Hans-Hermann Hoppe

Hans-Hermann Hoppe is Rothbard's intellectual heir and the figure most responsible for sharpening the political-philosophical edge of the modern Austrian school. *A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism* (1989) and *Democracy: The God That Failed* (2001) extend the Misesian-Rothbardian system into a comprehensive critique of the modern democratic state as such — not merely a critique of particular policies but of the political form itself.

Hoppe's **argumentation ethics** is among the most elegant attempts to provide a praxeological foundation for property-rights libertarianism. Whatever one makes of the conclusions, his intellectual lineage to Mises (and through Mises to Menger) is direct: methodological individualism, deductive rigour, and a willingness to follow the argument wherever it leads.

“We are at the brink of an abyss. The whole world is in danger of becoming a single planetary state.”

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