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The Tom Woods Show

Ep. 1001 Rothbard on Strategy: Need We Abandon Principle to Be Successful?

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

Politics, Economics, Libertarian, Government, News

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2017

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

One group of libertarians accuses a second group of being sellouts. The second group accuses the first group of being purists who make any progress toward the free society possible.
 
Murray N. Rothbard, known in his day as Mr. Libertarian, had something to say about this and other questions of strategy.
 

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0:00.0

The Tom Woods Show, episode 1001.

0:03.4

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0:08.0

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0:14.5

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0:23.8

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0:25.2

Check it out at harries.com slash woods.

0:28.7

Hey, everybody, Tom Woods here.

0:29.8

Yes, I can count.

0:31.6

Yes, I know this is supposed to be episode 1,000, but I'm coping the best I can with the fact that we had to postpone the live event for episode 1,000, but I'm coping the best I can with the fact that we had to postpone the live

0:39.7

event for episode 1,000 to September 30th. So now what am I going to do? Not put out episodes?

0:45.3

You're going to tell a bird not to fly? Of course I'm going to keep putting out episodes,

0:48.8

but I cannot put out episode 1,000. Episode 1,000 is going to be created on September 30th before a live audience.

0:56.6

So then we'll go back and insert episode 1,000. Otherwise, what are I going to do?

0:59.9

Do like a glum episode 1,000 about, woe is me. I was supposed to be with all my friends on stage for episode 1,000.

1:08.4

But here I am in my crummy house or whatever. I mean, I'm not doing that.

1:12.8

We're just not going to do episode 1,000 until we get to the live event. So we're just going on.

1:19.6

We're moving on with our lives, you know? If you're worried about episode 1,000, you're living in the

1:23.4

past, man. We've moved on, okay? Or I don't know, maybe, I don't know what time area you're living

1:28.7

in, because we are going to do episode 1,000 in the future. We'll cross that bridge when we come to it.

1:33.1

Right now, we are on episode 1001, baby. And today we're going to talk about Murray Rothbard and his

1:40.9

case for radical idealism. This is an article that I will link to at tomwoods.com slash what?

1:47.4

What number is that going to be?

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