''Egalitarianism as a Revolt Against Nature and Other Essays'' is a 1974 book by economist

Murray Rothbard Murray Newton Rothbard (; March 2, 1926 – January 7, 1995) was an American economist of the Austrian School, economic historian, political theorist, and activist. Rothbard was a central figure in the 20th-century American libertarian ...

. The book's title comes from the lead essay, which argues that egalitarian theory always results in a politics of

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control because it is founded on revolt against the ontological structure of reality itself. According to Rothbard in this lead essay, statist intellectuals attempt to replace what exists with a Romantic image of an idealized primitive state of nature, an ideal which cannot and should not be achieved, according to Rothbard. The implications of this point are worked out on topics such as market economics, child rights, environmentalism, feminism, foreign policy, redistribution and others.

Publishing history

* Washington, D.C.:

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Press. June 1974. * Auburn, Alabama:

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. 2000. Paperback. .

References

External links

''Egalitarianism as a Revolt Against Nature and Other Essays'' full text PDF file of the Second Edition
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