Three Cheers for Hoppe; Panel: The Significance of Hans Hermann Hoppe (Video)

Three Cheers for Hoppe

By Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.

“The leftist rag Mother Jones doesn’t like Blake Masters, the Republican nominee for the US Senate from Arizona. It’s no surprise that this magazine would oppose a conservative candidate, but according to the author of the piece, Noah Lanard, Masters is guilty of a terrible sin.

On Election Day in 2005, then–Stanford sophomore Blake Masters sent two emails to the listserv of his vegetarian co-op. In the first, Masters, now the Republican Senate candidate in Arizona, urged classmates to read an article about a California ballot measure ‘[i]f you must worship that miserably peculiar American diety [sic] called Democracy.’ In the second, he put together a reading list that could have easily served as a crash course in anti-democratic libertarianism.

Two of the articles were by Hans-Hermann Hoppe, a German economist best known for his 2001 jeremiad Democracy: The God That Failed. One, a 1995 paper titled ‘The Political Economy of Monarchy and Democracy, and the Idea of a Natural Order,’ argued that ‘the historic transition from monarchy to democracy represents not progress but civilizational decline.’ In addition to advocating ‘the abdication of democracy,’ Hoppe wanted people to accept a ‘natural order’ under which a ‘voluntarily acknowledged ‘natural’ elite—a nobilitas naturalis’ reigns supreme.” See this.

I’m sure that you noticed something is missing. Lanard says, in effect: “Hoppe thinks that monarchy is better than democracy! How evil can you get!” Of course, he doesn’t tell us that Hans prefers an anarcho-capitalist society, one with no state at all, to monarchy. Hans thinks that absolute monarchy is also a stage in the decline of political institutions.”

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Hans-Hermann Hoppe (Hop ah)

Hans-Hermann Hoppe is hated by many on the Left. That is one of the many reasons I agree with him. People on the Left have no clue of what money or inflation are nor do they understand the evils of inflation. (People on the right also do not understand what is stated in the previous sentence.) But the primary reason is that he is brilliant, and can take ridicule easily but also can be fierce. He taught at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) with Murray N. Rothbard, and was a student of Rothbard on almost a daily basis. He lives outside the U.S. now.

Information about Hoppe:

Mises Institute bio

The Property and Freedom Society

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The Political Economy of Hans-Hermann Hoppe; Infighting, Hypocrisy--2022 Midterms; How Monarchs Became Servants of the State; The Queen is Dead, Democracy is Dying; Setting the Table for Famine