Property and Freedom Society

It tells you a lot about... whatever's left or whatever exists of this movement that is around Hopin, around the Mises Institute, is just so, so intellectually, morally disgusting and corrupt.

And Hoppe himself knows that he's moved to directions that even some of the Mises people would consider, okay, this is embarrassing, which is why he created his own group where this video is from, the Property and Freedom Society.

It's in the Bastion of Liberty, which is Turkey.

It's based.

In 2006,

Hoppe

starts his own group, the Property and Freedom Society, to discuss libertarian ideas.

And yet in this group, you find...

And it tells you a lot about... whatever's left or whatever exists of this movement that is around Hoppe and around the Mises Institute is just so, so intellectually, morally disgusting and corrupt.

And Hoppe himself knows that he's moved to directions that even some of the Mises people would consider, okay, this is embarrassing, which is why he created his own group where this video is from, the Property and Freedom Society.

It's in the Bastion of Liberty, which is Turkey, it's based.

And the interesting thing is that These views these days are so mainstream among libertarians that maybe he shouldn't have created his own group because I don't think the Mises people would be so offended with the views of Hoppe.

Yeah, Paul Gottfried, that type of people.

Later, though, because you could say this is neither here nor there, you know, I don't know these people, whatever.

In 2006, Hoppe starts his own group, the Property and Freedom Society, to discuss libertarian ideas.

And yet in this group, you find...

And Hans Hoppe and I produced this book, um, which we're very happy about.

We produced this book i- in honor of his birthday, and we published it, um, we published it online March 2nd, on his birthday, on the PFS, Property and Freedom Society website.

And we, the, it took about, that was about a two or three-month production, so it was, it was a rush, but it came out really nice, but we didn't have time to get the hard copy done in time.

So after we published it online, we, uh, we, we worked with Saifedean Ammous to publish a nice, handsome hardback, uh, with the Safe House.

I got to see Portugal for the first time.

So but then when I came back, I did, um, I did the Honduras thing and the Tom Woods Cruise.

And then, um, like you said, in, um, the, the annual, uh, Property and Freedom Society meeting, which was started 20 years ago.

This was the 20th anniversary event.

And Hans Hoppe and I produced this book, um, which we're very happy about.

We produced this book i-in honor of his birthday, and we published it, um, we published it online March second, on his birthday, on the PFS, Property and Freedom Society website.

And we-- That, it took about-- That was about a two or three-month production, so it was, it was a rush, but it came out really nice, but we didn't have time to get the hard copy done in time.

So after we published it online, we, uh, we, we worked with Saifedean Ammous to publish a nice handsome hardback, uh, with the Safe House.

I got to see Portugal for the first time.

So but then when I came back, I did, um, I did the Honduras thing and the Tom Woods Cruise.

And then, um, like you said, in, um, the, the annual, uh, Property and Freedom Society meeting, which was started twenty years ago, this was the twentieth anniversary event.

It was started in two thousand and six by Hoppe, which I was at the first event.

Good evening, all.

Stephan Kinsella from The Property and Freedom Society.

Hello.

Vlad Costea from Bitcoin Takeover Magazine.

It wasn't gold.

It wasn't physical.

And, uh, those seem to have been winnowed out over time, uh, except for my good friend Guido Hülsmann, who gave a speech in Turkey two weeks ago when I was there for the Property and Freedom Society conference, and he argued that, um, he explained why he viewed that it's impossible for Bitcoin to ever become money.

So we shall see if B- if Guido is a, a, a lone voice in the wilderness or if he turns out to be right, but I have a feeling that, um, um, he's a minority voice.

Well, it's a place I never thought I'd ever be in my life, uh, but it was amazing.

Uh, it was Hans-Hermann Hoppe's Property Freedom Society, uh, annual event, and they have it there on the Aegean Sea right next to Greece at this beautiful resort hotel, and all sorts of fascinating speakers.

Uh, it was, it was a, a bucket list thing for me.

Mm-hmm.

Stephan, you're back from a whirlwind tour that took you to, among other things, three major conferences around the world, and I wanna hear about your experiences and your take on them today.

They were the Free Cities Conference held in Prospera, Honduras, the Property and Freedom Society Annual Conference in Bodrum, Turkey, and the Nordic Bitcoin Conference held in Helsinki, Finland.

So if you don't mind kicking it off, uh, just your overall impression of, uh, the first one, the Free Cities Conference.

Yeah, Free Cities was great.

I mean, look, I do all kinds of things over the world, um, and over the last decades and i- it's, it's, it's amazing to me that if you take the perspective of forty or fifty years ago, that we have such a rich international and multi-segmented liberty space.

Um, you got the Austrians like Mises Institute, you got the Libertarian Party, you've got, uh, like the Tom Woods crowd type people who are more pragmatic and, uh, life-oriented.

You've got, um, Hans Hoppe's Property and Freedom Society, which is like European American-oriented Austro-libertarians.

Um, and you've got these free cities types who, who have a, a multitude of projects, uh, behind them.