[cross-posted at Brainpolice at The Mises Community] There is a reoccuring problem that occurs within internal libertarian and anarchist discourse that I like to call the anarcho-semantics problem. The anarcho-semantics problem most often occurs in discussions and debates between socialist oriented anarchists and free market libertarians, in which there is a …
[cross-posted at Brainpolice at The Mises Community] I find it inaccurate to use either the terms “anarcho-capitalism” or “mutualism” to describe my own viewpoint. Being a pluralist as well as a person with a fairly complex and subtle heirarchy of preferances that may situationally change, I don’t accept either of the …
[cross-posted at Brainpolice at The Mises Community] “The government is necessary. The government is legitimate. Democracy is representative of the people. Democracy is the best form of government. Majority rule is legitimate. Checks and balances actually function. Voting is meaningful or even an obligation. We have a meaningful choice between political …
[cross-posted at Brainpolice at The Mises Community] source Free association and competition resolves conflict while politics, especially democratic politics, enables and ultimately depends on conflict. All disagreements between people about how to organize can theoretically be resolved through free association, as they have the choice to either disassociate/secede or come to …
also see The Libertarian Spectrum | the libertarian left brainpolice source In a sense, left-libertarianism is a historical revision that identifies a tradition of association between libertarianism and what can be deemed to be the “left” end of the political spectrum. The term left-libertarian does not use the term “left” in …
brainpolice source The general controversy and debate between left-libertarians and right-libertarians seems to have gotten more heated on the libertarian blogosphere recently, with people like Roderick Long andKevin Carson endlessly exchanging with people like Stefan Kinsella and Walter Block on questions such as the status and legitimacy of the corporate form, …
Brainpolice source I’ve already written and made numerous videos on this, but I don’t think I’ve put all of the objections together in one place. There are three major reasons that have lead me to reject the concept of “self-ownership”, or at least it has lead me to reject the …
Brainpolice To begin with, let me define my terms here. By “thin” libertarianism I refer to the treatment of the non-aggression principle as a groundless axoim, and as the only value that is relevant to libertarianism, beyond which point all other values are treated as either irrelevant or equal in …
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 The non-aggression principle [NAP] is not an axiom. By the term “axiom” I more or less mean something that is self-evident and irreducible, a stand-alone principle that functions as an obvious starting point from which everything else springs. This is not to say that I don’t advocate the non-aggression …
