Sheep's clothing and Adam Smith

How does one resolve the question of the presumably cataclysmic meeting between the hitherto immovable rock and the historically unstoppable force? Perhaps by reversing the logic of the famous question: "Who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes?" Is the rock truly immovable? Or, alternatively, is the force actually unstoppable?

I mention this because I have long been a vocal advocate of free trade. I was raised on Adam Smith, inoculated against the usual collegiate flirtation with Marxism by controlled doses of Schumpeter taken in combination with "Das Kapital" and "The Communist Manifesto," and eventually found in the Austrian School of von Hayek, von Mises and Rothbard an intellectual home.

Vox Day