Democracy fails in many respects. One of the main failures is that its coercive, or an enemy of liberty in the Lockean sense of violating the normative claim of the “respect” principle, i.e. the consent theory. The consent theory of government is “the universal demolisher of all governments, but not the builder of any” Josiah …
Lance Klafta Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed no. 34 (1993) source The political controversy of the late 19th century was: whether socialists (all those who believed in the individual’s right to possess what he or she produced) should engage in the political process, seize control of the state, and …
Although I am not a “voluntaryist,” is not as if I don’t agree with some of their works. source K. I. S. S. A Pig! – Anarchist or Minarchist? By Carl Watner In recent years, there have been countless words exchanged between free market anarchists and limited government minarchists concerning …
David Ellerman [Ellerman fails to see that rights are a figment of the imagination. Nonetheless, he gives reasoning against those that like to alienate.] source Many political theorists have taken natural rights to be alienable. The last chapter sketched an intellectual history of the non-democratic alienist liberal tradition which emphasized …
Tibor R. Machan source …Locke argued that each of us has rights to our lives and resources, including what we produce or create. We are supposedly sovereign, so no one may rule us; slavery, serfdom, or involuntary servitude are forbidden.1 Any such relationship of ruler and ruled between us and …
Anarchy without adjectives and the reality of the situation below may have prompted this: A SURVEY OF HYPHENATED ANARCHIST TYPES AND THEIR OPPOSITES. Version 2 of ANSPECTRUMHYPHENATEDANTERMS 10 MARCH 2000 by John Zube. ANYONE IS INVITED TO REPRODUCE AND IMPROVE THIS DRAFT. Just send me a copy including your improvements! http://www.butterbach.net/hyphen1.htm A …
Audio Audio Books The Iron Fist Behind the Invisible Hand: Capitalism As a State-Guaranteed System of Privilege Direct download from nostate.com: The_Iron_Fist_Behind_the_Invisible_Hand.mp3 Broken into chapters 1-Introduction.mp3 (3.5m, 2.8MB) 2-The Subsidy of History.mp3 (24m9s, 22.1MB) 3-Ideological Hegemony.mp3 (9m36s, 8.8MB) 4-The Money Monopoly.mp3 (9m40s, 8.9MB) 5-Patents.mp3 (13m20s, 12.2MB) 6-Infrastructure.mp3 (5m15s, 4.8MB) 7-Military Keynesianism.mp3 (2m43s, 2.5MB) 8-Other Subsidies.mp3 (6m44s, 6.2MB) 9-Political Repression.mp3 (6m20s, …
“Firstly, the phrase ‘the meaning of a word’ is a spurious phrase. Secondly and consequently, a re-examination is needed of phrases like the two which I discuss, ‘being a part of the meaning of’ and ‘having the same meaning’. On these matters, dogmatists require prodding: although history indeed suggests that it may …
There are many varying shades of reds and/or blacks occupied in the silos of anarchism and its bedfellows below. Some of the links might be a space that now lays fallow or dead on the edge of the cultivated fields and forests of libertarianism on the web. Some of these …
If you want fast “answers,” but maybe not the best ones, try the FAQs below. A great place to begin, if you need a beginning, might be the piece below the FAQ list, “Instead of a Primer.” Otherwise, these books, articles, audio (like podcasts etc.), and video might serve you …