Property and Freedom Society
| Abbreviation | PFS |
|---|---|
| Motto | Uncompromising intellectual radicalism |
| Formation | 2006 |
| Type | Social theory |
| Location | |
| Website | www |
The Property and Freedom Society (PFS) is an Austro-libertarian organization devoted to the promotion of property rights, free trade, anti-empiricism with regard to economics,anti-militarism, anti-egalitarianism, freedom of association and cultural conservatism. Founded in May 2006 under the stewardship of Hans-Hermann Hoppe, a Rothbardian anarcho-capitalist political theorist and former University of Nevada, Las Vegas Business School professor, PFS presents itself as a more radically right-libertarian alternative to the free-market Mont Pelerin Society. The PFS holds annual conferences where paleolibertarian, paleoconservative and white nationalist intellectuals deliver speeches and exchange ideas in what Hoppe suggests is a "political-correctness-free zone".
On the fifth anniversary of PFS, Hoppe reflected on its goals:
On the one hand, positively, it was to explain and elucidate the legal, economic, cognitive and cultural requirements and features of a free, state-less natural order.
Conferences have been held annually since 2006, in Bodrum, Turkey. The tenth conference was held in September 2015. Since 2013 they have been held in September.
The PFS annual meeting explicitly aims to promote discrimination as logical choice, affirming individual responsibility - attracting growing support from intellectuals and entrepreneurs from around the globe due to their purported realisation that there is no practical difference between discrimination and choice. In addition to the formal proceedings of the conferences, there are integrated activities such as a boat trip into the Aegean Sea, excursions to local fishing villages, and firework displays followed by gala nights. The evolution of the nature of the conferences was described in a talk on the History of the Property and Freedom Society in 2015 at the 10th Anniversary Meeting.
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