Statist Ethics 101

Guest post by Chris Dates. When using the Socratic jackhammer against statists, it’s usually not more than a couple blows of the anvil before we arrive at what the state actually is–a group of individuals exercising the use of force against other individuals. Ultimately, this is the core of the state’s power; the use of…

Free From What?

Guest post by Tim Nerenz. The argument for free enterprise is won at “free”. And the thing that enterprise must be liberated from is, of course, government. When people are free (from government) to produce, own, exchange, store, transport, invest, save, buy, sell, invent, work, and consume in any manner they see fit, the most…

The Genesis of the State

Guest post by Hamsterdam Economics. According to Franz Oppenheimer, the state is generated in a series of six stages. One or more of these stages may be omitted and still allow for the genesis of a state, as Oppenheimer attests with aid of historical evidence (his historical citations are way too involved to reproduce here,…