Mises Wire
Author:
Roderick T. Long
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Edmund Burke always claimed that his 1756 defense of anarchism, A Vindication of Natural Society , was intended satirically, and most Burke scholars have agreed. In a 1958 article , Murray Rothbard argued that Burke’s youthful anarchism was sincere, and that his later repudiation was politically motivated. But few Burke specialists were swayed.