Games of seduction: notes on the past, the present, and the future of libertarianism

Abstract

Libertarianism proclaims respect for individual rights and private property, and in this there is no major difference with the position of the liberal schools, but there is a difference in the size and presence of the State, which is reduced to a minimum. Its influence has been growing in recent years, always ideologically, but not pragmatically, given that in a democracy it would be very difficult to comply with most of its fundamentals. Murray Rothbard’s thought is fundamental to understand libertarian doctrine.