Abstract: Is authoritarian power ever legitimate? The contemporary political theory literature—which largely conceptualizes legitimacy in terms of democracy or basic rights—would seem to suggest no…
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Ludwig von Mises’s Socialism: A Still Timely Case Against Marx
Mises thought that socialism needed a comprehensive refutation, covering not just the failures of economic planning, but socialism’s analysis of history, its theory of monopoly, the relevance of classes, and its ethics.