Walter Block

Kremlintarian, warmonger[1], racist[2], sexist [3] and neo-confederate[4].

• Kremlintarian of the worst type:

“ If there were any justice in the world, Russia never would have entered the [sic] Ukraine. Instead, they would have declared war on all the member nations of NATO, all of them without exception. Thank God that there is no justice in this world. We should thank our lucky stars that Putin is a mensch. ...

No other nation should supply Ukraine with weapons of any type or variety. This country should cease and desist from its attempt join NATO. That mischievous, nasty and malicious organization should be disbanded and salt sowed where once it stood.

— Walter Block[5][6] (On Germany, see: [7][8][9][10][11] etc)

• Academic board member, Ron Paul Infamy for War and Poverty

• Lew Rockwell Cesspool contributor

• “I’m a racist and a sexist”[12]

• Seems unable to get over the fact that the slavers states lost the Civil War:

“ while the Confederate states are still held by the US Colossus ... When and if the US ceases to imprison the Confederacy

— Walter Block, “Let the South Go”[13][14] (an article from 2002, not 1861...)

• “However, I confess, I find “Libertarians for Bernie” intriguing. Were Donald not in the race, I would choose Bernie over any of the other Republican contenders. ”[15] (Bernie Sanders)

• Founder of Libertarians for Trump
  • “if you live in a purple state, don’t vote Libertarian ... Pardon me while I beat my head against the wall. How could libertarians in purple states be so stupid?” “Libertarians Spoil the Election” (archive)
  • Advisory Board Member, “Mises” Caucus [16]
  • Libertarians Should Vote for Trump, 2024 (archive)

• Dr. Block lives in my area, I’ve spoken with him over the years, and he has definitely changed. I’d say not for the better, unfortunately.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/defending-the-undefendable/201101/let-the-south-go

https://www.courthousenews.com/fifth-circuit-revives-libel-case-n-y-times-slavery-quote/

The professor claims the story suggested that he “did not object to chattel slavery” and implied he was racist by stating, “Walter Block, an economics professor at Loyola University in New Orleans who described slavery as ‘not so bad,’ is also highly critical of the Civil Rights Act.”

He says his full statement to the newspaper reads: “Free association is a very important aspect of liberty. It is crucial. Indeed, its lack was the major problem with slavery. The slaves could not quit. They were forced to ‘associate’ with their masters when they would have vastly preferred not to do so. Otherwise, slavery wasn’t so bad. You could pick cotton, sing songs, be fed nice gruel, etc. The only real problem was that this relationship was compulsory.”

Block claims the Times took his quotes out of context and that his statements actually highlighted the importance of free association and condemned slavery because it was involuntary.

—Note also “the libeler” in Defending the Undefendable, sic...

https://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2014/01/walter-block-how-nyt-mischaracterized.html

Slavery

Free association is a very important aspect of liberty. It is crucial. Indeed, its lack was the major problem with slavery. The slaves could not quit. They were forced to “associate” with their masters when they would have vastly preferred not to do so. Otherwise, slavery wasn’t so bad. You could pick cotton, sing songs, be fed nice gruel, etc. The only real problem was that this relationship was compulsory. It violated the law of free association, and that of the slaves’ private property rights in their own persons. The Civil Rights Act of 1964, then, to a much smaller degree of course, made partial slaves of the owners of establishments like Woolworths.

https://archive.lewrockwell.com/block/block219.html

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2014/01/walter-e-block/scurrilous-libelous-venomous/

https://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2014/01/walter-block-how-nyt-mischaracterized.html

Israel

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-moral-duty-to-destroy-hamas-ba626a41

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/01/hans-hermann-hoppe/breaking-up-is-hard-to-do-but-sometimes-necessary/

https://www.meste.org/mest/MEST_Najava/XXIV_Futerman.pdf

https://www.meste.org/mest/MEST_Najava/XXIV_Block_Futerman.pdf

https://mises.org/mises-wire/review-classical-liberal-case-israel

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/10/a_libertarian_wrestles_with_hamas.html

Japan

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/01/hans-hermann-hoppe/breaking-up-is-hard-to-do-but-sometimes-necessary/ How about dropping an atomic bomb on Gaza, then, as the US did about eighty years ago on the civilian population of Hiroshima and Nagasaki as collective punishment for the crimes committed by the Japanese government-gang?

Antisemitism

https://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/permissible-criticize-jews/

Ron Unz https://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/ron-unz-on-the-minimum-wage-law/

See also

• Paleocretins

lol

https://merionwest.com/2024/10/14/continue-to-support-the-mises-institute-at-99/