Of course Mises was dead when this group was formed and in the early years they had not worked with the extremists that they now attract. Lew Rockwell has continued to push this group farther and farther to the lunatic fringes. And one of the main forces for the racialist agenda is Hans-Hermann Hoppe.

Hoppe has been embroiled in numerous controversies revolving around his racialist agenda. Each time he whines he is the victim of a smear campaign and that he is being distorted. Or he’s misquoted. Or he’s misunderstood.

Now Herr Hoppe has started his own intellectual group to meet every year as part of his campaign to turn libertarianism into some sort of mirror image of himself. He started a group to compete with the Mont Pelerin Society because that group, founded by Hayek and Mises, doesn’t reflect the revisionist view of what pretends to be libertarianism in the Rockwellian camp. Hoppe founded the group and runs it. He is responsible.

So what kind of agenda does he have. He kicks off his 2007 conference with a slew of speakers promoting the intellectual inferiority of the darker races.

Hoppe has invited Volkmar Weiss to speak on “History as Cycles of Population Quality.” Population quality? Weiss is part of the movement that is determined to prove the racial inferiority of certain races. On his web site he lists his areas of speciality as genetics, history of Saxony, anti-Semitism, national socialism, and twin research. He also says he’s been a member of the editorial board of Mankind Quarterly since 1980. So for a quarter of a century he’s been involved with this one publication with this interesting name.

The man who founded and controls this journal is Roger Pearson. Born in 1927 Pearson became politically active with white racialist and neo-nazi groups almost fifty years ago. In 1958 he founded the Northern League “to foster the interests, friendship and solidarity of all Teutonic nations”. He brought in ex-Nazis and people like Ernest Sevier Cox, formerly of the Ku Klux Klan and author of White America. According to one source a past associate editor of the publication was Corrado Gini, a former advisor to Mussolini and the author of an article “The Scientific Basis of Fascism”. Otmar von Verschuer was an editorial board member of Mankind Quarterly. He was also a mentor to Josef Mengele and more importantly he worked with Mengele at Auschwitz itself.

Roger Pearson, the founder and controlling figure at the journal, was brought to the US, from England, by the grandfather of today’s anti-Jewish movement, Willis Carto. Carto, a racist, anti-Semite, and admirer of Adolph Hitler founded the Liberty Lobby, the Spotlight newspaper, the Institute for Historical Review (to debunk the holocaust), and published numerous Nazi and racist books through his publishing house Noontide Press.

Under a pseudonym Pearson edited a publication, The New Patriot, which promised to expose “every aspect of the Jewish Question” and which published essays on the Jewish conspiracy to rule the world. Pearson has written on eugenics and authored “The Racial Origins of the Founders of America,” “Heredity and Humanity,” “Race, Intelligence and Bias in Academe” and more. These books, and others of a similar nature, are published by Scott-Townsend Publishers, which appears to be controlled by Pearson and which is also the publisher of Mankind Quarterly.

Pearson said: “If a nation with a more advanced, more specialized, or in any way superior set of genes mingles with, instead of exterminating, an inferior tribe, then it commits racial suicide, and destroys the work of thousands of years of biological isolation and natural selection." His close ties to various speakers at the Hoppe conference ought to be worrisome. Read carefully Peason’s statement. If any of what he calls the superior nations mingle “in any way” with the inferior tribes, instead of exterminating them, he has committed racial suicide. Since Pearson is convinced the Teutonic races are superior is saying that whites have the obligation to exterminate inferior races.

The Mankind Quarterly received much of the funding over the years from the Pioneer Fund, a group founded by Wickliffe Draper which has funded many of the more academic oriented white supremacists. Even the Pioneer Fund’s own web site admits that “Draper and some Pioneer grantees” opposed racial integration. And they say he was interested in the movement for blacks to “repatriate” to Africa. Other sources I’ve read says Draper directly financed books on why blacks should be sent to Africa to live. Draper, through his Pioneer Fund, distributed a film on Nazi eugenics throughout America. The film, in fact, had been produced by the Nazi government itself.

(For a history of Draper and his Pioneer Fund download this pdf file.)

The Hoppe conference is also featuring as a speaker Richard Lynn. Lynn, like Weiss, is affiliated with the Mankind Quarterly of Roger Pearson. Lynn is the author of Race Differences in Intelligence. He is also strongly affiliated with Draper’s Pioneer Fund. He authored a supportive biography of Draper and about the Fund. He has received hundreds of thousands of dollars in grants from the Pioneer Fund and now sits on their board of directors.

One of Lynn’s more well-known statements is: “ What is called for here is not genocide, the killing off of the populations of incompetent cultures. But we do need to think realistically in terms of "phasing out" of such peoples. If the world is to evolve more better humans, then obviously someone has to make way for them. ... To think otherwise is mere sentimentality.” Compared to Pearson he is a moderate. He isn’t calling to exterminate races, he says. Instead he wants to find a way of phasing them out or letting them die off.

Lynn has joined the conclave--or perhaps we should say konklave--organized by white supremacist Jared Taylor, called American Renaissance. Lynn was there to give a presentation showing that black Africans have an IQ somewhere just below that of a plant. One newspaper report on the conference noted that “many of the key players at the American Renaissance have relied on Pioneer” for funding. In fact Taylor and his conference got Pioneer funding as well.

Taylor is openly a white supremacist though he prefers to call himself a white separatist saying, in much the same vein as Hoppe, “people prefer the company of people like themselves”. Taylor told one television show: “I work to return to a self-consciously white America.” That appearance earned him the praise of the Nazi group Stormfront.org which said he “made a dozen central points of White Nationalism”. But then Stormfront leaders were participants, along with Lynn, at the American Renaissance meetings.

The American Renaissance meetings have had several individuals, well favored by Rockwell and the Mises Institute, participate over the years, including Samuel Francis, Joseph Sobran and Paul Gottfried. Gottfried not only spoke at the racist American Renaissance conference but is scheduled to speak to Hoppe’s group as well. Even Jared Taylor has written for Rockwell, though his article Hate Crime Laws Miss the Point has vanished into thin air but traces of it can still be found by a cache search on his name.

Lynn also serves on the board of another racist publication Occidental Quarterly. The current issue features articles like The Jews of Prime Time and Freedom’s Racial Imperative. The Associate Editor is Theodore O’Keefe, author of numerous essays on Holocaust revisionism and former editor of the journal published by Willis Carto’s Institute for Historical Review.

The article, The Jews of Prime Time, laments the loss of television shows featuring wholesome white families to be replaced by blacks, Hispanics, etc. It says that the reason for this change is because of the domination of “immigrant Eastern European Jews and their descendants” and that this is part of a “wider culture struggle between Jews and Gentiles.” This article says that many Americans would acknowledge a culture war between liberals and conservatives but “were one to posit that Jews were waging an equally vitriolic (and not totally unrelated) war on majority Americans, there would likely be strenuous denials.”

The magazine quotes another contributor to the publication as saying there is “a Jewish war on Gentiles” and that Jews have a “very deep antipathy to the entire gentile-dominated social order”. This sounds like the comments of Rockwell ally, Joe Sobran who said that Jews define themselves today by their hatred for Christians and adopt views “because they are repugnant to Christians.” Another Rockwell ally Thomas Fleming says Jews “often despise” Christianity and the “way of life” of most Americans.

Occidental Quarterly says “we are witnessing the effects of a kind of cultural hegemony being exercised by the distinct group of Hollywood writers producers, et al. who, as we have seen, are predominately Jewish.” This is one reason, it notes, that we don’t see films on “the Jewish role in Communism and its attendant infamies”.

Remember these words are published in journal directly related to one of the key speakers at Hoppe’s conference. Too often the term racist and neo-Nazi is used by the Left to describe anyone they don’t like. That has stripped the terms of the meaning they rightfully have. The result is that when used in cases where they do apply they are too often shrugged off.

Two speakers speakers at Hoppe’s conference, invited to speak by him, are directly associated with organizations that have overlapping links with people who really are racists and who really do hate the Jews. The write and work for racist publications. They associate with people who are not just labeled neo-Nazis by the Left but who really are neo-Nazis. Hoppe contends he doesn’t associate with such people. Yet here are two of them. And he invited them to speak at this conference at an organization he hopes will direct the libertarian movement in the future.

It is no coincidence that racists are top speakers at the Hoppe confab. He organized it so we can rightfully say he planned it this way. And perhaps one might have slipped in because he was “unaware” of such a connection. But when the number of such speakers multiply the ability to excuse the action diminishes. Hoppe has been caught out so many times for his bigotry and racism that it is hard to deny the facts.

These individuals did not merely write something that was reprinted by these racist publications. They actually sit on the editorial board and one of the speakers is on the board of a foundation that showers money on racist academics and racist groups like American Renaissance. That Hoppe makes this his kick-off session and has several speakers on the race issues is a clear indication that this is a major component of his thinking. It is the reason he has said statements that sounded to all but Hoppe as racist. It is the reason he is happy to give interviews to publications widely seen as neo-Nazi. It is the reason he and his friends at Mises work closely with racial secessionist groups and why Hoppe can speak to those groups.

At some point the cumulating of evidence ought to convince the most faithful follower of the Mises Institute that there truly is something rotten infesting that group. The real question is why other people, who don’t harbor such views, continue to give Hoppe a veneer of respectability. Should scholars associated with the Independent Institute (two of them) or the University of Buckingham share a podium with people who are racists and work with open Nazis?

I do not suggest the conference be banned or closed down or interfered with by any government agency. But I do have to wonder why people would speak at a conference which invites racists to explain their positions and which thinks that people associating with neo-Nazi publications are serious scholars. But then such views come damn close to the view of Mr. Hoppe.

Over the years I’ve known several such “traditionalist Catholics” and every single one of them was a purveyor of anti-Jewish conspiracy theories. I am sure there are some exceptions, I’m only saying I never meet any such exceptions myself. Most were like the most famous “traditionalist Catholic” around today -- Mel Gibson and his viciously anti-Jewish father Hutton Gibson.

Mel has gone off on several rants about how Jews are evil and not all were done when drunk. And his father hangs out at neo-Nazi conferences and is a favourite with the Holocaust Revisionist crowd -- sort of like Rockwellian Joe Sobran. There are several branches of the traditionalist Catholics and some are more extreme than others. A decent account of the various traditionalists groups and their common anti-Semitism can be found here:

http://www.splcenter.org/inte...

Common to all is the conspiracy thread about how the Vatican has been taken over by Jews, Freemasons, communists and homosexuals -- though at times they seem to think anyone who is one of these hated groups is simultaneously a member of all these groups. While such “traditionalist&rdq uo; Catholics are a relatively small percentage of the population they do seem to make up a substantial number of top “scholars” at the Mises Institute.

One of the newer books attacking the Vatican from the “traditionalist&rdq uo; perspective is “The Great Facade” which has two authors. One author is the lawyer in Terri Schiavo case -- he was the lawyer fighting the husband and the doctors. The other author is Thomas Woods of Mises Institute fame. You will remember Woods from his affiliation with the extremists, white supremacists in the League of the South. Woods was a founder of the League. But according to this article

http://www.splcenter.org/inte...

Woods now says that he “has nothing to do” with the League anymore. Supposedly the Woods book claims that “Judaized semi-gnostic” sects have infiltrated the Catholic Church. (That sounds like the Jewish conspiracy claims I heard from the traditionalist Catholics I knew.) The Woods book also attacks the “widespread infiltration” of the Catholicism by gays who are part of an “ecclesiastical disease that is raging out of control and supposedly “warns of the Masonic threat, citing The Permanent Instructions of the Alta Vendita, an anti-Semitic tract.”

But after publishing this work Woods says he is no longer associated with his co-author and says he is no longer associated the “traditionalist movement” though he does edit The Latin Mass, which is a traditionalist publication thought not as extreme as some. The publication’s web site links to Joseph Sobran, another Rockwell ally, who has given speeches to Holocaust revisionist groups attacking “the Tribe” (Jews) and who was fired from National Review magazine for his anti-Semitism.

http://www.enterstageright.co...

One “long-time reader and admirer’ of Sobran at a Right-wing site says Sobran has is “stooping to dark references to sinister Zionist conspiracies. He says US foreign policy “are pretty much dictated by the Jewish-Zionist powers that be in the United States.”

http://www.latinmassmagazine....

Woods seems to have a tendency to involve himself with extremist groups and then, when the light is turned on the association, to disaffiliate himself from them. The Rockwellians seem to do this as we have shown here several times. Now one can understand that accidents happen and people end up being associated with someone without realizing what that person advocates. But if you find someone constantly ending up in bed with neo-Nazis, racists and anti-Semites you do have to question why this is the case.

In the matter of the League of the South it isn’t that Woods couldn’t have known what they stood for. He was a founding member.

It didn’t take but two minutes on the League’s web site to find them discussing racist issues. Was it possible that Woods never bothered to read the material put out under the name of a group he helped found? The Southern Poverty Law Center, which is on the Left but does a lot of original research into racist groups, says the League “is essentially theocratic” and “also clearly racist”. We have said the same thing in the past.

Woods is very good at writing long essays to “address” an issue and then basically avoid addressing the issue at all. He did that in his rebuttal to Cathy Young’s columns about him and he does it regarding his membership in the League. He gives a long discourse on the values of decentralization.

http://blog.lewrockwell.com/l...

He says “I had an intermittent membership in the League over the years”. And that he didn’t run it (no one said he did that I know of). “I am responsible neither for the comments of any other members nor for the politically incorrect statements I am told can be found on the League’s site.”

I’m not sure that racist, white supremacist comments can be dismissed as merely “politically incorrect statements”. In fact since the Rockwellians wear “political incorrectness” as a badge of honor to equate racism with not being PC is practically praising racism. And is he saying he never bothered to check out what the League was promoting? He allows them to list him as a founding member and he doesn’t bother to read what they believe? And presumably, even after he hears about this stuff he still hasn’t bothered to check out whether or not it is true. If he had checked it out he would either be admitting it was true or saying it was a lie. To say these are statement “I am told” are on the site indicates that even after he learned of the racist comments he wasn’t concerned enough to see if he was supporting a racist organization or is it just an “politically incorrect” organization?

Anyway, he says racism is just a “a word that is thrown around at anyone who looks cockeyed at Jesse Jackson.” So he downplays the actual type of remarks that were made such as how Blacks would never be allowed to hold office in the White Christian republican envisioned by the League. He says the League is only emphasizing “the importance of preserving Anglo-Celtic heritage”. It is one thing to promote one’s heritage and another to claim that means people of other heritages would not be allowed equal rights in your society.

He downplays the problem of racism in his Jackson comment. He describes racists comments as being just “politically incorrect”. He says the white supremacists are only “preserving Anglo-Celtic” culture. He apparently refused to read the actual statements on the web site, if he had he wouldn’t honestly be able to refer to them as merely statement he “heard” about. This all sounds rather apologetic for racism to me. And he conveniently ignores what was actually said on the web site by indicating he has never read them even after they became an issue.

His final response is: “I find it revealing that white supremacist organizations have repeatedly and vocally condemned the League.” He never names the organizations in question that supposedly do this nor does he explain why they condemn the League. I have read one Nazi group attacking another Nazi group. That the one attacked the other doesn’t mean both aren’t Nazis. Woods rebuttal tells us nothing and rebuts nothing.

This last statement would only have some possible meaning if he bothered to tell us to whom he was referring and what they said about the League. But Woods drops the issue saying “That should be more than enough to satisfy anyone’s curiosity.” Another reply that actually manages not to reply to the issues at all.

Listed among the neo-confederate movement is now the Ludwig von Mises Institute -- pity poor Mises. They say: “Both Rockwell and institute research director Jeffrey Tucker are listed on the racist League of the South’s web page as founding members -- and both men deny their membership. Tucker has written for League publications, and many League members have taught at the institute’s seminars and given presentations at its conferences.” They also noted that Rockwell ally Thomas Fleming has been a speaker at numerous Mises seminars and that he to is “a founding League member” and that Rockwell’s web site “often features articles by League members.” Fleming is an adjunct faculty member of the Institute as well.

http://www.chroniclesmagazine...,_Poor_Mel.html?seemore=y

So many people associated with Rockwell and crew are involved with racists or anti-Semitic groups that one wonders how anyone can claim this to be anything but intentional. Thomas Fleming certainly gives one reason to believe he falls into that camp as well. Now we all know about Mel Gibson’s tirade against Jews blaming them for all the wars of the world -- a theory he gets straight from his father. Blame it on the drink but the views were daddy’s. To Fleming this was no big deal. He called it “poor Mel’s little gaffe” and said that the attention paid to his outburst is “the best argument in favor of anti-Semitism”.

Fleming says that various Jews might think Gibson an anti-Semite but adds “we Christians do not have to accept their option, which is deliberately crafted to suggest that most Christians throughout history are classic anti-Semites”. That almost sounds as if he is saying that anti-Semitism is a Jewish invention. Mises Institute ally (and ally to Fleming) Joseph Sobran has basically said the same thing. He quipped that anti-Semite used to be someone who hated Jews not it only means someone the Jews hate. Sobran takes almost the same position as Fleming. What distinguishes Jews, or as Sobran calls them “the Tribe,” is that “they are anti-Christian.” He says that Jews today define themselves “by antagonism to Christianity” and more importantly that Jews adopt their because “chiefly because they are repugnant to Christians.”

Disliking Jews, says Fleming, is merely “a matter of taste, preference, and upbringing”. He says: “It is hard enough for Baptists to tolerate Lutherans and a bit too much to insist that they become matey with Jews who often despise their religion and their way of life.” Notice his wording. The Christians are not being matey while the Jews are people who despise Christianity. He repeats this claim about Jews hating Christians several times. He says Abe Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League is a “Christophobic charlatan”. He writes: “The fact that so many troublemakers of the past 150 years have been of Jewish extraction... is certainly no argument in their favor. Jewish “intellectuals&rdqu o; continue to be in the forefront of the movements that aim to destroy our religion and culture.” And while there are Jews who “are fine and admirable people” Fleming can’t help put says “they reject my God”. As do many gentiles I might add.

The Rockwell-Hoppe crowd is a stench to libertarianism. They actively associate with the most bigoted, authoritarian groups around. Libertarians should stay as far away from this people as possible.