Fans of Austrian economist, major theorizer of anarcho-capitalism, polemical firebrand, and American libertarian movement founding father Murray Rothbard can take some cheer in the fact that it took the same amount of time after the publication of his most seminal work for a major nation to fall under the control of one of his followers as it did for his ideological enemy, the arch-communist Karl Marx.
Fifty years passed between the 1867 publication of Das Kapital and the 1917 fall of Russia via an armed revolution inspired by Marx. Now, 50 years after the publication of Rothbard's major 1973 manifesto For a New Liberty, self-declared Rothbard superfan (he named one of his beloved dogs, Murray, after him) Javier Milei has won in a free and fair election the presidency of Argentina in a 56–44 victory over his Peronist opponent Sergio Massa. As befits the major differences between voluntarist and peaceful libertarianism and tyrannical and violent communism, the Rothbardian rise to power took no bloody violence, unlike the Marxist takeover in Russia.
