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Cliches of Socialism Number 55

“I’m for free enterprise-but!”

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Letter from Leonard Read to F. A. Hayek October 9, 1974 by Leonard E. Read
Letter from Leonard E. Read to F. A. Hayek October 9, 1974, where Read Congratulates Hayek on his Nobel Prize win.

On Freedom and Free Enterprise by Mary Sennholz
A remarkable collection of original essays by F. A. Hayek, William Rappard, Bertrand de Jouvenal, Wilhelm Röpke, Henry Hazlitt, Leonard Read, Faustino Ballvé, W.H. Hutt, Murray Rothbard, Jacques Rueff, among others.

Leviathan At War by Edmund A. Opitz
The anthology contains many classic and provocative writings, including Daniel Webster’s “Conscription,” Mark Twain’s “War Prayer,” Leonard Read’s “Conscience on the Battlefield,” Ayn Rand’s “The Roots of War,” Edmund Opitz’s “Concerning War and Peace,” and Ludwig von Mises’s “The Economics of War.”

Ayn Rand on Finding Intellectuals by Ayn Rand
In this letter to Leonard Read, Ayn Rand expresses her views on what an intellectual is and how important it is for organizations like FEE to recruit and promote them. [Disclaimer: The content of this letter does not necessarily reflect the opinions of FEE's staff, supporters or associates.]

Cliches of Socialism Number 9 by Paul L. Poirot
“Man is born for cooperation, not competition” or “The idols of the marketplace must yield to those of humanity.”

One Comment »

  1. What a crock of ett. lol.

    It’s one thing to spin a yarn. It is quite another to rewrite history to fulfill your own self-serving world-view.If Crockett were alive today, he most certainly would not be a Libertarian. While he argued for individual responsibility, he also spent most of his adult life fighting the Progressive fight for his community.

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