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Podcast: The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast
Episode: Libertarian Apologists for Putin
Description: In this episode of New Ideal Live, Onkar Ghate and Nikos Sotirakopoulos discuss the libertarian support for Putin and other authoritarian regimes. They explore the libertarian movement's decades-long sympathy for evil regimes, its anti-state, anti-American foreign policy, and how the movement's rejection of morality has led to sanctioning tyrants.
Among the topics covered:
Recent libertarian defenses of authoritarian regimes;
How these libertarians are primarily anti-state, not pro-liberty;
Murray Rothbard as the spokesman of the libertarian movement's anti-state, anti-American foreign policy;
Rothbard's positive view of dictatorships as flowing from his rejection of morality;
Altruism — not imperialism — as the cause of the US e...