"We serve the law that we may be free" ~ Cicero

Ridiculous old right wing crank who thinks that the Kaiser, Hero-shite-o and Shilter, weren't all that bad compared to the Allies and is venomous and bitter that America didn't just let them win.

Anyone catch the irony of him stating that selling arms to the “freedom fighters in Afghanistan” is completely unobjectionable. 20,years from the date of this lecture and the USA begins fighting these same freedom fighters in Afghanistan - they stay for 20 years and the USA eventually withdraws, defeated

A true American hero.

Szasz and Laing , what double act.

It speaks loudly about the culture of Washington, DC that this event was so poorly attended. It most certainly hasn’t gotten better since.

As a neo-liberal statist, I disagree

Lincoln evil

Bush Bush evil

LBJ evil

Woodrow Wilson evil

FDR evil

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Thank you as I am so grateful for discovering this gentleman. ❤❤❤❤❤❤

Expansion is more dangerous, is less dangerous in Africa, for who? I think the oppressed would disagree!

The Episcopal Church does have an optional day dedicated to las Casas. My guess is he’s never made it to a permanent place on the calendar because of his controversial advocacy for African slavery. His day is July 18th, the date of his death. Most saints are commemorated on the day of their death.

The stories of Germans coming out of WW2 were highly exaggerated too

1:27 advanced remorse freedom. 1:50, 2:00 2:15 life is most naturally unhappy

Great delivery and straight to the point.

This lecture has more historical facts than any university studies.

All you do is spew propaganda This is literally one of the worst speeches I've ever heard

Moron

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I love t😂❤his kind of lecture, the last fourthy years have seen a lot of new or different views but basicly a lot of historical events are still the same, when it the first 20 years of the 20th Century concerns. Thanks you for this upload

He’s very interesting & I plan to listen to this again. But I have to pose this comment & question: if we had not entered WWII, I think it’s at least possible that Germany could’ve conquered Europe & Russia. Then they would’ve looked toward America and we’d have to defend ourselves. With all of Europe’s resources, we could lose that war. Although Roosevelt was apparently very deceitful about everything, where we be today if Germany had won?

Szasz never defined what he thought "Socialism" nor what "communism" is (to him) Should there be homelessness in a democratic society? Why tie housing to employment when he wants to divorce insurance from employment? And is it a "free" market when it is totally corporate controlledl that bangs away 24/7 using all kinds of PSYCHOLOGICAL persuasion--on PUBLIC airways? As a social critic, I hold szasz as "reactionsry", (ie) anti democracy.

Not paying a penny for "healthcare" ? For the employed majority the employee still has to pay for their insurance-which might/not include co-pay and other insurance fees not covered--there's nothing free about this! Medicare--expensive basic coverage, not to mention what additional insurance fees for what is not covered-- but what you may want. Similar scenario for medicaid. Point is--you always pay! If "healthcare " is separated from employment, but its costs are not government regulated, then only those who can afford it will get it. If people took the pain to take better care of themselves as mature adults and not live as irresponsible children, that would drive down doctor's visits but probably increase costs--without government regulation of price ceilings.

The big problem I see with Szasz's argument is; How to make irresponsible adults into responsible ones? (both abstract and practical)

The massive and inherent flaw in the establishment of american republic is precisely religious liberty. This actually preserves divine and absolute right in contradiction to secular "limited government ", which overtakes the latter in "secular form". This is primarily due to ordinary citizens--from the very beginning of the republic--not being educated in how to live in a democracy. Consequently, america has a adult population unfit to live in a democracy--which it is NOT.

I dont believe in the state but society is the same thing, and i want a united island. And i dont have the relevant materials to hand when i go on a podcast. But chieftains looked out for unfortunates, Rousseau anyone? And bobby sands, god help you and the other peaceful bombers.

Got the numbers wrong on the matter of wealth extraction from India, at least according to recent scholarship.

There’s obviously good points to this, but (as someone from the libertarian-left), i just see the development of the “state-corporate complex” to more so be the blame of the self-indulgent wealthy who purchased the political system than the politicians whom they basically choose themselves at this point. Doesn’t mean the government isn’t incompetent, selfish, etc. But it’s simple self-interests, it’s not always “big business wanting big government”, it’s big business wanting to serve their own selfish interests, which for big business sometimes and often regularly means cutting regulations, cutting taxes, cutting social welfare programs, etc. it’s the particular policies THEY want. You may agree with big business on those 3 points, but I said that to push back against the idea that “the wealthy love socialism”-no, they simply want their self-interests which turns out a horrifying amalgamation of both “socialism” and “capitalism” but is extremely far from both terms in any of their traditional or ideal senses. Take a look at some of Classical Liberal John Stuart Mill’s positions on socialism. He was a serious egalitarian at least later on. But classical liberalism and egalitarianism have large large overlap that is not seen in America. Anyways big business certainly does not want genuinely free markets either. Once they climb to the top, they kick the ladder out underneath them, it’s regular realist power politics. Sry for spam

A quote for the ages . . . "Only government can take a valuable commodity like paper, slap some ink on it, and make it worthless."

I dont like his eepeatinf aaahhs and uns. Very annoting.

Where are my handcuffs........

It really discussed me how can I view the American government was even back then I expect that from European governments But for America and all our "vaulted" believes we have no problem even back then are deceiving our way into another war it is really no wonder we are hated as much as we are

NO WE DONT

Plato’s cave allegory denies the ability of reason to grasp reality? Nietzsche was Platonist? I don’t think in a million years I could come up with a more completely incorrect and confused analysis.

At about 44:00 without having yet listened to the entire discussion: "The only way to be educated is to educate ourselves." Doesn't such a thought lead to making professors, institutions of higher learning, and curricula irrelevant?

Killing people is incidental. So sad

Most ancaps I've met I feel have some kind of undiagnosed autism. It's very clear murray rothbard does.

god i love this guy . . .

"Closest ever came to being a Communist?...I was a Republican"...🤣Great lecture by Ralph Raico...The real never dies, the unreal never lived

How do you spot the narcs in the audience? They're the ones that look like hippies

But we had to get into WWII. Hitler also had plans post Europe. To me what brought Hitler into power were the unsustainable conditions imposed on Germany post WWI. The Great Depression only exacerbated extreme poor conditions in Germany. When people are desperate they. Will take food from tyrants .

This isn’t true this is some Jewish propaganda. Germans let all those troops survive at Dunkirk in hopes of peace treaty. The Germans were backed into a corner. In ww1 & ww2

"A conscious rejection of the Western tradition" - I humbly suggest if we called this 'Anglophobia' there would be less of it.

"If you don't want the treatment for your disease, you are certainly too ill to make the decision." This kind of trap would be funny if it wouldn't be reality.

Too much liberty has led to TRANZ

An interest in explaining SUPERSTITION ,rather than, " religion."