Update:

Hoppe clarifies his views and DENIES that he is a supporter of monarchy:

Loved by the good guys, hated by the bad (Lew Rockwell,  May 20, 2014)

“It favorably contrasts traditional, pre-constitutional monarchies and kings to modern democracies and prime ministers or presidents – a thesis that likely appears only slightly less alien to contemporary Brazilian or Portuguese ears than it does to US-Americans’. But the book is not a defense of monarchy. Rather, it advocates a “withering away” of the state altogether, whether monarchic or democratic, and its successive replacement by a private law society, a “natural order.” And as suitable means to this end it advocates decentralization and secession – highly contentious issues in the history especially also of Brazil. ”

So there’s that.  I plan to keep an open mind.  It’s also possible, after all, that  Mr. Hoppe might not know the uses to which his thinking could be put.

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…..is not his views about gays, Hindus, communists, or anyone else.

Hoppe is right that there is no liberty, unless one is free to associate with whomever one chooses.

However…

1.  One is not free to take tax-money (as he does, being addicted to the public academic trough) from people of all sorts of persuasions (gays, Hindus etc.)…. and then advocate secession from their embrace, WITHOUT COMPENSATION.

2. One is a hypocrite of quite a high order to make a living from an institution that one regularly denounces as untenable and immoral (Block and Hoppe both work for public institutions and always have).

Gary North, to give him credit, at least has his money where his mouth is – he makes his living in the private sector.

3. Hoppe’s arguments (argumentation ethics and IP socialism) are just bad, as I’ve shown on my blog, admittedly in a piecemeal fashion, but, hey, I don’t think they’re worth rebutting,, since they’ve been rebutted many, many times by fine scholars in the field. Google it.

4. Hoppe’s arguments about gays and time-preference are plain wrong, no matter where you stand on homosexuals.  The idea that gays don’t save as much as heteros is laughable, as anyone who’s had gay friends would know.

Your average upstanding hetero  with “the full catastrophe” of wife and kids, in Zorba’s immortal words, has no “time preference” at all.

He’s a consumption addict, not because of his sexuality, alas, but because of government-real estate industry propaganda.

So, the real source of distorted time preferences is not sexuality, perverse or otherwise, but ADVERTISING and PROPAGANDA, the first of which will certainly not disappear in Hoppe’s corporate-worshiping vision.

I could go on…but why bother?

Hoppe looks to me to be a front man for a strange mix of white nationalists who’ve renounced their brethren and bought their way into media acceptability by teaming up with left-libs in a marriage of convenience so strange its gives them laryngitis on a number of things….(sigh)

The fact is corporations act just like states, and, in the absence of states, will manufacture their own legitimacy – which is where Mr. Hoppe comes in.

Mr. Hoppe looks to me to be about manufacturing legitimacy for absolute monarchy.

I suspect his is the first toe in the water. In a few years, with the coming of the suitable member of the British royalty – now intermarried with the Rothschilds, who claim, British-Israelite fashion, to be the true heirs to the throne of David   ….we will know how many pieces of silver….or gold…were involved in this particular betrayal of conscience.