Written by Yaël Ossowski for TheStatelessMan.com. There are common sentiments which befall those who attempt to inform others of the excesses and abuses of government force. Despite campaigning on the virtues of personal liberty in the political realm, recommending books, literature, and videos in social settings, and bringing forward economic data, historical comparisons, and empirically-tested…
Category: Voluntaryism
Law and Intellectual Property in a Stateless Society
Written by Stephan Kinsella for LibertarianPapers.org. Abstract: An ethic of self-ownership combined with Lockean homesteading of external resources provides a plausible grounding both for anarchist opposition to the state and for an attractive anarchist legal order. Such an ethic can be understood as specifying that each person prima facie has the right to control his…
The Right to Self-Defense
Written by Andrew Napolitano for LewRockwell.com. In all the noise caused by the Obama administration’s direct assault on the right of every person to keep and bear arms, the essence of the issue has been drowned out. The president and his big-government colleagues want you to believe that only the government can keep you free…
The Separation of X and State
Written by Rollo McFloogle for Inside McFloogle’s Mind. While reading The Privatization of Roads and Highways, the author, Walter Block, discusses the unwillingness of people to even begin to think about the complete privatization of roads, which are widely considered to be a public good. The point of the book is to quell these concerns…
The Methods of Nonviolent Action
Written by Gene Sharp, as published at PeaceMagazine.org. The Methods of Nonviolent Protest and Persuasion FORMAL STATEMENTS Public speeches Letters of opposition or support Declarations by organizations and institutions Signed public declarations Declarations of indictment and intention Group or mass petitions COMMUNICATIONS WITH A WIDER AUDIENCE Slogans, caricatures, and symbols Banners, posters, and displayed communications…
To Free One’s Mind
Written by Jeffrey Tucker for FEE.org. People often ask me, “When did you become an anarchist?” It’s not an easy question to answer. Deep changes in one’s intellectual outlook do not happen overnight. You first entertain the idea. Then you assess its plausibility. You might even embrace the idea fully, but only in the abstract.…
What’s Immoral for the Private Goose Is Moral for the Government Gander?
Written by Robert Higgs for Independent.org. Why do so many people consider certain actions to be immoral if taken by private persons, but not immoral—perhaps even morally praiseworthy—if taken by government officials? One possibility is that people have become accustomed to government officials’ taking certain actions (e.g., getting income by insisting that people either hand…
Anarchy, State, and Gun Ownership
Written by David Greenwald for Mises.org. The controversy over whether the Federal Government should ban the possession by citizens of certain types, or all types, of firearms has been raging back and forth for a very long time. I remember as a child seeing news coverage of horrific acts of violence involving firearms. I also…
Political Problems Have Only One Real Solution
Written by Robert Higgs for Independent.org. Eldridge Cleaver famously declared, “You’re either part of the solution or you’re part of the problem.” Although I did not agree with this sentiment in its original context, it has more definite applicability in regard to what one might think of as “solving political problems.” Notice, first, that politics…
Government, a Force of Nature
Written by Paul Bonneau for Strike-The-Root.com. When I go outside this time of year, I get cold. I compensate by getting a coat on, and then go about my business. This is the standard way of dealing with forces of nature. I don’t spend a lot of time lying in bed wishing it weren’t cold.…