Glenn Beck is a Neocon (Not a Libertarian)

I don't know that Glenn knows what he is...

The Left The Right and the State

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Category:	Books
Genre:	Nonfiction
Author:	Llewellyn H.Rockwell

Lew Rockwell's new manifesto is a clarion call—creative and thought-provoking on every page—for a principled liberty in our time. There are very few books in which you can open up any page and immediately find a quotable and inspiring passage that will make you think hard, laugh out loud, or see things a completely new way. This is certainly one of them.

He covers every topic related to economics and politics, from the business cycle, to trade, to the drug war, to environmentalism. His central thesis is that the threat to liberty comes from both the left and the right, and that neither really offers a consistent way out. The real problem is much deeper than either the right or the left recognizes. It is the institution of the state itself, which everyone seems to want to use to his own philosophical advantage.

The problem, he writes, is that not that we have chosen the wrong flavor of public policy but that we have public policy at all. All forms of policy—decisions made by state institutions that affect the uses of private property according to political priorities—amount to invasions of liberty. Relentlessly moving from left-wing to right-wing and back to left-wing policy is not progress; it means continued movement down the road to serfdom.

http://mises.org/store/Left-The-Right-and-The-State-The-P550.aspx
http://www.lewrockwell.com/

Discourse on Voluntary Servitude

Rating:	★★★★★
Category:	Books
Genre:	Nonfiction
Author:	ÉTIENNE DE LA BOÉTIE,

Discourse on Voluntary Servitude
The Discours sur la servitude volontaire
of
ÉTIENNE DE LA BOÉTIE,
1548
Rendered into English by
HARRY KURZ

[Published under the title
ANTI-DICTATOR]

New York: COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS: 1942.

DEDICATION

COPYRIGHT 1942
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS, NEW YORK
First printing, January, 1942
Second printing, June, 1942
[Copyright not renewed, so now in public domain.]

Foreign agents:
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, Humphrey Milford, Amen House, London, E.G. 4, England,
AND B. I. Building, Nicol Road, Bombay, India

http://www.constitution.org/la_boetie/serv_vol.htm

The Central question is; why do people consent to their own enslavement?
To overcome tyranny and oppression all one must do is withdraw consent and support.
The most important insights gathered from the text are humans are free by nature.
It is also true "in the beginning men submit under constraint and by force; but those who come later obey willingly and without regret". Custom then becomes the first reason for voluntary servitude.
I've found the text heroic in nature and insightful especially for a Black man here in the wilderness of north america