (Switzerland): A Short History of the Swiss Constitution.
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The slides used for the talk are provided below: [continue reading…]
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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 231.
This talk is from the 2021 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Stephan Kinsella (Texas), State Constitutions vs. the Libertarian Private Law Code.
Also podcast as KOL359 | State Constitutions vs. the Libertarian Private Law Code (PFS 2021)
For a similar talk, see KOL345 | Kinsella’s Libertarian “Constitution” or: State Constitutions vs. the Libertarian Private Law Code (PorcFest 2021).
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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 230.
This talk is from the 2021 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Daniel Model (Liechtenstein; Model Holding): An Entrepreneur’s Bureaucratic Encounters.
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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 229.
This panel discussion is from the 2021 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Karl-Peter Schwarz (Austria), Alessandro Fusillo (Italy), Rahim Taghizadegan (Austria), Jeff Deist (USA), Discussion, Q&A.
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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 228.
This talk is from the 2021 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Jeff Deist (USA), After Trump: The Prospects for Soft Secession in America.
An article based on this talk follows: [continue reading…]
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Property and Freedom Podcast, Episode 227.
This talk is from the 2021 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society. Rahim Taghizadegan (Austria), Schooling as State-Making.
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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),
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.” — 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."
(A more complete statement of our Principles can be found here.)
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