{"id":799,"date":"2018-05-31T14:37:38","date_gmt":"2018-05-31T14:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/?p=799"},"modified":"2020-12-10T15:24:24","modified_gmt":"2020-12-10T15:24:24","slug":"criticism-of-murray-rothbard-and-natural-rights-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/2018\/05\/31\/criticism-of-murray-rothbard-and-natural-rights-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Criticism of Murray Rothbard and Natural Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Ritchie in his book <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/naturalrightscri00ritc_0\"><em>Natural Rights: A Criticism of Some Political and Ethical Conceptions<\/em><\/a>, 2d ed. 1903, on p. 65,&nbsp; gives the following description of one kind of anarchism, which he identifies with the French Radicals associated with the French Revolution of 1789.&nbsp; I see no difference between this description and that of Murray Rothbard&#8217;s anarcho-capitalism.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Anarchists are of three kinds. First of all, there is the old-fashioned Radical who repeats the revolutionary creed of 1789 in changed times, to whom an association called a government is an object of suspicion, whilst an association called a joint-stock company is an object of admiration. This old-fashioned Radical does not think himself a survival, but imagines that<br \/>\nhe has the verdict of the newest science on his side.&nbsp; He&nbsp;would abolish legislation, but would leave the judicial functions of government to enforce what he calls natural rights, but what are really the legal and customary rights resulting&nbsp;&nbsp;from ancient legislation or want of legislation. He professes to give every one a fair start, but does not notice that the runners are unequally weighted. He calls himself an individualist, and is only a half-hearted Anarchist. His anarchy is anarchy based on the existing economic structure of society.&nbsp;&nbsp;He believes in Nature, but forgets that it is a Nature that has been operating for ages among human beings. Nature to him really means human society under a completely triumphant&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Manchester_Liberalism\">Manchester School<\/a>.&#8221; He would contribute to the amelioration of the species by abolishing all sanitary legislation, but would perhaps leave the tender-hearted private philanthropist a free hand in encouraging the propagation of beggars in order to give scope to his altruistic sentiments.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Ritchie in his book Natural Rights: A Criticism of Some Political and Ethical Conceptions, 2d ed. 1903, on p. 65,&nbsp; gives the following description of one kind of anarchism, which he identifies with the French Radicals associated with the French Revolution of 1789.&nbsp; I see no difference between this description and that of Murray &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/2018\/05\/31\/criticism-of-murray-rothbard-and-natural-rights-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Criticism of Murray Rothbard and Natural Rights&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bullshit-scholarship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=799"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2860,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799\/revisions\/2860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}