PoliticalNightmare
16th October 2010, 13:17
According to Mises, Spanish Anarchists introduced the death penalty for using money during the 1936 Revolution. This isn't true, surely?
EDIT -
Cheers, fellahs. I didn't think it was true, somehow.
Also, it was Rothbard, not Mises, my apologies.
Here is the exact quote:
It is no wonder therefore that the term "anarchism" has received a bad press. The leading anarchists, particularly in Europe, have always been of the left-wing variety, and today the anarchists are exclusively in the left-wing camp. Add to that the tradition of revolutionary violence stemming from European conditions, and it is little wonder that anarchism is discredited. Anarchism was politically very powerful in Spain, and during the Spanish Civil War, anarchists established communes and collectives wielding coercive authority. One of their first steps was to abolish the use of money on the pain of a death penalty. It is obvious that the supposed anarchist hatred of coercion had gone very much awry. The reason was the insoluble contradiction between the antistate and the antiproperty tenets of left-wing anarchy.
And here is the source: http://mises.org/daily/2801
What a load of bull. To think I was prepared to consider Rothbard an intellectual and to actually read his works with an open mind, forgetting our political differences. The whole time I was reading that article I was finding myself face palming without even thinking about it.
EDIT -
Cheers, fellahs. I didn't think it was true, somehow.
Also, it was Rothbard, not Mises, my apologies.
Here is the exact quote:
It is no wonder therefore that the term "anarchism" has received a bad press. The leading anarchists, particularly in Europe, have always been of the left-wing variety, and today the anarchists are exclusively in the left-wing camp. Add to that the tradition of revolutionary violence stemming from European conditions, and it is little wonder that anarchism is discredited. Anarchism was politically very powerful in Spain, and during the Spanish Civil War, anarchists established communes and collectives wielding coercive authority. One of their first steps was to abolish the use of money on the pain of a death penalty. It is obvious that the supposed anarchist hatred of coercion had gone very much awry. The reason was the insoluble contradiction between the antistate and the antiproperty tenets of left-wing anarchy.
And here is the source: http://mises.org/daily/2801
What a load of bull. To think I was prepared to consider Rothbard an intellectual and to actually read his works with an open mind, forgetting our political differences. The whole time I was reading that article I was finding myself face palming without even thinking about it.