Brazil is in a meltdown: its stock markets are crashing, inflation is over 10%, and huge numbers of people are marching in the street to demand the impeachment of President Dilma Rouseff. And while collectivism runs deep in Brazilian politics and academia, the tide may be turning—some protesters now carry signs demanding “Less Marx, More Mises.”
Jeff Deist talks to Helio Beltrão, President of Mises Institute Brazil, to explain what’s going on.
We need to promote Mises as the anti-Marx.
ReplyDeleteIf these people chose Mises over Marx I'd be surprised. I seriously doubt it's little more than a vocal minority in Brazil. For whatever reason, people prefer to suffer than be free.
ReplyDeleteNobody ever said that fighting for liberty was going to be easy
DeleteI know. Just saying that people prefer tyranny to liberty. Why should Brazil be any different?
DeleteInteresting observation and probably true. If you are suffering under the yoke you can always blame someone else for your situation. If you are free you can't look anywhere else but the mirror.
ReplyDeleteA worldwide intellectual revolution is just around the corner. It should have happened in 2008 but ron paul killed it when he abandoned his presidential run with 7 months of free publicity to go. But it can happen again quickly with clever marketing.
ReplyDeleteRothbard (anarchy) and Hayek (Empiricism) both rejected Mises (minarchy and logic) in different ways.
ReplyDeleteWe need a political Party. These ideas must be presented to the public as an option. That was the idea behind the Misesian Party. If they don't vote for it, they don't vote for it.
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