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Ep. 1047 Early Anarchists, from Godwin to Spooner -- What Did They Believe?

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

Politics, Economics, Libertarian, Government, News

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2017

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Rothbardian anarcho-capitalists, who make up a substantial proportion of my audience, are often confused by non-libertarian anarchists, who don't seem like real anarchists to them. These anarchists, in turn, feel the same way about anarcho-capitalists. In this episode, Professor Gerard Casey reviews the thought of some of the key thinkers associated with anarchism.

Show notes for Ep. 1047

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Hello, everybody. Tom Woods here. Jared Casey is back with us again, Professor Emeritus

0:44.4

at University College Dublin. And we're going to be talking once again about his book,

0:49.3

Freedom's Progress, a history of political thought, an immense treatise that you will absolutely enjoy. And in

0:56.2

particular, we're going to talk about anarchism today. We're going to talk about, if we may put

1:00.0

it this way, classical anarchism. We'll talk about some names you've no doubt heard before.

1:05.8

These will not be quite anarcho-capitalists, but there'll be at least one maybe whose ideas will be pretty

1:12.7

darn close to what we would recognize today as a Rothbard version of anarchism. These are

1:18.3

more the kind of people who would later inspire the sorts of folks you encounter on Facebook who

1:24.1

when you say, I'm an anarchist, they say, oh, no, you're not. You believe in

1:27.6

private property. How can you be an anarchist? So these are those sorts of folks. And a lot of our

1:32.6

people have not really studied them in depth, at least not everybody. I mean, some of you

1:37.0

are super studious and everything, but not all of us have. So I thought this would be a good

1:40.5

opportunity to get a sense of what they believe because a lot of listeners

1:45.3

of this show would consider themselves anarchists in the sense that you study economics,

1:50.9

you realize that the market can provide every good that we present to it.

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