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…
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Everything Voluntary – Free Market Resources
Table of ContentsPrevious – Section Three – Chapter 16 – “Agorist Living” by Nicholas Hooton Free Market Resources Books Economics in One Lesson, by Henry Hazlitt“A million copy seller, [this book] is a classic economic primer. But it is also much more, having become a fundamental influence on modern [free market] economics of the type…
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…
First Endorsements for the Book
Here are the first endorsements I’ve received for the book: “A wonderful selection of first-rate essays on one of the most important principles of civilized life—cooperating with people instead of controlling, taxing, dragooning, bullying or bombing them. Bravo, Skyler Collins!” – Lawrence W. Reed, president, Foundation for Economic Education. “This book contains a very useful,…
In Defense of Voting
This is not an official endorsement of the strategy of voting, but the below has certainly caused me to rethink my position. Our first foray into the topic of voting was made by Spencer Morgan. Here’s our next: I’ve heard many good arguments in opposition to voting. The arguments were so compelling that I adopted…
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…
Re: The Role of War in a Voluntaryist Society
Thank you Ben for that excellent essay on Just War Theory and voluntaryism. Murray Rothbard wrote a piece on libertarian theory of war that I’d like to add to your argument. An excerpt: The fundamental axiom of libertarian theory is that no one may threaten or commit violence (“aggress”) against another man’s person or property.…
There’s No Such Thing as “Identity Theft”
There’s no such thing as identity theft. When Person A claims to be Person B and obtains a loan, he’s defrauded the bank, not Person B. Person B is only harmed when the government fails to protect him from the bank that was defrauded. How so? Person A has defrauded the bank, not Person B.…
Should Voluntaryists Vote?
Guest post by Spencer Morgan. Earlier this week, I was asked a question by a local libertarian who is taking a close look at the philosophy of voluntaryism. His question as follows: “Should voluntaryists vote? The issue, as I see it, is that on the one hand, voting could be construed as a tacit recognition…
Thou Shalt Not Steal
Says Veresapiens, If the guiding principle shaping a society was “Thou Shalt Not Steal” (TSNS), what kind of government, legal, and social systems would the society have? Before we begin to answer that question, we need to review one important aspect of TSNS. If you ‘own’ something, it means that you have total control over…