The Law

Here, in this 1850 classic, a powerful refutation of Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto, published two years earlier, Bastiat discusses: ¿ what is law? ¿ why socialism constitutes legal plunder ¿ the proper function of the law ¿ the law and morality ¿ "the vicious circle of socialism" ¿ the basis for stable government ¿ and more. French political libertarian and economist CLAUDE FRÉDÉRIC BASTIAT (1801-1850) was one of the most eloquent champions of the concept that property rights and individual freedoms flowed from natural law.