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The Ludwig von Mises Institute  Advancing Austrian Economics,
Liberty, and Peace  Advancing the scholarship of liberty in the
tradition of the Austrian School  Search Mises.org  American
Anarchism  Mises Daily: Wednesday, August 31, 2011 by   [Talk
delivered at the Ludwig von Mises Institute, November 20, 2000.]
Benjamin Tucker (left) and Lysander Spooner (right)  I want to
take a very basic look at one of the traditions that underlies
modern libertarianism — namely, 19th-century individualist
anarchism in America.  Before doing so, however, I want to
define what I mean by modern libertarianism. Namely, the body of
political thought that emerged from and continues to develop
through the synthesis of the best theory from four schools of
thought. The synthesis was accomplished when Murray Rothbard
took the radical antistatism of the individualist anarchists and
wed it with Austrian economics, the foreign policy of the Old
Right (isolationism), an