Let's Catch Freedom! #32: Rothbard Day 2014

2 March 2014

DaBuDa (lower area), 1000 Ljubljana

Admission was free for all participants.

Murray Newton Rothbard, born in 1926 in New York, USA, was a philosopher and economist of the Austrian school. Rothbard was the founder and leading thinker of anarcho-capitalism, an unwavering supporter of historical revisionism, and a central figure of the American libertarian or classical liberal movement in the 20th century.

On Rothbard Day 2014, a short presentation by Murray Rothbard, prepared by Svetilnik's sympathiser Marko Žerjal, was followed by a round table on the topic "Society without a State", where Marko Pavlišič (National Assembly), Tibor Rutar (Initiative for Democratic Socialism), and Marko Žerjal (self-employed person) discussed the role of the state in society and sought answers to the following questions:

• Could a society without a state function and be just?

• What is the nature and role of taxation and its impact on the individual?

• What is the connection between the individual and the community?

• Does the state encourage or inhibit solidarity between people?
  What are the pitfalls of ensuring the protection of human rights and freedoms in a democracy?

The round table was moderated by Andreja Kokalj.