From “Just War,” by Murray N. Rothbard:
“During my lifetime, my ideological and political activism has focused on opposition to America’s wars, first because I have believed our waging them to be unjust, and, second, because war, in the penetrating phrase of the libertarian Randolph Bourne in World War I, has always been ‘the health of the State,’ an instrument for the aggrandizement of State power over the health, the lives, and the prosperity of their subject citizens and social institutions. Even a just war cannot be entered into lightly; an unjust one must therefore be anathema.”
In a nutshell, this is the theme of my online course on “The Political Economy of War” which begins tonight at 7:15 PM Eastern time. There’s still time to sign up.
8:39 am on September 21, 2010
