Mark Mitchell on Plutocratic Socialism

Mark Mitchell, author of Plutocratic Socialism:  The Future of Private Property and the Fate of the Middle Class and President of Front Porch Republic, joins the podcast.  Mitchell and Murdock discuss the origins of FPR and the importance of widely-held productive private property in an era when the super rich and socialists have formed an odd partnership.       

Host:  John Murdock 

Guest: Mark Mitchell 

Highlights 

1:30 Mark Mitchell, happy at home chopping wood 

5:00 FPR, the early days 

9:00 How not to change the world  

12:00 The messy remainder of reality 

13:00 From Richard Weaver to “You’ll Own Nothing and You’ll be Happy” 

19:30 Gnostic temptations v. the Incarnation  

23:00 The odd couple:  plutocracy and socialism 

31:30 The not so odd couple:  productive property and democratic citizenship 

36:00 The myth of maximal emancipation 

39:00 Tocqueville’s aristocratic fears 

45:00 Prospects for property in a time of chronic crisis 

52:45 Friendly pushback on COVID and climate (with a cameo by Roger Scruton) 

60:00 If they are for it, we’re against it 

64:00 Loving our neighbor to counter a nationalized focus 

 

Resources 

Buy the book 

Mitchell’s bio at FPR 

An excerpt from Plutocratic Socialism 

Wendell Kimbrough helps us find our way home