Liberty and Property.pdf - The Ludwig von Mises Institute

22Liberty and Propertyfield private property makes rebellion possible.The rebel has to pay a price for hisindependence; there are in this universe noprizes that can be won without sacrifices.But if a man is willing to pay the price, he isfree to deviate from the ruling orthodoxy orneo-orthodoxy. What would conditions havebeen in the socialist commonwealth for hereticslike Kierkegaard, Schopenauer, Veblen,or Freud? For Monet, Courbet, Walt Whitman,Rilke, or Kafka? In all ages, pioneers ofnew ways of thinking and acting could workonly because private property made contemptof the majority’s ways possible. Only afew of these separatists were themselves economicallyindependent enough to defy thegovernment into the opinions of the majority.But they found in the climate of the freeeconomy among the public people preparedto aid and support them. What would Marxhave done without his patron, the manufacturerFriedrich Engels?