Murray Rothbard Quotes
The majority must be persuaded by ideology that their government is good, wise and, at least, inevitable, and certainly better than other conceivable alternatives. Promoting this ideology among the people is the vital social task of the 'intellectuals.'
Rothbard, Murray N. For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto. Macmillan, 1973, p. 55.
The non foundationalist school of political philosophy rejects the classic view (See Lincoln {585516}) that politics must rest on a philosophical basis. It argues that in the United States somewhat, and in Europe in particular, politics operates in the modern world without the kind of philosophical basis and grounding that Western politics used to have.
Not the phrase “ideological rule”. He is not referring to an ideological ruler of a nation or other political entity. He is referring to the rule that our own ideologies often exercise over our minds. These he observes produce cruelties and receipts. One of the virtues he sees in political activity with a moral bend is that it protects us somewhat from our own ideologies. Among his critics, one weakness they point out that almost all morality itself is ideologically based.
Murray Newton Rothbard was an American heterodox economist of the Austrian School, economic historian and political theorist. Rothbard was the founder and leading theoretician of anarcho-capitalism, a staunch advocate of historical revisionism and a central figure in the 20th-century American libertarian movement. He wrote over twenty books on political theory, revisionist history, economics, and other subjects.
