Rothbard's "Left and Right": Forty Years Later (mises.org)
- Highlight Loc. 66-72 | Added on Saturday, March 24, 2012, 04:48 PM
In an 1848 "Letter to Socialists" Molinari wrote: We are adversaries, and yet the goal which we both pursue is the same. What is the common goal of economists [i.e., classical liberals] and socialists? Is it not a society where the production of all the goods necessary to the maintenance and embellishment of life shall be as abundant as possible, and where the distribution of these same goods among those who have created them through their labor shall be as just as possible? … Only we approach this goal by different paths…. Why do you refuse to follow the path of liberty alongside us? … If you became certain that you had been mistaken as to the true cause of the evils which afflict society and the means of remedying them … you would come over to us.[4]
