The Industrial Revolution
By Robert LeFevre (audio time 27:37)
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On Robert LeFevre
by R. S. Radford
In the summer of 1956, an unpredictable opinionated editorial writer for the Freedom Newspaper in Colorado Springs decided to become a teacher. What’s more, he decided to open a school where the ideas of liberty as he perceived them could be presented without interference. The result was the Freedom School, a few primitive cabins on 320 acres in the Rampart Range of the Colorado rockies. The instructor was Robert LeFevre, and he was presenting the first version of what would become Rampart College’s comprehensive course, The Fundamentals of Liberty.
LeFevre had an uncanny ability to communicate. The essence of LeFevre’s philosophy, he called autarchy. He contended that mankind is still in a state of “high barbarism,” in which we condone innumerable assaults upon our fellow man daily.
When asked whether he voted, LeFevre would smile and reply that he used neither the ballot or other forms of violence to compel others to act as he thought they should. His books and courses are passionate appeals to reason, non-violence, and the intellectual (as opposed to physical) rejection of the State.
Robert LeFevre was born in 1911. He died in 1986.
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Comment: The artwork for The Industrial Revolution course by LeFevre is a lithograph of London’s Great Exhibition of 1851 by William Simpson. This is the first lecture of a four-lecture course. Please subscribe to hear lectures 2 to 4.