Dmitry Chernikov’s Blog

In a free society neither the rich nor the less-rich nor the poor are privileged in their standing with the law. There are no special duties with which one class is burdened toward another. Each person’s relationships with everyone else are symmetric: Bill is to Jim as Jim is to Bill. The amount of wealth [...]

Rothbard writes: “In the old days, we reviled the Nazis for their doctrine of collective guilt; now we embrace the same Nazi concept as a vital feature of our ethical system. For confining guilt to specific criminals would not do, because it would not fit with what Joe Sobran has brilliantly called our doctrine of [...]

Cohen accepts the proposition “every person has a right to pursue self-interest to some reasonable extent.” (Rescuing Justice and Equality, 61, italics removed) But, he says, “a modest right of self-interest seems insufficient to justify the range of inequality, the extremes of wealth and poverty, that actually obtain in the society under discussion.” First of [...]