Review of Lew Rockwell’s “Against the Left”
Since the election of Barack Obama to the presidency in 2008, the Democratic Party, as well as liberalism and progressivism in general, has moved increasingly leftward. The election of Donald Trump to the presidency in 2016 has accelerated and intensified this leftward move.
The socialist and statist ideals of Democrats, liberals, and progressives are well known: collectivism, paternalism, abortion on demand (at taxpayer expense for low-income women), the transgender movement, feminism, social justice, economic egalitarianism, larger and more intrusive government, organized labor, increased government regulation of the economy and society, public education, government-mandated employee benefits, environmentalism, climate change, an ever-increasing minimum wage, anti-discrimination laws, affirmative action, welfare, higher taxes on “the rich,” income-transfer programs, wealth-redistribution schemes, and the championing of every alternative lifestyle known to man.
Thank God for the recent publication of an antidote to the evils of leftist ideology: Against the Left: A Rothbardian Libertarianism. This may very well be the most radical, politically incorrect book that you will read this year — or perhaps that you have ever read.
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