IN A CAUSE WHICH WILL TRIUMPH I think it was the late Karl Hess who once referred to Atlas Shrugged as a novel about a General Strike of the creative classes. In his post-Rothbardian phase, Hess sought to blend anarcho-syndicalism, anarcho-capitalism, and general Don't-Tread-On-Me redneckism into a coherent political outlook. That last item is not, come to think of it, a criticism. Anyway, Hess's eclecticism was interesting, but maybe not that workable. Whoever made the remark about a General Strike, it is a nice figure of speech. I am proposing something much more modest. I am calling on my fellow … Continue reading A Call for a General Strike of the Flying Classes