The typical Left vs. Right political spectrum is a false dichotomy. Both the political Left and Right use force to mold people in society against their will. Donald Boudreaux analyzes this and explains a better political spectrum in chapter 2 of Everything Voluntary. But politics does not have a monopoly on false dichotomies. Another one…
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Voluntaryist Literature
I’ve added this big list of voluntaryist literature (including my own at the bottom) to the Voluntaryism tab under Recommended Books. Check it out!
Price: The Most Powerful Tool
Guest post by Beetle559. The most powerful tool we have as a species is the “price”. Nothing will advance society further than the recognition of the fact that we need to let prices be what prices are before we can thrive. The price is a tool, it is not an enemy that needs to be…
Peaceful Parenting Begins with Love
And what better way to plant and build the tree of love than by following this list of habits to strengthen your relationship with your children? I’d say I’m measuring up pretty well considering I work 70 hours a week. If I can do it, so can you. Your children deserve it.
War, War, & More War
Via the 10th Amendment center, here’s a great essay on the many and dangerous wars that government (almost everywhere and at every level) is waging against it’s supposed masters, “the people.” These wars are real and they are deadly. Let’s end them all.
What it Means to be an Anarcho-Capitalist
Guest post by Stephan Kinsella. Originally published at LewRockwell.com, January 20th, 2004. Butler Shaffer’s recent LRC article, What is Anarchy?, prompted discussion on the Reason blog and inspired me to set down a few ideas I’ve also had along these lines. Libertarian opponents of anarchy are attacking a straw man. Their arguments are usually utilitarian…
Laying Hands on the Sacred
“Just as the schoolmen philosophized only inside the belief of the church…without ever throwing a doubt upon this belief; as authors fill whole folios on the State without calling in question the fixed idea of the State itself, as our newspapers are crammed with politics because they are conjured into the fancy that man was…
Equality’s Greatest Enemy
Kevin Carson writes about how coercion always creates inequality. And if you didn’t already know, the state’s very existence depends on and is maintained by coercion. Therefore, the state is naturally an enemy of equality. Remember that before bowing down to the state to ask for it’s help in bringing about equality. Also remember that…
End of the Nation-State
Doug Casey hits a home run with this article at LRC. Yes, the Nation-State is illegitimate and evil, and as more people come to that realization, directly via education or indirectly via counter-economies, the sooner it joins it’s brothers, Monarchy and Communism, in the ash-heap of history. The day can’t come soon enough. In the…
Spanking is Far Worse than Simply “Beating Up” Someone
I absolutely love this rant by throwaway-o on the anarcho-capitalism subreddit. Here it is in full: Starting from the most fundamental basics: “spanking” (a term used to describe a certain particular form of initiation of violence) is an initiation of violence, and therefore it is an obvious and open violation of the NAP. There is…