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The following interview, conducted by prominent Mexican journalist Sergio Sarmiento, took place in conjunction with the “Una vida por la libertad” award ceremony in honor of Hans-Hermann Hoppe in Mexico City on October 10, 2024. (Hoppe Receives Caminos de la Libertad “A Life for Freedom” Award.)

Libertad y Propiedad: Hans-Hermann Hoppe habla sobre la esencia del anarcocapitalismo (Freedom and Property: Hans-Hermann Hoppe talks about the essence of anarcho-capitalism)

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Philosopher Hans-Hermann Hoppe reflects on the importance of freedom in an era in which equality is considered a priority for many. For Hoppe, true freedom depends on private property, which allows people to act without restrictions from others. In this conversation, he also explains anarchocapitalism: a society governed solely by private law, without State intervention. Furthermore, it offers a critique of the policies of Javier Milei, who has presented himself as an anarcho-capitalist. Could there really be a society without a State?

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About Natural Order and its Destruction

Below is an edited version of the speech delivered at the 2024 Annual Meeting of the PFS (Sep. 22, 2024).

 

About Natural Order and its Destruction

Hans-Hermann Hoppe [continue reading…]

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Oscar Grau has translated and adapted into Spanish Hoppe’s comments on Javier Milei during the Property and Freedom Society 18th Annual Meeting.

For more Spanish translations, click here.

Javier Milei es un desastre

Adaptación de unos comentarios pronunciados en la reunión anual de la Property and Freedom Society en Bodrum, Turquía, en septiembre de 2024.

Javier Milei se declaró libertario, y no solo libertario, sino anarcocapitalista, que ve el Estado como una organización criminal, que considera los impuestos como un robo y que quiere reducir el Estado a la nada. Esa era su declaración, su programa confeso. Mencionó, especialmente antes de ser elegido, como sus fuentes de inspiración a (1) mi maestro y mentor Murray Rothbard y también (2) a mí mismo. Así que, por eso, me siento con derecho a hacer algunos comentarios sobre este tipo que supuestamente también se ha inspirado en mí. [continue reading…]

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Professor Hoppe was awarded the Caminos de la Libertad “A Life for Freedom” prize at a ceremony 1 in Mexico City, Oct. 10, 2024.

The CEO of Caminos de la Libertad, Ricardo Salinas Pliego, head of Grupo Salinas, is one of the most prominent entrepreneurs in Mexico and Latin America and also a dedicated supporter of libertarian ideals. He actively funds projects aimed at promoting freedom ideas across the country, including think tanks such as Caminos de la Libertad, schools, and a university, among others. Mr. Salinas is closely aligned with the principles of anarcho-capitalism and is an avid reader of Professor Hoppe’s works. [continue reading…]

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Hans-Hermann Hoppe, “Javier Milei” (PFS 2024)

The 2024 Annual Meeting of the PFS (Sept. 19, 2024 to Sept. 24, 2024, Bodrum, Turkey) has recently concluded. Videos and audio for the presented speeches and panels will be provided shortly on the PFS 2024 Youtube Playlist and Property and Freedom Podcast.

Below is a video containing Professor Hans-Hermann Hoppe‘s remarks on Javier Milei, excerpted from the panel discussion “Dürr, Müller, Fusillo, Bagus, Hoppe, Roundtable: What to Make of Milei” (Sat. Sept. 21, 2024).

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Renato Moicano on Hoppe

See Renato Moicano on Hoppe

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Hoppe A Life in Liberty, cover

A Life in Liberty: Liber Amicorum in Honor of Hans-Hermann Hoppe was published today, Sep. 21, 2024, at the 2024 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society, in Bodrum, Turkey. More information and photos from the presentation ceremony here.

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Reviviendo a Occidente | Reviving the West

Oscar Grau has translated into Spanish Hoppe’s Reviving the West (2002). This article is a review of Patrick Buchanan’s book The Death of the West.

For more Spanish translations, click here.

Reviviendo a Occidente

El nuevo libro de Patrick Buchanan, La muerte de Occidente, identifica un problema social de primer orden, y merece el mayor número posible de lectores.

Identificar un problema, aunque sea grande, no es en sí mismo un logro digno de mención. Lo que hace notable la contribución de Buchanan es que identifica un problema que las élites gobernantes nos dicen que no existe, o que no es un problema sino una bendición. En el clima intelectual actual, decir lo que dice Buchanan requiere independencia de mente e incluso valentía. Y el éxito de ventas del libro indica que aún hay muchas personas que conservan el sentido común. [continue reading…]

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Hans-Hermann Hoppe

My Discovery of Human Action and of Mises as a Philosopher

 Human Action Conference, Ludwig von Mises Institute, Auburn, AL

May 16, 2024

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Oscar Grau has translated into Spanish Hoppe’s The War in the Ukraine in Libertarian Perspective (PFS 2023). This essay is based on a speech delivered at the Property and Freedom Society 17th Annual Meeting.

For more Spanish translations, click here.

La guerra en Ucrania desde la perspectiva libertaria

Mi discurso del año pasado aquí en Bodrum sobre el papel de Alemania en la guerra en curso entre Rusia y Ucrania, o mejor y más exactamente, entre Rusia por un lado, y Estados Unidos (EEUU) por el otro, como jefe de la OTAN, sus diversos vasallos europeos y, en particular, Alemania, y Ucrania y los ucranianos como sus apoderados (como sus herramientas prescindibles, idiotas útiles y corderos sacrificables), no ha ido demasiado bien con muchas personas supuestamente libertarias de los antiguos países del llamado bloque del Este. [continue reading…]

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Hans-Hermann Hoppe im Gespraech: Über Denkverbote und andere Merkwürdigkeiten.

Kürzlich besuchte mich im Auftrag von SERVUS TV ein Kamerateam in Bodrum, um mit mir ein Gespraech zum Thema Denkverbote aufzuzeichnen, das anschliessend im Rahmen der Sendereihe PRAGMATICUS Verwendung finden sollte. Tatsaechlich wurden in der Sendung vom 3. Dezember 2023 dann auch knapp 5 Minuten des Videomaterials von insgesamt etwa einer Stunde ausgestrahlt. Nicht zuletzt aufgrund der Qualitaet des Videos erschien es mir freilich geradezu schaendlich, der Öffentlichkeit den gesamten Rest vorzuenthalten. Hier darum das ganze Gespraech im Original. [continue reading…]

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Oscar Grau has translated into Spanish Hoppe’s An Open Letter to Walter E. Block (2024). The article was originally published on LewRockwell.com. This piece was also translated by the Instituto Rothbard from Brazil here.

For more Spanish translations, click here.

Una carta abierta a Walter E. Block

Romper con una persona que conoces hace más de treinta años, con la que has participado en innumerables conferencias y has sido coautor de un par de artículos, aunque solo fuera en un pasado algo lejano, no es nada que se haga a la ligera. Es todavía más difícil si uno comparte con esta persona una posición común como intelectual público y nuestros nombres se mencionan con frecuencia en un mismo aliento como alumnos prominentes del mismo profesor, Murray N. Rothbard, y como luces intelectuales destacadas del movimiento libertario moderno fundado por Rothbard. [continue reading…]

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An Open Letter to Walter E. Block

An Open Letter to Walter E. Block

Breaking up with a person you have known for more than thirty years, with whom you have participated in countless conferences and co-authored a couple of articles, even if only in the somewhat distant past, is nothing done lightly. It is even harder, if one shares with this person a common standing as a public intellectual and both our names are mentioned frequently in one breath as prominent students of the same teacher, Murray N. Rothbard, and as leading intellectual lights of the modern libertarian movement founded by Rothbard.

But then: in this position, it becomes near-imperative to always stay on guard and take notice if a person closely associated with your own name goes astray and falls into serious error, and you may be compelled to publicly distance and dis-associate yourself from this person in order to protect your own personal and intellectual reputation (along with Rothbard’s and that of the entire libertarian intellectual edifice). Such is the case with Walter Block.

Read more at Hans-Hermann Hoppe, “An Open Letter to Walter E. Block,” LewRockwell.com (Jan. 31, 2024). There are already Portuguese and Spanish translations available. Also published as “An Open Letter to Walter E. Block,” Mises Wire (Feb. 1, 2024).

For related material, see Kinsella, Ammous vs. Block on Israel.

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Russian Translation of A Short History of Man

A Russian translation of A Short History of Man: Progress and Decline has been prepared, translated by Mikhail Parfenyuk and edited by Maria Shevyreva. Russian title: Краткая история человечества (PDF). A print version is forthcoming.

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Oscar Grau has translated into Spanish Hoppe’s Natural Order, State, and Looting (2003). The article was originally published on LewRockwell.com.

For more Spanish translations, click here.

El orden natural, el Estado y el saqueo

La experiencia del «cambio de régimen» en Irak plantea cuestiones fundamentales sobre economía política y filosofía. Por ejemplo, el saqueo y  los actos vandálicos ocurridos tras la derrota militar del gobierno de Sadam Huseín en Bagdad se han citado como prueba de la necesidad de un Estado, una refutación viviente de la idea de que un orden natural de propiedad privada puede producir orden en el marco de la libertad.

Esto está lejos de la verdad. [continue reading…]

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Oscar Grau has translated into Spanish Mateusz Machaj’s interview to Hoppe (2004).

For more Spanish translations, click here.

La socialdemocracia de Hayek

Una entrevista de Mateusz Machaj a Hans-Hermann Hoppe publicada en 2004.

  1. ¿Cuál es la contribución de Hayek a la ciencia económica?

De joven, bajo la influencia de su mentor Ludwig von Mises, que en 1927 había creado en Viena un instituto para la investigación del ciclo económico y había nombrado a Hayek su primer director, Hayek hizo un trabajo extremadamente importante elaborando y ampliando a partir de la brillante teoría del ciclo económico de Mises (esbozada por primera vez en su Theory of Money and Credit). Este trabajo demostró que los ciclos de auge y caída no están causados por algunas «contradicciones inherentes» del capitalismo, sino por la expansión inflacionaria del crédito bancario —la inyección de crédito fiduciario (papel) no respaldado por ahorro genuino en el mercado crediticio— engendrada por el banco central del gobierno. [continue reading…]

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Foreword: Legal Foundations of a Free Society

Hans-Hermann Hoppe, “Foreword,” in Stephan Kinsella, Legal Foundations of a Free Society (Houston, Texas: Papinian Press, 2023); also republished as Hans-Hermann Hoppe, “Foreword: Legal Foundations of a Free Society,” Mises Wire (Oct. 24, 2023) and on LewRockwell.com (Nov. 3, 2023). As one commentator noted, “One of the most powerful pieces I ever read.” 1

Foreword: Legal Foundations of a Free Society

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The question as to what is justice and what constitutes a just society is as old as philosophy itself. Indeed, it arises in everyday life even long before any systematic philosophizing is to begin. [continue reading…]

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Italian translation of “The War in the Ukraine in Libertarian Perspective,” LewRockwell.com (PFS 2023; Sept. 28, 2023)

La guerra in Ucraina in una prospettiva libertaria

di HANS HERMANN HOPPE

Il mio discorso dell’anno scorso qui a Bodrum sul ruolo della Germania nella guerra in corso tra Russia e Ucraina, o meglio e più precisamente, tra la Russia da un lato e gli Stati Uniti, in quanto padroni della NATO, dei suoi vari vassalli europei e in particolare della Germania, e l’Ucraina e gli ucraini come loro procuratori, come loro strumenti superflui, utili idioti e agnelli sacrificabili, d’altra parte, non è piaciuto a molte persone apparentemente libertarie degli ex paesi del cosiddetto blocco orientale. [continue reading…]

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On Centralization, Decentralization, and Self-Defense

“On Centralization, Secession and the Problem of Self-Defense” was delivered at the recently-concluded Seventeenth Annual (2023) Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society, Sept. 21-26, 2023. It was also published as Hans-Hermann Hoppe, “On Centralization, Decentralization, and Self-Defense,” LewRockwell.com (Oct. 18, 2023), and also on Mises Wire (Oct. 20, 2023); and has been podcast as PFP268. It has already been translated into Portuguese and Spanish.

The video is below. See also the PFS 2023 Youtube Playlist.

 

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