Property and Freedom Society
| Abbreviation | PFS |
|---|---|
| Motto | Uncompromising intellectual radicalism |
| Formation | 2006 |
| Type | Social theory |
| Location | |
| Website | www.propertyandfreedom.org |
The Property and Freedom Society (PFS) is an Austro-libertarian organization devoted to the promotion of property rights, free trade, anti-empiricism when it comes to economics,[1][2] anti-militarism, anti-egalitarianism, freedom of association, and cultural conservatism.[3] Founded in May 2006 under the stewardship of Hans-Hermann Hoppe, a libertarian theorist and former University of Nevada, Las Vegas Business School professor, PFS presents itself as a more radically libertarian alternative to the Mont Pelerin Society. The PFS holds annual conferences where libertarian and conservative intellectuals deliver speeches and exchange ideas in what Hans-Hermann Hoppe suggests is a "political-correctness-free zone."
Mission
On the fifth anniversary of PFS, Hoppe reflected on its goals:
On the one hand, positively, it was to explain and elucidate the legal, economic, cognitive and cultural requirements and features of a free, state-less natural order.
On the other hand, negatively, it was to unmask the State and showcase it for what it really is: an institution run by gangs of murderers, plunderers, and thieves, surrounded by willing executioners, propagandists, sycophants, crooks, liars, clowns, charlatans, dupes and useful idiots – an institution that dirties and taints everything it touches.[4]
Annual conferences
The Eighth Annual Meeting of PFS was held in Bodrum, Turkey from September 19–24, 2013. Topics on the agenda included "The Myth of American Exceptionalism," and "World War Two Revisited," and "Why are the Jews So Smart?," as well as a presentation on the history of race relations in the United States delivered by white nationalist and segregationist Jared Taylor. PFS Founder Hans-Hermann Hoppe presented his remarks "On the Nature of Man, Truth, and Justice."[5] It featured lectures by LSU law school graduate Stephan Kinsella on the legal structure of an anarchist society; lectures by Hoppe on Rothbardian economics; and discussions on the role of race in America by racialist scientist Richard Lynn and white nationalists Jared Taylor[6] and Richard B. Spencer.[7] Other speakers who have spoken at PFS include: Paul Gottfried,[8] Peter Brimelow,[9] John Derbyshire,[10] and Justin Raimondo.[11] English classical liberal and Libertarian Alliance Director Sean Gabb has spoken at a number of meetings on a variety of topics including the link between conservatism and liberty, the case against the American War of Independence, and the life and politics of Enoch Powell.
The PFS annual meeting explicitly aims to promote discrimination as logical choice, affirming individual responsibility - attracting growing support from intellectuals and entrepreneurs from around the globe due to their purported realisation that there is no practical difference between discrimination and choice. In addition to the formal proceedings of the conferences, there are integrated activities such as a boat trip into the Aegean Sea, excursions to local fishing villages, and firework displays followed by gala nights.[12] The evolution of the nature of the conferences was described in a talk on the History of the Property and Freedom Society in 2015 at the 10th Anniversary Meeting.[13]
References
- ↑ "Hoppe on Falsificationism, empiricism and apriorism"
- ↑ "The difference between the Right and the Left, as Paul Gottfried has often noted, is a fundamental disagreement concerning an empirical question. The Right recognizes, as a matter of fact, the existence of individual human differences and diversities and accepts them as natural, whereas the Left denies the existence of such differences and diversities or tries to explain them away and in any case regards them as something unnatural that must be rectified to establish a natural state of human equality." "Hoppe on political Left and Right"
- ↑ "History and Principles." Property and Freedom Society
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