Ep. 1074 Libertarians Have a Class Theory, Too (and It's Better Than Marx's)
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Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 13 January 2018
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
With the idea of class so central to Marxian theory, libertarians might be tempted to ignore class as a category. But there is in fact such a thing as libertarian class theory, because in libertarian theory there are distinct groups of exploiters and exploited. Gary Chartier joins me to discuss the history and development of libertarian class theory.
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| 0:34.3 | Hey, everybody, Tom Woods here. Gary Chartier is with us once again. Gary is Associate |
| 0:39.3 | Dean and Distinguished Professor of Law and Business Ethics at La Sierra University, and he is |
| 0:45.6 | the co-editor of a brand new, very interesting and provocative book called Social Class and |
| 0:50.7 | State Power, Exploring an Alternative Radical Trad tradition. So the book is looking to explore |
| 0:57.7 | the idea of class, but to show that it doesn't have to be tied up in Marxist presuppositions. |
| 1:05.1 | It's actually very important because there is a libertarian theory of class, and that's what |
| 1:10.0 | this book is seeking to explore and develop. |
| 1:13.1 | Gary, welcome back. |
| 1:14.4 | Great to be here, Tom. |
| 1:15.8 | It's been a long time. |
| 1:16.9 | You've got this very interesting book that you co-edited with several other people called |
| 1:20.9 | Social Class and State Power. |
| 1:22.4 | I just gave everybody the whole title. |
| 1:24.9 | Very interesting, and I like this a lot, because I think a lot of folks, maybe even |
| 1:30.0 | especially libertarians, have been under the impression that social class is something that only |
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