hans-hermann hoppe

• bu aralar anarkoları gözden geçiriyordum da galiba anarkoların arasında en akla yatacak şekilde konuşan bu abimiz. (tabii ki anarko kapitalizm hala gözümde peş para etmez bir sistem, o ayrı dava)
  
  democracy kitabının girişinden tarihçilerin verileri değerlendirme şekliyle ilgili şu alıntıyı alma ihtiyacını hissettim;
  
  "while history will play an important role, the following is not the work of a historian, however, but of a political economist and philoso-pher. there are no new or unfamiliar data presented. rather, insofar as a claim to originality is made, it is that the following studies contain new and unfamiliar interpretations of generally known and accepted facts; moreover, that it is the interpretation of facts, rather than the facts them-selves, which are of central concern to the scientist "and the subject of most contention and debate. one may, for instance, readily agree on the fact that in nineteenth-century america average living standards, tax rates, and economic regulations were comparatively low, while in the twentieth century living standards, taxes, and regulations were high. yet were twentieth-century living standards higher because of higher taxes and regulations or despite higher taxes and regulations, i.e., would living standards be even higher if taxes and regulations had remained as low as they had been during the nineteenth century? likewise, one may readily agree that welfare payments and crime rates were low during the 1950s and that both are now comparatively high. yet has crime in-creased because of rising welfare payments or despite them, or have crime and welfare nothing to do with each other and is the relationship be-tween the two phenomena merely coincidental? the facts do not pro-vide an answer to such questions, and no amount of statistical manipulation of data can possibly change this fact. the data of history are logically compatible with any of such rival interpretations, and his-torians, insofar as they are just historians, have no way of deciding in favor of one or the other. "