Murray N. Rothbard/“Late Rothbard” Myth

Different bow tie, same racism.

Contrary to the “Late Rothbard” Myth, racism, historical revisionism (lies or errors about world history when convenient) and praise for authoritarians have been an issue with Murray N. Rothbard his whole life, not only in his “late” years.

“Late Rothbard” Myth

• Born: 1926

• “Students for Strom Thurmond”, 1948 (segregationist)

• “Review of The Origins of the Second World War”, 1962 (pro-nazi: “Hitler was put in the wrong in the eyes of Europe and the world, when he was eminently in the right, and all because the British refused to pursue its goal of rational appeasement quickly and single-mindedly”)

• Letter to Harry Elmer Barnes, 1966 (segregationist, “we’d get the Negroes off our backs!!!”)

• “Revisionism for Our Time”, 1966 (revisionist)

• “Ernesto Che Guevara, RIP”, 1967 (tankie, Ernesto Che Guevara)

• “Harry Elmer Barnes, RIP”, 1968 (praise for Holocaust denier Harry Elmer Barnes: “a cause for which Harry fought and suffered all of his life: the cause of peace and justice and historical truth”)

• “The Panthers And Black Liberation”, 1969 (segregationist)

• “The Soviet Bogeyman”, 1973 (revisionist, tankie, Stalin)

• “A Soviet Foreign Policy: A Revisionist Perspective”, 1978 (revisionist, tankie)

• “Pat Buchanan and the Menace of Anti-Anti-Semitism”, December 1990 (Pat Buchanan, downplaying antisemitism: “The real menace is organized Anti-Anti-Semitism.”)

• “For President: Pat Buchanan”, 1992 (populist, Pat Buchanan)

• “Right-Wing Populism: A Strategy for the Paleo Movement”, 1992 (populist, David Duke, “unleash the cops”)

• Died: 1995

See also

• Murray N. Rothbard/Winter War

• Murray N. Rothbard/Antisemitism and Holocaust denial

• Murray N. Rothbard/Racism

• Murray N. Rothbard/Revisionism