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Money Talks a Realist Constructivist Account of the Motives of 21St Century Plutocrats
Graduate School Master of Science in Global Studies Major: Political Science Course: SIMV07 Term: Spring 2017 Supervisor: Alexander von Hagen-Jamar Money Talks A Realist Constructivist Account of the Motives of 21st Century Plutocrats Author: Pauliina Parviainen Abstract Plutocracy is a subject that has not traditionally attracted the interest of scholars in the disciplines of International Relations and Political Science. This is unfortunate, as the number and importance of affluent private individuals in global affairs has steadily increased in recent decades. Since most existing academic research on contemporary plutocrats focuses on philanthropists and other ‘benefactors’, this research examines what drives the behaviour of the so-called ‘malefactors’ – in this case, enormously wealthy citizens from the Persian Gulf who fund Islamist extremism and the Koch brothers who fight against climate change mitigation efforts and U.S. government regulations. The research is guided by a realist constructivist hypothesis according to which plutocrats use their material assets to advance ideological causes that in the long run further increase their economic wealth. Qualitative content analysis was performed on select texts that dealt with these actors’ presumable and stated motives. The analysis of the Koch brothers suggested that the logic behind their political adventures closely followed this hypothesis. However, the case of Gulf plutocrats only partially confirmed the hypothesis, as ideological and identity-related reasons prevailed over material considerations in these actors’ motives. Keywords: First Image, Koch, Plutocrat, Realist Constructivism, Terrorism Financing Words: 19 952 Contents: 1. Introduction 1 1.1 Research problem and research question 2 1.2 Structure of the thesis 4 2. -
Libertarian Feminism: Can This Marriage Be Saved? Roderick Long Charles Johnson 27 December 2004
Libertarian Feminism: Can This Marriage Be Saved? Roderick Long Charles Johnson 27 December 2004 Let's start with what this essay will do, and what it will not. We are both convinced of, and this essay will take more or less for granted, that the political traditions of libertarianism and feminism are both in the main correct, insightful, and of the first importance in any struggle to build a just, free, and compassionate society. We do not intend to try to justify the import of either tradition on the other's terms, nor prove the correctness or insightfulness of the non- aggression principle, the libertarian critique of state coercion, the reality and pervasiveness of male violence and discrimination against women, or the feminist critique of patriarchy. Those are important conversations to have, but we won't have them here; they are better found in the foundational works that have already been written within the feminist and libertarian traditions. The aim here is not to set down doctrine or refute heresy; it's to get clear on how to reconcile commitments to both libertarianism and feminism—although in reconciling them we may remove some of the reasons that people have had for resisting libertarian or feminist conclusions. Libertarianism and feminism, when they have encountered each other, have most often taken each other for polar opposites. Many 20th century libertarians have dismissed or attacked feminism—when they have addressed it at all—as just another wing of Left-wing statism; many feminists have dismissed or attacked libertarianism—when they have addressed it at all—as either Angry White Male reaction or an extreme faction of the ideology of the liberal capitalist state. -
Conservative Movement
Conservative Movement How did the conservative movement, routed in Barry Goldwater's catastrophic defeat to Lyndon Johnson in the 1964 presidential campaign, return to elect its champion Ronald Reagan just 16 years later? What at first looks like the political comeback of the century becomes, on closer examination, the product of a particular political moment that united an unstable coalition. In the liberal press, conservatives are often portrayed as a monolithic Right Wing. Close up, conservatives are as varied as their counterparts on the Left. Indeed, the circumstances of the late 1980s -- the demise of the Soviet Union, Reagan's legacy, the George H. W. Bush administration -- frayed the coalition of traditional conservatives, libertarian advocates of laissez-faire economics, and Cold War anti- communists first knitted together in the 1950s by William F. Buckley Jr. and the staff of the National Review. The Reagan coalition added to the conservative mix two rather incongruous groups: the religious right, primarily provincial white Protestant fundamentalists and evangelicals from the Sunbelt (defecting from the Democrats since the George Wallace's 1968 presidential campaign); and the neoconservatives, centered in New York and led predominantly by cosmopolitan, secular Jewish intellectuals. Goldwater's campaign in 1964 brought conservatives together for their first national electoral effort since Taft lost the Republican nomination to Eisenhower in 1952. Conservatives shared a distaste for Eisenhower's "modern Republicanism" that largely accepted the welfare state developed by Roosevelt's New Deal and Truman's Fair Deal. Undeterred by Goldwater's defeat, conservative activists regrouped and began developing institutions for the long haul. -
THE LIBERTARIAN REVIEW January 1979 $1.25 There Are Half a Million Men and Women in ~~ Prisons Around the World for the Simple Crime of
THE LIBERTARIAN REVIEW January 1979 $1.25 There are half a million men and women in ~~ prisons around the world for the simple crime of ....... disagreeing with their governments. From South Africa to the Soviet Union, canIieIp&ee........ from Brazil to Korea, authoritarian regimes persist ~ in the barbarian practice of jailing, often torturing, ofconsc:lence·aU their citizens not for anything they've done, but for what they believe. Ihe..-W. These prisoners of conscience have only one hope - that someone outside will care about what is happening to them. Amnesty International has helped free over 14,000 political prisoners by marshaling world public.opinion through international letter-writing campaIgns. Your pen can become a {Jower:ful weapon against repression, injustice and Inhumanity. Join with us today in this important effort. Because if we do not help today's victims, who will help us if we become tomorrow's? Amnesty International 3618 Sacramento San Francisco, 94118 (415) 563-3733 2112 Broadway New Yo'rk, N. Y. 10023 (212) 787-8906 o I would like to join A mnesty International in helping to free prisoners ofconscience. Enclosed are my dues offifteen dollars. o Please send me more information. o Enclosed is my contribution of$ _ to help you in your efforts. name Prepared by Public Media Center. San Francrsco. address city state .zip (Dues and donationS are tax-deductible) TDE LIBERTARIAN FEATURES REVIEW China: The Annihilation of Hutnan Rights 26 JanuarII979 by David Hart Volume ~ No. 12 "Why has it taken so long to expose the gross violations of human rights-the massacres, torture and imprisonment-that have occured since the Communist Chinese Party came to power in 1949?" Playing the Mont Pelerin 1947-1978: China Card The Road to LibertarianisIn 16 by Leonard E Liggio by Roy A. -
Manny Klausner Charles Koch Dave Nolan Bob Poole Di
Reminiscences 10 Key Libertarian Activists Discuss the Significance of the Movement They Helped Build. The setting: the elegant Sheraton-PalaceHotel in San Fmn- Americansfir Freedom at the historic 1969 YAF convention. cisco. The occasion: the annual convention of the national He is currently a professor of economics. Libertarian Party. Gatheredfor the occasion were close to MARK FMzIER-long-time REASON contributing editor IO00 people, including many of the key activists who had led and libertarianjournalist, Frazier currently directs the Sabre thegrowth of the libertarian movement over the past decade. Foundation's Journalism Fund and its Space Freeport Several months before, it had occurred to Dave Nolan what Project, and serves as executive director of the Local Govern- a unique opportunity this convention wouldpresent. Why not ment Center. bring together these key people, in one room (some of them MANUEL KLAUSNER-REASON partner and ediwr, one- meetingfor thefirst time), to discuss the accomplishments of timeLP candidatefir Congress, talk-showparticipant, world the libertarian movement, their own des in shaping it, and traveler, and practicing attorney with one of Los Angeles' their views on itsfiture course and prospects? REASON editor biggest law jTrms. Bob Poole agreed, and began sending out letters. CHARLES Koca-chairman of Koch Industries and presi- Consequently, at the close of a long day of seminars, dent of the Fred C. Koch Foundation, Koch plays a key role in debates, meals, speeches, and socializing, 10 libertarian a number of libertarian institutions. He is chairman of the leaders sat down around a tape recorder to reminisce and Institute for Humane Studes, director of the Cat0 Institute, prognosticate. -
Ralph Raico: Champion of Authentic Liberalism Daniel P
State University of New York College at Buffalo - Buffalo State College Digital Commons at Buffalo State History Theses History and Social Studies Education 12-2012 Ralph Raico: Champion of Authentic Liberalism Daniel P. Stanford [email protected] Advisor Gary Marotta, Ph.D., Professor of History First Reader Gary Marotta, Ph.D., Professor of History Second Reader John D. Abromeit, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of History Department Chair Andrew D. Nicholls, Ph.D., Professor of History To learn more about the History and Social Studies Education Department and its educational programs, research, and resources, go to http://history.buffalostate.edu/. Recommended Citation Stanford, Daniel P., "Ralph Raico: Champion of Authentic Liberalism" (2012). History Theses. Paper 13. Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.buffalostate.edu/history_theses Part of the European History Commons, Intellectual History Commons, and the United States History Commons Ralph Raico: Champion of Authentic Liberalism by Daniel P. Stanford An Abstract of a Thesis in History Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts December 2012 College at Buffalo State University of New York Department of History 1 ABSTRACT OF THESIS Ralph Raico: Champion of Authentic Liberalism This paper explores the intellectual life and writings of Professor Emeritus in History at Buffalo State College, Ralph Raico. The central thesis seeks to portray Professor Raico as the great modern libertarian revisionist historian, and the great modern champion of historical, classical liberalism. More broadly, the work attempts to solidify Professor Raico’s reputation as a major figure in the modern American libertarian movement. Raico’s intellectual foundations are fully developed, beginning from grade school at Bronx High School of Science, to his attendance of Ludwig von Mises’s New York University seminar, to his P.h.D. -
The Libertarian Review September 1975
• © 1975, LIBERTARIAN REVIEW, INC an VOL. IV, NO.9-SEPTEMBER 1975 THE STATE By Franz Oppenheimer For centuries, the State and its intellectual apolo The State is unsurpassed in its analysis of the State as parasite and exploiter. gists have propagated the myth that the State is a Thus, Oppenheimer points out that there are two and only two ways by which voluntary instrument of society. Essential to that men can acquire income and wealth: One is through production and volun myth is the idea that the State arose on a volun tary exchange, what Oppenheimer calls "the economic means" to wealth, the tary, or at least on a natural, basis, arising organi means consonant with human nature and with the prosperity of mankind, the cally out of the needs of society. For if the State means which benefits all parties to the market and exchange process. The arose naturally or voluntarily, then it probably fol other means is robbery, the coercive looting and expropriation of someone :t>:;Y;:;:<1 ~::.:~:(" .;:,- ~:"~:: ::~:~:.., .. ~;;',:l~::::'i';; :'-:~::~:-: :~:~. lows that it fulfilled and still fulfills a vital societal else's production. This is the parasitic means, which not only violates the na function. Two major variants of the myth of State ture of man, but imposes a crippling burden on the victims and on production origins are the idea that the State arose out of a and economic growth. This path to wealth Oppenheimer called "the political "social contract" entered into by all members of means." Oppenheimer then goes on to define the State, on the basis of his society. -
An Exclusive Interview with Sir Peter Ustinov
Is There a Need for An Exclusive FM'M? Interview with Sir Peter Ustinov Are daydreams, by Warren Allen Smith illusions, and religious beliefs an escape from Remembering reality, or bene- ficial tools for World War II dealing with life? Racial Superiority and `Ethnic Cleansing' The Wandering Jew by Martin Gardner Editor: Paul Kurtz SUMMER 1995, VOL. 15, NO. 3 ISSN 0272-0701 r- PreS1.re I Contents C Senior Editors: Vern Bullough, Thomas W. Flynn, Gerald Larue, Gordon Stein 3 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Executive Editor: Timothy J. Madigan Managing Editor: Andrea Szalanski 5 An Exclusive Interview with Contributing Editors: Robert S. Alley, Joe E. Barnhart, David Berman, Peter Ustinov Warren Allen Smith H. James Birx, Jo Ann Boydston, Bonnie Bullough, Paul Edwards, Albert Ellis, Roy P. Fairfield, Charles 8 EDITORIALS W. Faulkner, Antony Flew, Levi Fragell, Adolf Grünbaum, Marvin Kohl, Jean Kotkin, Thelma Agenda for the Humanist Movement in the Twenty-First Century, Paul Lavine, Tibor Machan, Ronald A. Lindsay, Michael Martin, Delos B. McKown, Lee Nisbet, John Novak, Kurtz / True Believers and Utter Madness, James A. Naught I Right to Skipp Porteous, Howard Radest, Robert Rimmer, Die: The Battle Is Joined, Ronald A. Lindsay Michael Rockier, Svetozar Stojanovic, Thomas Szasz, V. M. Tarkunde, Richard Taylor, Rob Tielman 15 Humanist Potpourri Warren Allen Smith Associate Editors: Molleen Matsumura, Lois Porter 19 Editorial Associates: REMEMBERING WORLD WAR II Doris Doyle, Thomas Franczyk, Roger Greeley, 19 Racial Superiority and `Ethnic Cleansing' Revisited Paul Kurtz James Martin-Diaz, Steven L. Mitchell, Warren Allen Smith 20 Why I Am Immune to Mysticism Paul A. -
Tv Trial for Westmoreland
VOLUME1, NUMBER14 SEPTEMBER17, 1984 50 CENTS TV TRIALFOR WESTMORELAND (4) o HOWTO FAKEA RESUME(14). AUDIOPARADISE (22) The Pd Ovei' W Rdrert K Landers fp/hen Ed Crane drives around !(ashing- It/ ton, he gets depressed. He sees all V Y those massivegovernment buildings, those "giant marble edifices," and he thinks of all thosebureaucrats inside. all those"thousands of people employed doing work that is counter- productive," not in his interest, not for his safe- ty, and God knows, not for his wallet. "Bureaucracy is a bad thing," he saysfrom be- \r\rcf WRMK Londerc f!|Z/hen Ed Crane drives around Washing- ll/ ton. he gets depressed. He sees all V V those massive government buildings, those "giant marble edifices," and he thinks of all those bureaucrats inside, all those "thousands of people employed doing work that is counter- productive," not in his interest, not for his safe- ry, and God knows, not for his wallec "Bureaucracy is a bad thing," he says from be. hind his desk in an elegant town house on Sec- ond Street Southeast, with the James Madison Building of the Library of Congress looming ominously outside his windows. "Government, whatever it does, is doing it be- caus€ people won't do it voluntarily. They don't want to. The government has become so large, so dangerous to our civil liberties, to our eco- nomic prosperity, to our ability to live. Be- cause," he continues, "they're going to start a war one of these days, and it's all, it just doesn't have to be, because if this country had followed the principles on which it was founded . -
The Efron Affair 25 MARTYRS of the NEW by Murray N
MAY 1978 S1.25 who sees a chance to profit by supporting it; but one might expect a different view point among those who stress the signifi Letters cance of the "moral principles underlying I self-ownership and individual liberty." Our sense of tolerance must of course ex tend to the white South Africans who be lieve in the principles of apartheid. But when they translate those beliefs into ac The money mess a small college where the ideas of the tion, a truly consistent libertarian ethic Austrian school are prevalent. demands that we denounce those actions, "The Shattered World Economy!' by Grove City College, in Grove City, or at least refuse to support them-no mat Christopher Weber is the first article I have Pennsylvania ... , offers a stimulating en ter how profitable such support might be. read in this country whereby Americans vironment for the undergraduate follower It seems to me that this might also extend to are shown to be honest with themselves. of the Austrian school. In the classroom, the advertising policy of our publications Perhaps I have not read everything that has the economics department, led by Dr. Hans no matter how costly such a policy might been written on the subject, but, in general, F. Sennholz, vividly demonstrates to many be. people here are fed a line, such as, "It is skeptical graduates of the public school How about it, gentlemen? Does LR set good for us because it makes our exports system that there is a viable alternative to itself apart from the conservative press in look better." statism... -
The Public Eye, Summer 2017
SUMMER 2017 The Public Eye In this issue: The Christian Right and Fourth Generation Warfare How Antisemitism Animates White Nationalism When Prison Ministries Prioritize Salvation Over Justice Charles Koch and the Makings of a Right-Wing Empire editor’s letter As the summer issue of The Public Eye ships to the printers, it’s been a whirlwind week. THE PUBLIC EYE Republicans’ efforts to overthrow Obamacare failed dramatically in the early hours of July QUARTERLY 28, but this victory followed some of the Trump administration’s most aggressive anti- PUBLISHER LGBTQ actions to date. Trump delivered an unprecedentedly ugly partisan speech to the Boy Tarso Luís Ramos Scouts of America, endorsed police brutality to a law enforcement audience, and publicly EDITOR mused about firing officials over the ongoing Russia investigation and pardoning himself Kathryn Joyce for what they may find. As many are now questioning if the administration is on a messy COVER ART slide towards authoritarianism, this issue homes in on some of what got us here. Ashley Lukashevsky Sociologist and former civilian intelligence analyst James Scaminaci takes a close look at a little-known right-wing strategy developed in LAYOUT “Fourth Generation Warfare” (pg. 4), Gabriel Joffe the 1980s and deployed over decades by strategists Paul Weyrich and William S. Lind. A fusion of military theory and the Christian Right agenda, Fourth Generation Warfare seeks PRINTING Red Sun Press to undermine the public’s confidence not just in the government and media, but in a com- monly-accepted reality itself. The result, Scaminaci writes, is “an all-out propaganda war EDITORIAL BOARD against secular liberalism” and the political mainstream, waged “with the same intensity Frederick Clarkson • Alex DiBranco as a shooting war.” Fourth Generation Warfare, he argues, set the template for Trump’s no- Tope Fadiran • Gabriel Joffe Kapya Kaoma • Greeley O’Connor holds-barred campaign against the political establishment. -
Fem 00 Front Matter
$25.00 S F T THE THE U THE O R L C B FEMINIST FEMINIST H FEMINIST A T DILEMMA DILEMMA G DILEMMA O T DIANA FURCHTGOTT-ROTH T - When Success Is When Success Is R When Success Is O CHRISTINE STOLBA Not Enough Not Enough T Not Enough H Praise for Diana Furchtgott-Roth and Christine Stolba Over the past several decades, American women have gradually overcome the legal “Furchtgott-Roth and Stolba do an excellent job of explaining the choices women make in T and cultural barriers to equal opportunity. Diana Furchtgott- balancing work and family.” H W Women now receive over half of all B.A.s and Roth was a resident E h M.A.s, and working women have become the fellow at the Amer- —Wendy Lee Gramm, Former Chairman, Commodity Futures Trading Commission e rule rather than the exception. Women are n ican Enterprise Insti- F “The authors’ careful analysis . illuminates the extraordinary achievement of American becoming physicians, lawyers, CEOs, and E tute from 1993 to S THE women in the past half-century and points the way to greater opportunities ahead.” u scientists and are founding their own busi- 2001. She is coau- M c nesses in record numbers. thor with Christine c —Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, Former Ambassador to the United Nations I e Stolba of Women’s N In The Feminist Dilemma, Diana s s Furchtgott-Roth and Christine Stolba argue Figures: An Illustrated Guide to the Economic I I S that even though women’s opportunities are Progress of Women in America (1999).