Frank Chodorov
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Frank Chodorov (1887–1966)
Lib radical
Books:
- Taxation is Robbery (1947, HTML)
- One is a Crowd (1952, PDF 12 MB)
- The Income Tax: Root of All Evil (1954, PDF 225 KB, HTML 202 KB)
- The Rise and Fall of Society (1959, PDF 12 MB)
- Out of Step: The Autobiography of an Individualist (1962, PDF 10 MB)
Essays (Mises.org)
- Time for Another Revolution, Frank Chodorov, 7/4/2007
- The Humanity of Trade, Frank Chodorov, 6/13/2007
- The State is a Predator, David Gordon, 6/4/2007
- Economics versus Politics, Frank Chodorov, 4/3/2007
- Taxation Is Robbery, Frank Chodorov, 4/17/2007
- Frank Chodorov, R.I.P., Murray N. Rothbard, 3/6/2007
- The Ethic of the Peddler Class, Frank Chodorov, 3/6/2007
- The Chodorov Principle, William Stepp, 2/17/2001
Journals:
- analysis (his own)
- The Freeman (1955, FEE, editor)
MNR, TBoAR: It is typical of Frank Chodorov that his consistency, his very presence exposed the far more numerous “free-enterprise” groups for the time-servers or even charlatans that they tended to be. While other conservative groups called for a lessening of the tax burden, Chodorov called for its abolition; while others warned of the increasing burden of the public debt, Chodorov alone—and magnificently—called for its repudiation as the only moral course. For if the public debt is burdensome and immoral, then outright repudiation is the best and most moral way of getting rid of it. If the bondholders, as seemed clear, were living coercively off the taxpayer, then this legalized expropriation would have to be ended as quickly as possible. Repudiation, Chodorov wrote, “can have a salutary effect on the economy of the country, since the lessening of the tax burden leaves the citizenry more to do with. The market place becomes to that extent healthier and more vigorous.” Furthermore, “Repudiation commends itself also because it weakens faith in the State. Until the act is forgotten by subsequent generations, the State’s promises find few believers; its credit is shattered.”
“Socialism by Default”.One is a Crowd: The cause of private property has been championed by men who had no interest in it; their main concern has always been with the institution of privilege which has grown up alongside private property. They start by defining private property as anything that can be got by law; hence, they put their cunning to the control of the lawmaking machinery, so that the emerging laws enable them to profit at the expense of producers. They talk about the benefits of competition and work toward monopolistic practices. They extol individual initiative and support legal limitations on individuals who might challenge their ascendancy. In short, they are for the State, the enemy of private property, because they profit by its schemes. Their only objection to the State is its inclination to invade their privileged position or to extend privileges to other groups.
