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I was a leftist NYU Professor. But when I said the Left was unhinged, colleagues called me a Nazi, the administration tried to cancel me, and the university treated me to my own personal gulag. I soon became a civil, then later an Austrian School economic libertarian. I’ve been unmasking Marxism, the woke mob, and their elite puppet masters ever since.
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Ludwig von Mises, Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis, trans. J. Kahane (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1951).
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Mises, Socialism, pp. 283, 288.
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Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Democracy the God That Failed: The Economics and Politics of Monarchy, Democracy, and Natural Order (New Brunswick and London: Transaction Publishers, 2001), pp. 187–220.
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Rectenwald, M. (2023). From Leftism to Liberty, a Personal Journey. In: Cavallo, J.A., Block, W.E. (eds) Libertarian Autobiographies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-29608-6_60
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