Roman Skaskiw

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Roman Skaskiw http//romaninukraine.com http//ro
manskaskiw.com/blog Ludwig Von Mises
Institute http//mises.org http//mises.org.ua
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Property, Government Democracy
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Who owns your body?
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Austrian School of Economics

• http//mises.org
• http//mises.org.ua

Ludwig Von Mises
Murray Rothbard
Hans Hermann Hoppe
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Summary

• A Theory of Property Rights
• Short Film Philosophy of Liberty
• Democracy
• Anarcho-Capitalism

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Who owns your body?
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Drugs?Prostitution?Selling a kidney?
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Two Methods of Property Ownership

• Homesteading
• Voluntary Exchange

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Public Property

• Violates theory of Property
• Source of Conflict
• Requires Violence

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Two Principles for Privitization

• Return to taxpayers via vouchers
• Homesteading

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Philosophy of Liberty Video
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Democracy!
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Democracy!!!

• President H. W. Bush, 1994 Ultimately, the best
  strategy to ensure our security . . . is to
  support the advance of democracy elsewhere.
  Democracies don't attack each other.
• Margaret Thatcher, 1990 Democracy . . . from
  the United States to the Far East . . . would
  give us the best guarantee of all for security
  because democracies don't go to war with one
  another.
• (American Civil War???)

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Democracy!!!
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Founding Fathers on Democracy

• John Adams Democracy never lasts long. It soon
  wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never
  was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.
• Thomas Jefferson A democracy is nothing more
  than mob rule, where 51 of the people may take
  away the rights of the other 49.
• James Madison Democracies have ever been
  spectacles of turbulence and contention have
  ever been found incompatible with personal
  security or the rights of property and have in
  general been as short in their lives as they have
  been violent in their death.
• James Madison Democracy was the right of the
  people to choose their own tyrant.
• John Quincy Adams The experience of all former
  ages had shown that of all human governments,
  democracy was the most unstable, fluctuating and
  short-lived.

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Quotes about Democracy

• Hyppolyte Taine, Origines de la France
  contemporaine, 1880s One puts in the hands of
  each adult a ballot, and on the back of each
  soldier a knapsack, with what promises of
  massacre and bankruptcy for the Twentieth
  Century.
• Hoffman Nickerson, The Armed Horde, 1793-1939,
  1940

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Democracy vs. Monarchy
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Democracy vs. Monarchy

• Nature of War
• Xenophobic Nationalism
• Selection of leaders
• Long term vs. short term

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The State as a Monopoly on Justice and Force
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Division of Power

• Medieval Germany
• Voting with your feet
• Competition of Justice and Force

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De Soto's Political Economic Philosophy Chart
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Government
Yes
No
Yes

• Private Property Rights

No
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Government
Yes
No
Yes

• Private Property Rights

No
Socialists
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Government
Yes
No
Yes

• Private Property Rights

No
Fascists
Socialists
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Government
Yes
No
Yes

• Private Property Rights

Anarchists
No
Fascists
Socialists
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Government
Yes
No
Yes

• Private Property Rights

Anarcho-Communists
No
Fascists
Socialists
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Government
Yes
No
Classical Liberals
Yes

• Private Property Rights

Anarcho-Communists
No
Fascists
Socialists
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Government
Yes
No
Classical Liberals
Yes

• Private Property Rights

Social Democrats
Anarcho-Communists
No
Fascists
Socialists
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Government
Yes
No
Classical Liberals
Yes

• Private Property Rights

Social Democrats
Anarcho-Communists
No
Fascists
Socialists
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Government
Yes
No
Classical Liberals
Yes

• Private Property Rights

Social Democrats
Anarcho-Communists
No
Fascists
Socialists
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Government
Yes
No
Anarcho-Capitalists
Classical Liberals
Yes

• Private Property Rights

Social Democrats
Anarcho-Communists
No
Fascists
Socialists
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Summary
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Summary

• Self-ownership
• Theory of Property Ownership
• Democracy vs. Division of Power
• Consider Private Security and Private Justice