Here in this 1850 classic a powerful refutation of Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto published two years earlier Bastiat discusses: • what is law? • why socialism constitutes legal plunder • the proper function of the law • the law and morality • "the vicious circle of socialism" • the basis for stable government • and more. French political libertarian and economist CLAUDE FRÉDÉRIC BASTIAT (1801-1850) was one of the most eloquent champions of the concept that property rights and individual freedoms flowed from natural law.[]
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