Written by Marsha Friedman for LewRockwell.com. Mark, a hugely successful businessman by any measure, got his start at just 9 years old. He earned enough money to buy his own clothes, his bicycles and, eventually, to pay his way through college. He says that kind of success is available to any creative, industrious child today.…
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Peace or Politics
Guest post by Frank Chodorov. Originally published in The Voluntaryist, October 1988. Peace is the business of Society. Society is a cooperative effort, springing spontaneously from man’s urge to improve on his circumstances. It is voluntary, completely free of force. It comes because man has learned that the task of life is easier of accomplishment…
Make Money, Not War!
Guest post by Lorne Strider. Originally published in The Voluntaryist, June 1988. I have argued that business people, those who create and produce wealth, are acting morally, and that people who pretend to act in the public interest, i.e., government people, are the bad guys whose actions not only create no wealth, but actually destroy…
Trust Government, Not the Free Market
Guest post by Richard J. Maybury. Originally published in The Voluntaryist, June 1988. All this talk about liberty is exciting, but let’s get serious for a moment. The evidence shows clearly that liberty does not work. Many things are too important to be left to the whims of the free market. Imagine the chaos if…
Was Aesop a Voluntaryist?
Guest post by Carl Watner. Originally published in The Voluntaryist, February 1988. Many of us are probably familiar with the Fables, written by Aesop (620-560 B.C.), the Greek slave. It has been years since I read them, but recently a subscriber to The Voluntaryist suggested that I look at some of them. The following are two…
The Power of Non-Violent Resistance
Guest post by Jerry M. Tinker. Originally published in The Voluntaryist, August 1987. As many writers have noted, the basic thesis, or strategy, upon which Gandhi’s satyagraha and all non-violent resistance rests is that all structures of power – government and social organizations – always depend upon the voluntary cooperation of great numbers of people…
Re: 61.2 Percent
Writes Thomas Knapp: That’s my tentative estimate (based on Google election result and population statistics) of the percentage of Americans who voted for nobody for President of the United States on Tuesday. US President Barack Obama knocked down about 60.7 million votes.GOP challenger Mitt Romney polled about 57.8 million.Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson, 1.14 million.Green candidate…
Re: No Right to Complain?
Writes David Kramer: If you’re a voluntaryist, like I am, I’m sure that you’ve had some person at one time or another say to you, “If you don’t vote, then you have no right to complain.” But that person’s logic is backwards. If I don’t accept something to begin with (in this case, the institution…
Freedom: A Truly Unknown Ideal
What is truly new is economic freedom. As Molinari pointed out in the 19th century, this can really only be traced back two hundred years. Governments have always existed in one form or another. Let’s get rid of “the political means” once and for all if you want to achieve something new.
The Fundamentals of Nonvoting
Our rulers know they are illegitimate. Voluntaryists know they are illegitimate for a myriad of other reasons, but what I wanted to examine here is the voluntaryist’s position to abstain from electoral politics. The following arguments are the fundamentals of the nonvoting position.