Description: A New Zealand libertarian blog about Austrian economics, organic architecture, romantic realist art, Ayn Rand, Frank Lloyd Wright, Ludwig Von Mises
. . . promoting capitalist acts between consenting adults.
One of the biggest myths about Marx, whose followers were responsible for so much human misery, is the misbegotten notion that the bearded bullshitter was famous in his lifetime. Instead, as Phil Magness has well documented (and summarises for us in this guest post) his fame and hence his later following is simply an accident of history: if some thuggish beret-wearing pseudo-intellectual coffee drinkers hadn't hijacked the Russian Revolution , putting him on the map and elevating him into academic promi
Guest post by Phil Magness