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Thus, he has devoted his time and financial resources,
as well as his evidently inexhaustible intellectual energy, to our ideas
throughout his adult life. His devotion has shown itself in the seeking out and
cultivation of younger scholars; in the publication of his own libertarian
journals, Left and Right and now Libertarian Forum; in his commitment to
the burgeoning Libertarian Party; and in his creation with friends and
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There is also the aspect of Murray the man that one might term a kind of oldfashioned bohemianism, a sort of proud down-at-the-heels-ness, bringing to
mind earlier New York Jewish intellectuals such as Frank Chodorov and Paul
Goodman. Image meant less than nothing to this sort of man. He was, after
all, about more important business. The meaning of life is the struggle for the
Good Cause who has time for nonsense about "image," or worrying about
what people will think of you? Such men, of course, are the salt of the earth.
Now, naturally, one cannot agree with everything that Murray writes and
says (I, for instance, disagree with him on women's liberation). But that has
no effect on what he has done and is.
He is a man of great achievement and immense scholarship; an indefatigable
worker; a political theorist of a very high order indeed, with a genius for
synthesis and discerning the big picture; the most significant living anarchist
writer; the most significant name in the whole noble history of individualist
anarchism; and, all in all in my opinion and in the opinion of a number of
others from the viewpoint of the prospects for human liberty quite simply
the most important intellectual in the world today.
Happy birthday, Murray.
Reprinted from Mises.org.
June 4, 2010
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