No, it won t stop bullets. It won t keep people from ripping off your property. It won t even stop the government from putting you in a concentration camp, or executing you. About the only thing a natural right will stop is enlightened thinking on the ethics of liberty. Once you ve read The Myth of Natural Rights and Other Essays, you ll be able to put those imaginary protectors of freedom back in the museums where they belong. Libertarian scholars have had a difficult time being taken seriously in intellectual circles. There s a good reason for this. While they have gained recognition and acclaim for their staunch defense of the free market, compelling advocacy of civil liberties and devastating condemnation of interventionism, their stubborn reliance on the ancient myth of natural rights leaves them in philosophical disrepute. The doctrine of natural rights has persisted among libertarians, because there has never been a systematic and thorough critique of all it implies. Until now. In one compact work, L.A. Rollins shatters the myth of natural rights, while exposing the bleeding-heart libertarians that promote it. With careful research and ample documentation, he shows that thinkers like Ayn Rand, Murray Rothbard, Tibor Machan and Samuel Konkin not only violate reason and logic in their defense of natural rights, but also violate the standards they set for themselves. Back in print for the first time in years, this newly revised edition features an insightful introduction by the Stirnerite-libertarian upstart,TGGP, along with a new afterword by the author. Bonus material includes an updated selection of splenetic jeu de mots from the underground classic, Lucifer s Lexicon, as well as Rollins never-before-published writings on poetic insurrection, the Holy Qur an and Holocaust revisionism.

The Myth of Natural Rights and Other Essays

L. A. Rollins

Nine-Banded Books

Dictionary, akin to Ambrose Bierce's "The Devil's Dictionary," with satirical and individualistic definitions that should appeal to most libertarians (although they too, are skewered). Rollins has producing these definitions for years with some appearing in his magazine "Invictus." 135 pages.

Lucifer's Lexicon

Religion & Spirituality

Loompanics Unltd

George H. Smith once described The Myth of Natural Rights as "a scathing, all-out attack." This was not hyperbole. First published in 1983 by Loompanics Unlimited, L.A. Rollins' incisive monograph sought not merely to dethrone the doctrine of natural law that had come to dominate libertarian discourse, but to upend the very foundations of moral philosophy. Describing himself as an "amoralist" and an "egoist of sorts," Rollins echoed Stirner alone in his insouciant refusal to genuflect before the pieties of intellectual fashion. While few readers would embrace Rollins' intractable moral skepticism, his short book struck a powerful chord. As the text was discussed in marginal periodicals, it gathered an almost scandalous aura, eliciting both approbation and excoriation for its lacerating critique of natural rights theory--particularly as exposited by such libertarian luminaries as Murray Rothbard, Tibor Machan and Ayn Rand. In 1985, The Myth of Natural Rights would become a central exhibit in a spirited debate that spanned several issues of Samuel Edward Konkin III's New Libertarian magazine. The forum included contributions by Robert LeFevre, Murray Rothbard, Sidney E. Parker and Robert Anton Wilson, along with a reply by L.A. Rollins himself. Although Rollins' engagement with the libertarian cognoscenti would soon come to an end, the dam had broken. This definitive reissue features a new publishers preface and has been supplemented to include all of the relevant essays that originally appeared in New Libertarian, along with extant commentaries and rejoinders by L.A. Rollins.

The Myth of Natural Rights: Expanded and Revised

Politics & Social Sciences

Murray Rothbard

Robert LeFevre

Jeff Riggenbach

George H. Smith

robert-anton-wilson

S.E. Parker

T.G.G.P.

Kevin I. Slaughter

Samuel E. Konkin

Philosophy

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