Hans-Hermann Hoppe

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Hans-Hermann Hoppe

Hans-Hermann Hoppe (born 2 September 1949 in Peine, Germany) is an Austrian School economist and anarcho-capitalist philosopher.[1][2] He is professor emeritus of economics at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.[3]

Biography and career

Hoppe studied at Saarland University, Goethe University Frankfurt and the University of Michigan. He received a doctorate in philosophy in 1974 and completed his habilitation in sociology and economics in 1981, both at Goethe University.[2] He taught in Germany and at the Johns Hopkins University center in Bologna, and later worked with Murray Rothbard in the United States.[1]

He is the founder and president of the Property and Freedom Society. Its inaugural meeting took place in Bodrum, Turkey, in May 2006.[4]

Argumentation ethics

Hoppe’s argumentation ethics seeks to justify self-ownership and private property from the presuppositions of argumentative justification.[5] Murphy and Callahan dispute the inference from those presuppositions to general property rights.[6] Kinsella defends the approach.[7]

Anarchism or monarchism

In Democracy: The God That Failed (2001), Hoppe models hereditary monarchy as privately owned government and contrasts it with the temporary control exercised by democratic officeholders. He argues that dynastic control gives rulers a stronger incentive to preserve capital values and consider future returns. His preference for monarchy is conditional on retaining a state; he rejects both forms on economic and ethical grounds. His preferred alternative to both is a society in which competing providers supply law and security without a territorial monopoly or taxation.[8]

"If one must have a state ... then it is economically and ethically advantageous to choose monarchy over democracy."[8]

Jacek Sierpiński argues in a 2016 critique that, even if monarchs have a lower time preference, or a greater concern for future returns, this premise alone does not establish that monarchy violates property rights less than democracy.[9]

Bordertarianism

In his 2002 article on immigration, Hoppe starts from a territory in which all land and access routes are privately owned: movement requires the permission of the relevant owners. He distinguishes a government blocking a visitor whose host has arranged access (forced exclusion) from admitting people whom no resident owner has invited (forced integration). For state-controlled property, he argues that domestic taxpayers are its legitimate owners and recommends checking newcomers for invitations. He adds that an employer’s invitation counts only if the employer bears the full costs of the immigrant’s presence rather than shifting costs onto other owners.[10]

Anthony Gregory and Walter Block accept private owners’ right to exclude, but reject extending it to government immigration controls. In their 2007 reply, they argue that taxpayers’ conflicting preferences cannot be reproduced by a single state admission rule, and that controls also restrict owners who wish to host or employ immigrants.[11]

Marxism

In his 1990 article on Marxist and Austrian class analysis, Hoppe accepts a series of historical theses associated with Marxism while arguing that their explanation should come from the Mises–Rothbard tradition rather than Marxism.[12]

  • “I will do the following in this chapter: First, I will present a series of theses that constitute the hard-core of the Marxist theory of history. I claim that all of them are essentially correct.” Hans-Hermann Hoppe, The Economics and Ethics of Private Property

alt-right

Hoppe’s 2017 Property and Freedom Society speech discusses libertarianism and the alt-right as part of a strategy for political change.[13]

Kremlintarianism

In the Servus TV interview translated into English by Leonhard Paul and published on 16 April 2022, Hoppe advocates neutrality for small states and discusses considering surrender when victory is impossible. He applies this argument to Ukraine and compares the American Civil War with Russia’s war. Separate first-person commentaries criticize his position.[14]

The passage below is from Leonhard Paul’s English translation of a Servus TV interview, published by the Mises Institute on 16 April 2022.[14]

“ Therefore, one must advise small states to pursue a strict policy of neutrality. Of course, they should arm themselves. It should not be without cost to attack them. Nevertheless, if you know there is no chance to win a war against a foreign power, you have to consider surrendering, because you see that only one corrupt gang is exchanged for another corrupt gang. For example, the Ukraine war: It is not the case that Ukraine has been an exemplary democratic Western state. On corruption indices they were worse than Russia. The economic productivity per person in Ukraine is lower than the economic productivity per person in Russia. The leaders in Ukraine are corrupt.

— Hans-Hermann Hoppe[5]

See also:

Clans, tribes and private law

In his 2011 Daily Bell interview, Hoppe proposes a private-law society where clans and tribes have disappeared, while supporting traditional hierarchical structures where they remain and expressing suspicion of attempts to modernize them along Western lines.[15]

The following exchange comes from Hoppe’s interview with The Daily Bell on 27 March 2011, reprinted by the Mises Institute on 13 April 2011.[15]

DAILY BELL: It has been suggested that the only way to reorganize society is via a return to the clans and tribes that characterized Homo sapiens communities for tens of thousands of years. Is it possible that as part of this devolution, clan or tribal justice could be reemphasized?

HOPPE: I don't think that we, in the Western world, can go back to clans and tribes. The modern, democratic state has destroyed clans and tribes and their hierarchical structures, because they stood in the way of the state's drive toward absolute power. With clans and tribes gone, we must try it with the model of a private law-society that I have described. But wherever traditional, hierarchical clan and tribe structures still exist, they should be supported; and attempts to "modernize" "archaic" justice systems along Western lines should be viewed with utmost suspicion.

Helicopters

The controversy concerns Chase Rachels’s book and Hoppe’s foreword.[16]

The original controversy

Chase Rachels’s book

French translations

Portuguese translations

Selected books

Other works

Related texts and translations

Texts, studies, recordings and illustrations

Biography and bibliography

Writings, interviews and speech texts

Studies, defenses and criticism

Translations, editions and broadcasts

Recordings

Book-cover controversy and illustrations

Posts on X

Authored articles and reproduced commentary

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Hans-Hermann Hoppe, “About”.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Mises Institute, “Hans-Hermann Hoppe”.
  3. ↑ UNLV, emeritus faculty directory, PDF page 35.
  4. ↑ Property and Freedom Society, History and Principles; Officers.
  5. ↑ Hoppe, Hans-Hermann. “The Ultimate Justification of the Private Property Ethic.” Liberty 2, no. 1 (September 1988): 20–22.
  6. ↑ Murphy, Robert P., and Gene Callahan. “Hans-Hermann Hoppe’s Argumentation Ethic: A Critique.” Journal of Libertarian Studies 20, no. 2 (2006): 53–64.
  7. ↑ Kinsella, Stephan. “Defending Argumentation Ethics”, revised chapter 7 of Legal Foundations of a Free Society (2023).
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Hoppe, Hans-Hermann. “Introduction to Democracy: The God that Failed”, Mises Institute, 4 December 2001.
  9. ↑ Sierpiński, Jacek. “A Critique of Hans-Hermann Hoppe’s Thesis on Lesser Harmfulness of Monarchy than Democracy”, Res Publica 19, no. 2 (2016): 521–559, abstract.
  10. ↑ Hoppe, Hans-Hermann. “Natural Order, the State, and the Immigration Problem”, Journal of Libertarian Studies 16, no. 1 (Winter 2002): 77–82, 90–92, especially note 23.
  11. ↑ Gregory, Anthony, and Walter Block. “On Immigration: Reply to Hoppe”, Journal of Libertarian Studies 21, no. 3 (Fall 2007): 30–35, 37–38.
  12. ↑ Marxist and Austrian Class Analysis
  13. ↑ Hoppe’s 2017 speech on libertarianism and the alt-right
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 “Hoppe: My Dream Is of a Europe Which Consists of 1,000 Liechtensteins”, editorial note and transcript, 16 April 2022.
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 “The Mind of Hans-Hermann Hoppe”, Mises Daily, 13 April 2011; interview originally published in The Daily Bell, 27 March 2011.
  16. ↑ Clearing Up The Hoppe Foreword Controversy
  17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 Hans-Hermann Hoppe, “Publications”, selected books.
  18. ↑ David Gordon, “Security Without a State”, Mises Review 10, no. 1 (Spring 2004), bibliographic heading identifying the editor and the 2003 edition.
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