Karl Hess
![Hess at [[The Future of Freedom Conference]] in 1981](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/89/Photo----Karl-Hess-in-Middle-and-Timothy-Leary-on-the-left-1981-FOF-Con_%28cropped%29.jpg)
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". 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)." His views were similar to those one of
Samuel Edward Konkin III.
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