Leonard Peikoff on Donald Trump

[Mark]

Leonard Peikoff is not voting for Trump, and defers to Yaron Brook to tell us why.

ARIwatch.com/LeonardPeikoffOnDonaldTrump.htm

 

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

Mark,

I wonder if Brook is a globalist (in general, not as a James Bond villain-like conspiracy) and belongs to a few elitist inner circles who drift in that direction.

I'm serious.

Michael

[Mark]

On 7/13/2016 at 2:13 PM, Michael Stuart Kelly said:

I wonder if Brook is a globalist ... and belongs to a few elitist inner circles who drift in that direction.

Indeed he does, the Mont Pelerin Society.  Milton Friedman was an original member.  Recall that Friedman advised the U.S. government to withhold taxes,  leading to the infamous W2 Form.  It gave people the illusion that they were getting money instead of getting bled.   He also instigated the “earned income tax credit” which is lowering wages.  

This is from Yaron Brook’s entry in Who’s Who on ARIwatch.com:

Member of the Mont Pelerin Society since 2011 and ARI boasts of his membership on its website. The Mont Pelerin Society was founded in 1947 by Friedrich Hayek. Years later, in reaction to what it had become, Hans-Hermann Hoppe founded the Property and Freedom Society. The following is from “The Property and Freedom Society – Reflections After Five Years” by Hans-Hermann Hoppe. He describes the Mont Pelerin Society as it is today:

“... the meetings are dominated and the range of acceptable discourse is delineated by [here begins a long list ending with] ... assorted international educrats and researchocrats in and out of government. No discussion in the hallowed halls of the Mont Pelerin Society of U.S. imperialism or the Bush war crimes, for instance, or of the financial crimes committed by the Federal Reserve Bank ...  Not all of this can be blamed on Hayek ... He had increasingly lost control of the Mont Pelerin Society already long before his death in 1992.”
...
“There had been skepticism concerning the Mont Pelerin Society from the beginning. Ludwig von Mises, Hayek’s teacher and friend, had expressed severe doubt concerning his plan simply in view of Hayek’s initial invitees: how could a society filled with certified state-interventionists promote the goal of a free and prosperous commonwealth?

“Despite his initial reservations, however, Mises became a founding member of the Mont Pelerin Society. Yet his prediction turned out correct. Famously, at an early Mont Pelerin Society meeting, Mises would walk out denouncing speakers and panelists as a bunch of socialists.”

 

 

[syrakusos]

"I do not want to rule the world. I prefer that the world rule me." 

Yes, I know THE PLEDGE… and that's fine for YOU (or *I*) but when it comes to the actual running of the actual world, who do you want?  Mother Theresa or Milton Friedman?  There is no other choice: either self-sacrifice or global capitalism -- take your pick.

 

[Brant Gaede]

3 hours ago, syrakusos said:

"I do not want to rule the world. I prefer that the world rule me." 

Yes, I know THE PLEDGE… and that's fine for YOU (or *I*) but when it comes to the actual running of the actual world, who do you want?  Mother Theresa or Milton Friedman?  There is no other choice: either self-sacrifice or global capitalism -- take your pick.

Neither.

And I don't think you get it.

It's not "the world"--it's your world.

So fuck off Mother T and fuck off Milton.

--Brant

and you're much too binary--that's so 1960s (and Ayn Rand)

while you wait for (the impossibility) of "global capitalism" (WTF is that?)--you're (you would be) self-sacrificing your life away

"take your pick"?--there is no "pick" to take--it's all in your head and nothing in your life, logically speaking--except you aren't speaking logically except off a false premise (you are putting bread on the table--no?)

go back to Rebirth of R and reload

[anthony]

Far as I'm aware, proper laissez-faire, global capitalism would only entail individual businessmen in different countries choosing to make contracts and deal with one another, entirely left to their own devices by their relevant governments. What 'global capitalism' means now (after yonks of international Trade Treaties negotiated between State bureaucrats who have big business in their pockets) is just exported and expanded Statism, a large driver of 'global elitism'.