A Strategy for the Austrian School | Per Bylund

Recorded in St. Petersburg, Florida, on October 22, 2021. Video begins at 1:50.

The weekend revolves around a discussion of strategy. Nearly 25 years ago, Professor Hans-Hermann Hoppe delivered his famous "What Must Be Done" speech on the pressing topic of how—and whether—to engage the state. Today his prescription for a bottom-up ideological revolution beginning at the local level rings more true than ever. With Hoppe's admonitions in mind, all of our speakers and panels will consider three vital questions: Where are we? How Bad is it? And what should we do now?

[supersam]

The truth is never mainstream. If Austrian economics favored politicians and other crooks it would be in government schools . People who are searching will find it .

[ntippy]

One of the best talks from this event. Do not skip.

[tensortab]

You can't argue with logic and reason against positions held through faith.

[jackv]

The Austrian School and Libertarians in general haven't done enough because they are essentially acted as indirect controlled opposition of both the left and the right who are essentially homogenized and operating as one. So what will be the direction of the Austrian School in the Libertarians in general as we are rapidly being transitions back to the plantation? Is there a plan, or we going to continue this conversation in part 2 when we are actually in the plantations?

[tonysparapani]

I think we keep the principals and theories take the best of mises libertarians an max graphics Hollywood level production and salesmanship to sell the ideas with excitement

[albionicamerican]

Too bad Austrian economics isn't real. If Ludwig von Mises had accepted the verdict of the American job market about his value as an academic economist, he would have had to get a real job in the garment trade or something. Instead, when it came to paying his bills, he found a way to work around the market by hooking up with the wealthy ad man Lawrence Fertig, who bribed New York University to give Mises an office and pretend that he held a position there as a "visiting scholar, " or words to that effect. Then Fertig paid Mises a salary out of his own pocket for years.

This bears more than a passing resemblance to the relationship between the unemployable Karl Marx and the wealthy heir Friedrich Engels. Without the market interventions of wealthy men who were willing to subsidize the lives of fringe economists, it's unlikely that we would have both Marxism and Austrian economics now.