Written by Carl Watner, as published in The Voluntaryist, August 1992. [Editor’s Note: The following was written by Carl Watner in fulfillment of a request by a private retail company to print their principles on their shopping bags. SJC] We believe that the following principles of ownership are self-evident: 1. Every person, by virtue of…
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Liberty: The Other Equality
Written by Roderick Long, as published at the Center for a Stateless Society. Equality is an ideal upheld by a number of ideologies, but nowadays it is seldom associated with libertarianism or classical liberalism. Indeed, both libertarians and their critics typically think of equality as an ideal in tension with the ideal of liberty as…
Waging War on Work
Written by Nicholas Freiling for Mises.org. Employment law is a mainstay of state economic policy. Few question its efficacy as a means to correct “market failures”—like unlivable wages for meaningful work—that would leave society in shambles. In fact, no serious debate exists among American policymakers about the benefits of such laws. Their utility is simply…
Beyond Patriarchy: A Libertarian Model of the Family
Written by Roderick Long, as published at the Center for a Stateless Society. The family is one of the issues that divide liberals from conservatives. In general, conservatives tend to see private associations — the family, the church, the corporation — as bulwarks of freedom against the state. Few conservatives question the need for a…
Ten Ways a Libertarian Society Would Be Different
Written by Jacob Hornberger for The Future of Freedom Foundation. How much would a libertarian society differ from the statist society in which we live? It would be radically different. Here are ten ways a libertarian society would be different: 1. No more welfare-state programs. A libertarian society would be one in which there is…
Natural Law and Authority
Written by Michael Bakunin, circa 1871, as published in The Voluntaryist, June 1992. What is authority? Is it the inevitable power of the natural laws which manifest themselves in the necessary concatenation and succession of phenomena in the physical and social worlds? Indeed, against these laws revolt is not only forbidden, it is impossible. We…
What Would a Free Society Look Like?
Written by Sandy Ikeda for The Freeman. From time to time someone asks me what I think a genuinely free society would look like. How would it be organized, and who, exactly, would build the roads? I know I’m not alone. My answer is always: I don’t know, and neither does anyone else. In a…
Control is War
Send him mail. “One Voluntaryist’s Perspective” is an original bi-weekly 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. War is clearly destructive. Even war fought totally in self-defense is destructive; destructive to life, liberty, and property. Murray…
When I Grow Up
Send him mail. “Insight for the Young and Unrestrained” is an original weekly column appearing every Thursday at Everything-Voluntary.com, by Gregory V. Diehl. Gregory is a writer, musician, educator, and coach for young people at EnabledYouth.com. Archived columns can be found here. IYU-only RSS feed available here. When they asked me what I wanted to…
Society
Writes Spontaneous Order: The whole reason why we form a society in the first place is to take advantage of the division of labor. We take advantage of this through exchange. Anything that coercively hinders the voluntary exchange between individuals of society is therefore anti-society. Contrary to popular belief, government, by it’s very nature, is…