Darian Worden There is a popular idea that a functional society requires a government to hold it together – a body of people who govern the rest. But what does it mean to be governed? The first person known to adopt the label “anarchist” gives us some idea: “It is, …
Brainpolice source The Anarchism and Minarchism Blur Usually if I talk about minarchism I’m going to essentially bash it and promote anarchism against it. This is to be expected, since I am an anarchist. But I would like to point out a certain sense in which I think that …
source Cette page sera traduite. Patience ! David Ellerman Abstract Just as the two sides in the Cold War agreed that Western Capitalism and Soviet Communism were “the” two alternatives, so the two sides in the intellectual Great Debate agreed on a common framing of questions with the defenders of …
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it’s time to pause and reflect.” Mark Twain “The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men”. Plato “Even voting for the right is doing nothing for it. It is only expressing to men feebly …
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 …
“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 …
The consent theory of government is “The universal demolisher of all governments, but not the builder of any.” Josiah Tucker “…no man is good enough to govern another man, without the other’s consent.” Abraham Lincoln Abe didn’t get it, unless he agrees with Robert Nozick and the idea that you can …
Although I think markets have a place in society, and are a natural outcome of community(econ pages) I think it is worth examining the ideas in this work: States created markets, markets require states, neither could continue without the other, at least in anything like forms we recognize today…markets are …
The popular notion of chaos is one of randomness, and disorder. Anarchy is likewise seen as chaos, not order. The common line of thought being a non sequitur: chaos is bad, anarchy is chaos, anarchy is bad. Besides the fact that people are confusing anarchy with anarch”ism,” Chaos Theory states: …