For a New Liberty
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For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto (1973; second edition 1978; third edition 1985) is a book by American economist and historian
Summary
Rothbard advocates anarcho-capitalism, a strain of stateless
The core of libertarianism, writes Rothbard, is the
Rothbard attempts to dispel the notion that libertarianism constitutes a sect or offshoot of liberalism or conservatism, or that its seemingly right-wing opinions on economic policy and left-wing opinions on social and foreign policy are contradictory.
Reception
The Objectivist author Peter Schwartz criticized the views Rothbard expounded in For a New Liberty, writing that like other libertarians, Rothbard cared about neither "the pursuit of freedom nor the exercise of reason" and supported only "the extermination of government and the inculcation of anti-state hostility." Schwartz maintained that Rothbard wrongly viewed the state as "by nature criminal."[1] Libertarian author Tom G. Palmer commented in 1997 that For a New Liberty "provides a good overview of the libertarian worldview, although the chapters on public policy issues and on the organized libertarian movement are by now somewhat dated."[2] Libertarian author David Boaz writes that For a New Liberty, together with Robert Nozick's Anarchy, State, and Utopia (1974) and Ayn Rand's essays on political philosophy, "defined the 'hard-core' version of modern libertarianism, which essentially restated Spencer's law of equal freedom: Individuals have the right to do whatever they want to do, so long as they respect the equal rights of others."[3] British philosopher Ted Honderich writes that Rothbard's anarcho-libertarianism informed "one messianic part of the New Right".[4]
In
Publishing history
In 2006 the
- English
- Collier Macmillan. 1973. Hardcover. ISBN 0-02-605300-4
- Revised edition, Collier Books, 1978. Paperback
- ISBN 0-930073-02-9
- University Press of America. Paperback. 1986. ISBN 0-8191-4981-0
- ISBN 0-930073-02-9
- ISBN 0-945466-47-1
- Spanish
- Hacia una Nueva Libertad: El Manifiesto Libertario. Grito Sagrado. 2006. Paperback. ISBN 987-1239-01-7
- Italian
- 1996 Per una nuova libertà. Liberilibri, Macerata. 1996. Paperback.
- 2004 Per una nuova libertà. Liberilibri, Macerata. 2004. Paperback. ISBN 88-85140-27-0
- Portuguese
- Por Uma Nova Liberdade O Manifesto Libertário. Instituto Ludwig von Mises do Brasil. 2013. Paperback. ISBN 978-85-8119-060-0
- Ukrainian
- Ротбард, Мюрей. До нової свободи. Лібертаріанський маніфест / пер. з англ. Олександр Гросман, ред. Володимир Золотарьов, К. : К. І. С., 2022. — 427 c. Paperback. ISBN 978-617-684-270-5
References
- ^ Schwartz, Peter (1986). Libertarianism: The Perversion of Liberty. New York, New York: The Intellectual Activist. pp. 4, 63.
- ISBN 0-684-84767-1.
- ISBN 0-684-84768-X.
- ISBN 0-7453-2129-1.
- ISBN 978-1-58648-350-0.