Karl Hess

Karl Hess
Born
Carl Hess III

May 25, 1923
DiedApril 22, 1994(1994-04-22) (aged 70)
NationalityAmerican
Occupations
  • Speechwriter
  • author
  • welder
Years active1940–1994
Employer(s)Mutual Broadcasting System, The Washington Daily News, Newsweek, American Enterprise Institute, The Libertarian Forum
Political partyLibertarian Party
SpouseTherese (second wife)
ChildrenKarl Hess, IV

Karl Hess (born Carl Hess III; May 25, 1923 – April 22, 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".[1][2] 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]

  1. ^ Hess, Karl (March 1969). The Death of Politics. Original publisher: Playboy. Archived 2019-08-02 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ Johnson, Charles (28 August 2015). "Karl Hess on Anarcho-Capitalism". Center for a Stateless Society. Retrieved 9 October 2023. In fact, the earliest documented, printed use of the word "anarcho-capitalism" that I can find [6] actually comes neither from Wollstein nor from Rothbard, but from Karl Hess's manifesto "The Death of Politics," which was published in Playboy in March, 1969. [boldface in original]
  3. ^ Hess 1999.

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