Karl Hess (born Carl Hess III; 1923-1994) was an American speechwriter and author. He was also a political philosopher, editor, welder, motorcycle racer, tax resister and libertarian activist. His career included stints on the Republican right and the New Left before embracing a mix of left-libertarianism and laissez-faire anarcho-capitalism, a term which is attested earliest in his 1969 essay "The Death of Politics"12. Later in life, he summed up his role in the economy by remarking "I am by occupation a free marketer (crafts and ideas, woodworking, welding, and writing)"3.
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Karl Hess, "The Death of Politics", Playboy, March 1969, accessed 27 May 2024. ↩︎
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Rad Geek, "Karl Hess on anarchocapitalism", Rad Geek People's Daily, 14 August 2013, accessed 27 May 2024. ↩︎
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Karl Hess, Mostly on the Edge: An Autobiography, Karl Hess Jr. (editor), Amherst, New York: Prometheus Books, 1999, p. 263. ↩︎
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