Left Libertarian, Right Libertarian

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. You may have heard about the political philosophy known is “left libertarianism.” This philosophy mostly agrees with all of the political…

Intellectual Property Cannot Be Property

Editor’s Pick. Written by Joseph Diedrich. What is property? More specifically, at its essential theoretical core, beyond the artifice of legal fiat, what is property? Somewhat broadly, property is anything that satisfies each of the following requirements: property is scarce; property possesses objective (intersubjectively ascertainable) borders; and property has a determinable temporal genesis. The theory…

Self-Ownership as Self-Determination

Send him mail. “One Voluntaryist’s Perspective” is an original column appearing every other Monday at Everything-Voluntary.com, by the founder and editor Skyler J. Collins. Archived columns can be found here. OVP-only RSS feed available here. That “self-ownership” is axiomatic or the bedrock of many a libertarian theory cannot be denied. However, there are many libertarians…

Re: Independence Day

Commenting on my latest column “Violence-Born Independence Day,” Carl Watner wrote: While the emphasis on how many people wanted independence and how many wanted to remain loyal to the king is interesting, it is really irrelevant to the voluntaryist position. Majority rule cannot override individual rights. It would not make any difference if 99% wanted…