Memoirs of a Superfluous Man
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| Rating | : | 4.23 (788 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1610160355 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 334 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-02-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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In a spirit of sheer conscious fraud, the State will at any time offer its people “four freedoms,” or six, or any number; but it will never let them have economic freedom. His stories, lessons, observations, and conclusions pack a very powerful punch, so much so that anyone who takes time to read carefully cannot but end up changed in intellectual outlook. Here one comes in sight of the reason why the State will never tolerate the establishment of economic freedom. If it did, it would be signing its own death-warrant, for as Lenin pointed out, “It is nonsense to make any pretense of reconciling the State and liberty.” Our economic system being what it is, and the State being what it is, all the mass verbiage about “the free peoples” and “the free democracies” is merely so much obscene buffoonery. This is truly an American classic. Albert Jay Nock, perhaps the most brilliant American essayist of the 20th century, and certainly among its most important libertarian thinkers, set out to write his autobiography but he ended up doing much more. He presents here a full theory of society, state, economy, and culture, and
JD said An indispensable book for the highly considered life.. Personally, the best book I've read. A most sensible thing, from one of the great minds nature has produced. Contrary to what the title may lead to believe, this is a history of ideas expressed through literature with Mr. Nock's life as merely the vehicle to explore the greatest minds and ideas in recorded history. A warning though --- you will not be able to un-read this book. Or really anything he wrot. Orrin C. Judd said extraordinary. []Nock understood a truth that is nearly unspeakable now, in the wake of the disastrous era of Big Government, that although the West in general pays great obeisance to the idea of Freedom, and America in particular is, at least theoretically, founded upon the primacy of the idea, most people (the mass-men) do not give a fig about it. And since in a democracy the masses will wield power, the prospects fo. Five Stars Made me want to read Latin.