Showing posts with label non-aggression axiom. Show all posts
Showing posts with label non-aggression axiom. Show all posts

2007/01/06

Quote: Libertarianism

"The libertarian creed rests upon one central axiom: that no man or group of men may aggress against the person or property of anyone else. This may be called the 'nonaggression axiom.' 'Aggression' is defined as the initiation of the use or threat of physical violence against the person or property of anyone else. Aggression is therefore synony­mous with invasion."

Murray N. Rothbard, For a New Liberty. The Libertarian Manifesto

The quote above is from chapter 2: "Property and Exchange".

The whole book can be read at:
http://www.mises.org/rothbard/newlibertywhole.asp
or
http://www.mises.org/rothbard/foranewlb.pdf (pdf version)

Polski przekład drugiego
rozdziału "Manifestu libertariańskiego":
http://www.mises.org.pl/o-nowa-wolnosc-manifest-libertarianski/rozdzial-2/