Editing Murray Rothbard (section)

=== Race, gender, and civil rights ===
Michael O'Malley, associate professor of history at [[George Mason University]], describes Rothbard's tone toward the [[civil rights movement]] and the [[women's suffrage]] movement as "contemptuous and hostile".<ref name=":5">O'Malley, Michael (2012). ''Face Value: The Entwined Histories of Money and Race in America.'' Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press. pp. 205–07</ref> Rothbard criticized women's rights activists, attributing the growth of the [[welfare state]] to politically active [[spinster]]s "whose busybody inclinations were not fettered by the responsibilities of home and hearth".<ref>{{cite book |last=Rothbard |first=Murray |year=2017 |title=The Progressive Era |url=https://mises.org/library/book/progressive-era |publisher=[[Ludwig von Mises Institute]] |location=Auburn, AL |pages=332 |isbn=978-1610166744 |access-date=August 19, 2024 |archive-date=October 23, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201023131723/https://cdn.mises.org/The%20Progressive%20Era_0.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> Rothbard argued that the [[Progressivism|progressive movement]], which he regarded as a noxious influence on the United States, was spearheaded by a coalition of Yankee Protestants (people from the six [[New England]] states and [[upstate New York]] who were [[Protestants]] of [[English-Americans|English descent]]), Jewish women and "lesbian spinsters".<ref>Murray N. Rothbard (August 11, 2006). [https://mises.org/daily/2225 "Origins of the Welfare State in America"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141011063900/http://mises.org/daily/2225 |date=October 11, 2014 }}. ''mises.org''.</ref>

Rothbard, still on the theme of [[feminism]], wrote that "too many American men live in a matriarchy, dominated first by Momism, then by female teachers, and then by their wive", and that women were advantaged because they were supported by their husbands.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Rothbard |first=Murray Newton |date=May 1970 |title=The Great Women’s Liberation Issue: Setting It Straight |url=https://www.rothbard.it/articles/women-liberation.pdf |publisher=Individualist}}</ref>  Rothbard's negative view of feminism can also be found in the 1991 article ''The Great Thomas & Hill Show: Stopping The Monstrous Regiment'', where he wrote "At the risk of alienating my atheist libertarian friends, I think it increasingly clear that conservatives are right: that some religion is going to be dominant in every society. And that if Christianity, for example, is scorned and tossed out, some horrendous form of religion is going to take its place: whether it be Communism, New Age occultism, feminism, or Left-Puritanism. There is no getting around this basic truth of human nature."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Rothbard |first=Murray Newton |date=December 1991 |title=THE GREAT THOMAS & HILL SHOW: STOPPING THE MONSTROUS REGIMENT |url=https://archive.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/ir/Ch69.html |website=archive.lewrockwell.com}}</ref>

Rothbard called for the elimination of "the entire 'civil rights' structure," which he said "tramples on the property rights of every American." He consistently favored repeal of the [[1964 Civil Rights Act]], including Title VII regarding employment discrimination,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://archive.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/ir/Ch69.html|title=The Great Thomas & Hill Show: Stopping the Monstrous Regiment|website=archive.lewrockwell.com|access-date=July 31, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170418134336/https://archive.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/ir/Ch69.html|archive-date=April 18, 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref> and called for overturning the ''[[Brown v. Board of Education]]'' decision on the grounds that state-mandated integration of schools violated libertarian principles.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.lewrockwell.com/2015/11/lew-rockwell/open-borders-assault-private-property/|title=Open Borders Are an Assault on Private Property – LewRockwell LewRockwell.com|access-date=July 31, 2016|archive-date=June 4, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160604161028/https://www.lewrockwell.com/2015/11/lew-rockwell/open-borders-assault-private-property/|url-status=live}}</ref> In an essay called "Right-wing Populism", Rothbard proposed a set of measures to "reach out" to the "middle and working classes", which included urging the police to crack down on "street criminals", writing that "cops must be unleashed" and "allowed to administer instant punishment, subject of course to liability when they are in error". He also advocated that the police "clear the streets of bums and vagrants."<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://archive.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/ir/Ch5.html|title=Right-Wing Populism|website=archive.lewrockwell.com|access-date=July 31, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160524131828/http://archive.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/ir/Ch5.html|archive-date=May 24, 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=":15">{{Cite book |last=Massimino |first=Cory |title=Routledge handbook of anarchy and anarchist thought |date=2021 |publisher=Routledge, Taylor & Francis group |isbn=978-1-138-73758-7 |editor-last=Chartier |editor-first=Gary |series=Routledge handbooks |location=London |chapter=Two cheers for Rothbardianism |editor-last2=Van Schoelandt |editor-first2=Chad}}</ref>

Rothbard held strong opinions about many leaders of the civil rights movement. He considered black separatist [[Malcolm X]] to be a "great black leader" and integrationist [[Martin Luther King Jr.]] to be favored by whites because he "was the major restraining force on the developing Negro revolution".<ref name="Enemy" />{{rp|page=167}} Jacob Jensen writes that Rothbard's commentary from the 1960s, approving of both "black power" and "white power" in separated communities, amounted to support for [[racial segregation]].{{Sfn|Jensen|2022|p=325–326}} In 1993, Rothbard rejected the vision of a "separate black nation", asking, "Does anyone really believe that ... New Africa would be content to strike out on its own, with no massive "foreign aid" from the U.S.A.?"<ref>Rothbard, Murray N. (February 1993). [http://archive.lewrockwell.com/1970/01/murray-n-rothbard/their-malcolm-and-mine/ "Their Malcolm ... and Mine."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220330013408/http://archive.lewrockwell.com/1970/01/murray-n-rothbard/their-malcolm-and-mine/ |date=March 30, 2022 }} LewRockwell.com</ref> Rothbard also suggested that opposition to Martin Luther King Jr., whom he demeaned as a "coercive integrationist", should be a litmus test for members of his "[[paleolibertarian]]" political movement.<ref>Rothbard, Murray (November 1994). [http://archive.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/ir/Ch16.html "Big-Government Libertarians."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170131223653/http://archive.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/ir/Ch16.html |date=January 31, 2017 }} ''LewRockwell.com''</ref>

Rothbard is described by the historian John P. Jackson Jr. as espousing [[antisemitism]] despite Rothbard's own background as a secular Jew.<ref name=":7" /> One former student described Rothbard as privately using the anti-Jewish slur "[[kike]]s" repeatedly.<ref name=":7" /> Rothbard also befriended the [[Holocaust denial|Holocaust deniers]] [[Willis Carto]] and [[Harry Elmer Barnes]].<ref name=":7">{{cite journal | url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/804147 | title=The Pre-History of American Holocaust Denial | journal=American Jewish History | year=2021 | volume=105 | issue=1 | pages=25–48 | last1=Jackson | first1=John P. Jr | doi=10.1353/ajh.2021.0002 | s2cid=239763082 | access-date=October 23, 2022 | archive-date=September 4, 2021 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210904004649/https://muse.jhu.edu/article/804147 | url-status=live }}</ref>