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BK Marcus is an amateur political economist with no formal education in the subject.

He works from Charlottesville, Virginia as an editorial consultant for the Ludwig von Mises Institute and managing editor of Mises.org.

He is no longer a house husband, nor a faculty spouse, but he is still a dilettante and a layabout, at least in spirit.

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– Murray Rothbard

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Long on Godwin

March 12th, 2007 by

bkmarcus

Roderick Long says:

“I wouldn’t describe Godwin as an opponent of private property, exactly. His view was that people as a matter of moral duty should voluntarily redistribute the fruits of their labour so as to secure a more equitable meeting of needs. But he thought that individuals in their right of free judgment should have discretion over whether and how to do this, and should be influenced only by public opinion, not force. (Moreover, it was voluntary redistribution, NOT voluntary pooling that he recommended, so he wasn’t even an anarcho-communist.)”

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