"Yes, Murray would be writing articles on Ron for LRC, one per day."

I can't write the snickery noise that comes out of my nose as I read that. This expel-the-heretics (good phrase, by the way), embrace-the-savior mentality was one Rothbard cautioned against, repeatedly. He notes repeated instances of it in his History of Economic Thought* in the early movements for laissez-faire in 18th century France. You know what all those movements have in common, but I'll say it anyhow; they failed! Every last one! Would he have been happy about this situation? I doubt it. Rothbard completely broke with people over far less than what flies at LRC these days. He also broke with people over far more, but that's another story.

"I don’t know much about Walter Block and his specific beliefs, but I am willing to give him the benefit of the doubt regarding his familiarity with the freedom philosophy."

As far as I know, Block has never been a principled non-voter. He's always hewed to the Spooner/self-defense argument. I still consider it a good argument on an ethical level; my voting does not constitute consent (I'll never vote) but an attempt to make a thing with which I already disapprove less pernicious in my life. The highwayman offers to take only ten percent instead of fifty; by accepting his offer, am I granting him license to rob me in the future? I can't imagine how I could.

*His discussion of the Physiocracy movement, and its cult figure, Dr. Quesnay, is an interesting and ultimately tragic story. It parallels well the Randian movement, when it was in its cult phase. As Rothbard so tellingly put it about the Randian movement (the Physiocrats' theoretical output was so abysmal it couldn't get much worse) - "How such an atmosphere of fear and censorship crippled the productivity of Randian members may be seen by the fact that not one of the top Randians published any books while in the movement (all of Branden’s books, for example, were published after his expulsion)." -- Sociology of the Ayn Rand Cult - is justifiable here; as this thing really heats up, none of the intellectuals at the heart of it are going to produce anything of value until well after it's over.