The Nature of Man and His Government
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| Author(s) | Robert LeFevre |
| Country | United States |
| Subject(s) | Politics |
| Genre(s) | Non-fiction |
| Publication date | 1959 |
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| Pages | 87 p. |
| ISBN | 0870040863 |
| OCLC Number | 2457641 |
The Nature of Man and His Government is an essay by American libertarian radio personality Robert LeFevre. The text lays out the author's argument for a purely free society, and made him a leading spokesman for the libertarian position on government and society in the 2nd half of the twentieth century. LeFevre argues that government is in its essence a violation of rights, one that makes life brutal, poor, and short. He demonstrates that no government anywhere has lived up to its basic promises, and calls on all people to contribute to building a new kind of freedom.
See also
- The Market for Liberty
- Chaos Theory
- The Machinery of Freedom
- Property, Freedom, and Society
- The Conscience of an Anarchist
- The Myth of National Defense
- Planned Chaos
Links
- Full Text (HTML) (PDF)
- Introduction by Rose Wilder Lane
- Articles, essays and reviews
- "A Gangster of Our Own" by Gary Galles, March 2009
- by Robert P. Murphy
- "The Possibility of Private Law", August 2005
- "But Wouldn't Warlords Take Over?", July 2005
- "What Are You Calling 'Anarchy'?", April 2005
- "Private Defense Is No Laughing Matter", April 2007
- "Explore the Theory of the Completely Free Society", August 2010
- "Correcting Kinsley on Libertarianism", February 2008
- "Law and Appeals in a Free Society", October 2010
- "Policing for Profit", May 2011
- "Privatizing Air Security", December 2010
- "Should We Love or Loathe the Mafia?", August 2005
- "Anarchy in Somalia", June 2011
- "The Privatization of Public Services" by John L. Chapman, February 2008
- Mises's Vision of the Free Society by Thomas Woods (foreword to Liberalism: In the Classical Tradition)
- "Society without a State" by Murray Rothbard, December 1974
