On-line Chat with Bettina Greaves

	posted by Scott on Saturday June 08, @07:58AM from the news dept.
	This Sunday's (6/9) jointly sponsored MANN/iFeminists on-line chat will feature guest Bettina Greaves. Bettina is a free-market scholar, an expert on Ludwig von Mises, a witness to decades of classical liberal history... Come to ask wide ranging questions. Join us at this link around 9 PM EDT.

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SUNDAY CHAT (Score:1) by Luek on Sunday June 09, @12:42AM EST (#1) (User #358 Info) At first I did not understand just how someone I have not heard of, Bettina Greaves professing the wisdom of someone called Ludwig von Mises would have anything to contribute to eradicating misandry in the body politic. But he is or was a very astute economist who professed a libertarian slant on the misuse of power by the government. Here are a few pertinent quotes from his site: "The prevailing legal and moral views of a time are held not only by those whom they benefit but by those, too, who appear to suffer from them. Their domination is expressed in that fact- that the people from whom they claim sacrifice accept them." (I feel this is a main obstacle confronting us men today. We naively believe the biased laws in child support, domestic violence etc., aimed at us are fair, just and necessary. We have to change this poisonous mind set or we are not going to get anywhere.) "Government is beating into submission, imprisoning, and killing...The authority of man-made law is entirely due to weapons of the constables who enforce obedience to its provisions." "The aim of all struggles for liberty is to keep in bounds the armed defenders of peace, the governors and their constables. The political concept of the individual's freedom means: freedom from arbitrary action on the part of the police power." "The main political problem is how to prevent the police power from becoming tyrannical. This is the meaning of all the struggles for liberty." "The essential characteristic of Western civilization that distinguishes it from the arrested and petrified civilizations of the East was and is its concern for freedom from the state. The history of the West, from the age of the Greek polis down to the present-day resistance to socialism, is essentially the history of the fight for liberty against the encroachments of the officeholders." This sounds like a good overall assessment of the misandry applied by the present day iron heel in suppressing men for political ends and state profit. ---------------Ludwig von Mises…Austrian Economist This just may be a very fruitful Sunday chat. Plan to be there.

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