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On Utopia
Utopia means, literally, “nowhere.” This idea is thrown at voluntaryists and anarchists as an argument that their vision for society could never exist. Because Utopia is and will always be “nowhere,” then the Utopians are those who champion a vision for society that can never exist. Stateless, anarchistic societies have existed before, proving their compatibility…
On Values
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The Failure of the Victimless Crime Gambit
Nobody asked but … One of the primary attributes of a voluntaryist’s behavior is its focus on effective action. We do not will I, nill I pursue missions antithetical to reality and nature. We look for the natural route. We cut to the root, the primary cause of a problem. So what is the root…
Words Poorly Used #17 — Victim
The place where I feel unease with the use of victim is in the idea of victimlessness. Strategically, I think it is a poor tactical argument to use against arbitrary legislation. If one’s complaint is against the proliferation and enforcement of victimless crime, then all the authoritarians need to do is to trump up a…
Words Poorly Used #13 — Machiavellian (Update)
OK, I stand corrected. Niccolo Machiavelli is not the culprit here. Although I still have a bit of a bone to pick with him as a court hanger-on, a minion of the ruling class. One of my greatest creative heroes, it’s true, also lived as a courtier, but Mozart did not advise on affairs of…
Humpty Dumpty II
Nobody asked but … You may be assured that somewhere behind Humpty Dumpty, among the King’s men, there is an Iago. He has put Humpty Dumpty on that wall. In Kentucky, we talk about a turtle on a fence post — we don’t know how he got there, but we know he did not do…
The Invisible Wall
Send him mail. “Food for Thought” is an original column appearing every other Tuesday at Everything-Voluntary.com, by Norman Imberman. Norman is a retired podiatrist who loves playing piano, writing music, lawn bowling, bridge, reading, classical music, going to movies, plays, concerts and traveling. He is not a member of any social network, nor does he…
Action, Faith, and Voluntaryism
Send him mail. “One Voluntaryist’s Perspective” is an original column appearing most Mondays at Everything-Voluntary.com, by the founder and editor Skyler J. Collins. Archived columns can be found here. OVP-only RSS feed available here. An axiom is a starting point of reasoning, or a premise. Ludwig von Mises discovered the action axiom. Paraphrased, the action…
On the Political Means
The use of violence to profit was called by Franz Oppenheimer, in The State, the “political means.” In contrast, peaceful trade and other voluntary actions he called “economic means.” The Ruling Class are those whose wealth is obtained via the political means. The “Left,” the “Right,” “liberals,” “conservatives,” “constitutionalists,” “centrists” and more are indistinct classifications…