Rothbard’s political philosophy ultimately did not jibe with the New Left; he believed they ignored “the iron law of oligarchy” that governed political affairs, and that their egalitarianism was a revolt “against the ontological structure of reality itself.” Human beings were innately, biologically unequal, and the workings of the market would reveal the elect of the race. But the existence of the state disrupted the natural workings of the free market: it was a parasitic organism that fed off the honest toil of the real producers.
