12 Facts About Axel Kaiser

Axel Kaiser was born on 4 July 1981 and is a Chilean writer, lawyer and political scientist known for his work on liberalism and free-market economics.

Axel Kaiser is the author of several books, including The Tyranny of Equality and The Populist Deception.

Axel Kaiser was born from Hans Christian Kaiser Wagner and Rosmarie Barents Haensgen, a German-Chilean family.

Axel Kaiser married his wife in April 1939 and settled in Villarrica in Southern Chile, where he was eventually elected as the 9th mayor of the city, serving between May 1956 and October 1957.

Axel Kaiser's father was active in the National Party, serving as a youth leader.

Axel Kaiser is the brother of Vanessa Kaiser, former scholar at the Universidad Autonoma de Chile and director of the libertarian think tank Centro de Estudios Libertarios and former councilor of Las Condes, he is brother of Johannes Kaiser, a right-wing politician, current member of the Chamber of Deputies of Chile, founder of the National Libertarian Party from Leif Kaiser, chairman of the Chilean National Rifle Association, along with three other less prominent siblings.

Axel Kaiser lived his childhood and adolescence in Villarrica with his brothers.

In 2009, Axel Kaiser won a Fulbright Program scholarship and travelled to Germany to pursue two master's degrees and a PhD in American Studies in Heidelberg University, with the thesis The American Philosophical Foundations of the Chilean Free Market Revolution.

Karmy Bolton criticizes Axel Kaiser's for misportraying the left as "violent, statist and populist" and equating state intervention with violence.

For Karmy Bolton, Axel Kaiser's view is that "either we accept neoliberalism or we are stupid" and portrays Axel Kaiser as a "worshipper of the market".

Axel Kaiser wrote in reference to it that in Chile "grave injuries have, in practice, no punishment" while omitting the 2,500,000 CLP fine that was given to each of the two aggressors, and then stated that "in Chile, deliquency has been normalized".

Axel Kaiser answered to Joignant's criticism by asking if he had actually read the book with Joignant replying "I read it in diagonal" because "the argument is too simplistic".