Hans-Hermann Hoppe Having reconstructed the myth of collective security—the myth of the state—and criticized it on theoretical and empirical grounds, I now must take on the task of constructing the positive case for private security and protection. In order to dispel the myth of collective security, it is not just sufficient to grasp the error involved in the idea of a protective state. It is just as important, if not more so, to gain a clear understanding of how the non-stat

Martín Cabrera There are multiple ways in which a state can obtain financing. The primary and most traditional source of revenue is taxes. However, tax revenue can eventually pose a challenge for the state. Indeed, taxes represent a visible extraction of income by the state from its citizens, and therefore, at some point, it will encounter resistance. To overcome this problem, the state resorts to other forms of financing. One of these is public debt. However, very few people

Members of Guate Libre at the PFS Martín Cabrera y Marisa Jarquin The Property and Freedom Society is an organization founded in 2006 by the libertarian philosopher and Austrian School economist Hans-Hermann Hoppe. Every year, Hans Hoppe and his wife Gulçin Imre Hoppe are the excellent hosts of a meeting held at the Hotel Karia Princess in Bodrum, Turkey. This event, highly restrictive and somewhat small, has an enormous impact, and its importance surpasses that of any other