40 years ago in reason.

• Author: Rothbard, Murray N.
• Position: Citings - Murray N. Rothbard on dictatorship and David Levy on libertarianism - Brief article - Quotation

"It matters very little, then, who runs collectivism or Big Government; the important point is the existence of masive statist institutions, which can be readily adapted to whichever group takes power, and hence to the control ling and repressing of the subject pop lation."

--Murray N. Rothbard, "The Reign of Dictatorships"

"Libertarians who are no doubt accustomed to meeting their ideas in caricature have probably been told that in a libertarian world--one with private streets, private mass transit, private utilities of all descriptions, private ownership of redwood trees and alligators--everything would have an...