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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Chapter 11 – I, Pencil
Table of ContentsPrevious – Section Two – Chapter 10 – “Secular Theocracy” by David J. Theroux 11 I, Pencil by Leonard E. Read I am a lead pencil – the ordinary wooden pencil familiar to all boys and girls and adults who can read and write. Writing is both my vocation and my avocation; that’s all…
Chapter 10 – Secular Theocracy
Table of ContentsPrevious – Section Two – Chapter 9 – “For Conscience’s Sake” by Carl Watner 10 Secular Theocracy by David J. Theroux Part 1 We live in an increasingly secularized world of massive and pervasive nation states in which traditional religion, especially Christianity, is ruled unwelcome and even a real danger on the basis…
Chapter 9 – For Conscience’s Sake
Table of ContentsPrevious – Section Two – Chapter 8 – “The Historical Origins of Voluntaryism” by James Luther Adams 9 For Conscience’s Sake by Carl Watner George Smith, in his essay “Philosophies of Toleration,’’ reviews the history of freedom of religion and identifies the moral axiom of “righteous persecution,” which has been part of most…
Chapter 4 – The Anatomy of the State
Table of Contents Previous – Section One – Chapter 3, “Fundamentals of Voluntaryism” by Carl Watner 4 The Anatomy of the State by Murray N. Rothbard What the State Is Not The State is almost universally considered an institution of social service. Some theorists venerate the State as the apotheosis of society; others regard it…
Everything Voluntary – Foreword
Previous – Table of Contents Foreword Voluntaryism is a simple concept and one many people agree with superficially. Ask most people if they believe in forcing an individual to act according to another’s whim and they are likely to say “No.” “Live and let live,” or “Do unto others as you would have them do…
Everything Voluntary – Voluntaryist Resources
Table of ContentsPrevious – Section One – Chapter 6 – “Charity in the Land of Individualism” by John D. Fargo Voluntaryist Resources Books The Ethics of Liberty, by Murray Rothbard“First published in 1982, The Ethics of Liberty is a masterpiece of argumentation, and shockingly radical in its conclusions. Rothbard says that the very existence of…
Re: A Moral Challenge
I am getting increasingly frustrated because so very few seem to comprehend my moral argument that taxation is theft. Even members of my own family don’t seem to get it. It appears to me that there are two components to the argument that taxation is theft.First is the moral argument: If you define theft as…
Government Laid Bare
The true nature of Government laid bare in one masterful paragraph… It is time now to bring the State into our discussion. The State is a group of people who have managed to acquire a virtual monopoly of the use of violence throughout a given territorial area. In particular, it has acquired a monopoly of…
Origin of Everything-Voluntary
Post by Skyler J. Collins. Alright so, I’ve started this website and listed out the topics I’d like it to cover, all really without any explanation of how they relate or why I believe they’re all important. Let’s do that. Once-upon-a-time, I was what I consider now to be a Socialist-Democrat. I was a “teenager”…