Editing Murray Rothbard (section)

=== Views on war ===
Like [[Randolph Bourne]], Rothbard believed that "war is the health of the state". According to David Gordon, this was the reason for Rothbard's opposition to aggressive [[foreign policy]].<ref name="Gordon"/> Rothbard believed that stopping new wars was necessary and that knowing how the government had led citizens into earlier wars was important. Two essays expanded on these views: "War, Peace, and the State" and "Anatomy of the State". Rothbard used insights from [[Vilfredo Pareto]], [[Gaetano Mosca]], and [[Robert Michels]] to build a model of state personnel, goals, and ideology.<ref>{{cite web |first=Joseph R. |last=Stromberg |url=http://antiwar.com/stromberg/?articleid=4296 |title=Murray Rothbard on States, War, and Peace: Part I |date=January 10, 2005 |publisher=[[Antiwar.com]] |orig-year=first published June 12, 2000 |access-date=May 1, 2009 |archive-date=August 23, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110823091728/http://antiwar.com/stromberg/?articleid=4296 |url-status=live }} Also see [http://www.antiwar.com/stromberg/?articleid=4420 Part II] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090417215914/http://antiwar.com/stromberg/?articleid=4420 |date=April 17, 2009 }}, originally published June 20, 2000.</ref><ref>See both essays: Rothbard, Murray. [http://www.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/rothbard26.html "War, Peace, and the State"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130515223625/http://www.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/rothbard26.html |date=May 15, 2013 }}, first published 1963; [http://www.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/rothbard62.html "Anatomy of the State"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120908063653/http://www.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/rothbard62.html |date=September 8, 2012 }}, first published 1974.</ref>{{Third-party inline|date=March 2023}}

Rothbard's colleague Joseph Stromberg notes that Rothbard made two exceptions to his general condemnation of war: "the [[American Revolution]] and the [[Historical negationism#United States history|War for Southern Independence]], as [[Lost Cause of the Confederacy|viewed from the Confederate side]]", referring to the [[American Civil War]].<ref>Stromberg, Joseph (June 12, 2000). [http://antiwar.com/stromberg/?articleid=4296 "Murray N. Rothbard on States, War, and Peace: Part I."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110823091728/http://antiwar.com/stromberg/?articleid=4296 |date=August 23, 2011 }} Antiwar.com</ref> Rothbard condemned the "[[Names of the American Civil War|Northern war]] against slavery", saying it was inspired by "fanatical" religious faith and characterized by "a cheerful willingness to uproot institutions, to commit mayhem and mass murder, to plunder and loot and destroy, all in the name of high moral principle".<ref>Rothbard, Murray (1991). [http://www.lewrockwell.com/1970/01/murray-n-rothbard/whats-a-just-war/ "Just War."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130713063612/http://www.lewrockwell.com/1970/01/murray-n-rothbard/whats-a-just-war/ |date=July 13, 2013 }} [[LewRockwell.com]]</ref><ref>Denson, J. (1997). ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=0MJCDZBbxJcC Costs of War: America's Pyrrhic Victories] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160527101804/https://books.google.com/books/about/Costs_of_War.html?id=0MJCDZBbxJcC |date=May 27, 2016 }}''. (pp. 119–33). New Brunswick, New Jersey: Transaction Publishers.</ref><ref>[[Dilorenzo, Thomas]] (January 28, 2006). [http://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/more-from-rothbard-on-war-religion-and-the-state/ "More from Rothbard on War, Religion, and the State."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140203050801/http://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/more-from-rothbard-on-war-religion-and-the-state/ |date=February 3, 2014 }} LewRockwell.com</ref> He celebrated [[Jefferson Davis]], [[Robert E. Lee]], and other prominent Confederates as heroes while denouncing [[Abraham Lincoln]], [[Ulysses S. Grant]], and other Union leaders, who he said had "opened the Pandora's Box of genocide and the extermination of civilians".<ref name="Denson1999">{{cite book|last=Denson|first=John V.|title=The Costs of War: America's Pyrrhic Victories|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aSOZAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA133|year=1999|publisher=Transaction Publishers|isbn=978-0-7658-0487-7|page=133|access-date=June 28, 2017|archive-date=October 16, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191016074010/https://books.google.com/books?id=aSOZAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA133|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Barr2014">{{cite book|last=Barr|first=John McKee|title=Loathing Lincoln: An American Tradition from the Civil War to the Present|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gvPpAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA265|date= 2014|publisher=LSU Press|isbn=978-0-8071-5384-0|page=265|access-date=June 28, 2017|archive-date=October 16, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191016074127/https://books.google.com/books?id=gvPpAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA265|url-status=live}}</ref> Rothbard saw [[secession]] movements as a tool for undermining and disintegrating the state, according to historian [[Quinn Slobodian]], who wrote that "Rothbard's life was marked by a search for signs of potential secession" and that "When he found them, he did his best to deepen them."<ref name=":14" />