Browse by Tags

All Tags » Anarchism » Collectivism (RSS)
Transcending Anarcho-Semantics
There is a reoccuring problem that occurs within internal libertarian and anarchist discourse that I like to call the anarcho-semantics problem. The anarcho-semantics problem most often occurs in discussions and debates between socialist oriented anarchists...
Posted 06 September 2008 11:49 AM by Brainpolice | 9 comment(s)
Filed under: , , , , , , ,
Politics Is The Opiate Of The Masses
Theism is not the only kind of mysticism. Collectivist and political ideologies are also forms of mysticism. The nature of politics involves blind faith in a "highest essence". The abstractions of these "highest essences" function...
Posted 03 June 2008 06:38 AM by Brainpolice | 3 comment(s)
Filed under: , , , , , ,
Definitions
So I put together some relatively witty definitions of my terms. If you're not offended by at least one of these, then you are awesome! Constitutionalism - The belief that a piece of paper drafted and signed by a tiny aristocracy of men is a legitimate...
Posted 18 April 2008 01:08 AM by Brainpolice | 4 comment(s)
Filed under: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
Secular Deities and the Problem of Humanism
An atheist criticism of contemporary secularism Most atheists and agnostics still have a religious mindset, only they have replaced the formal concept of a god with other concepts. In the absence of faith in an all-knowing and all-loving god outside of...
Posted 03 April 2008 12:17 AM by Brainpolice | 1 comment(s)
Filed under: , , , , , , ,
PaleoConservaNationalistTarians
There has been a lot of hooting and hollering lately in libertarian circles, particularly as it relates to the Ron Paul campaign. This seems to be representative of a broader conflict between "culturally left" and "culturally conservative"...
Posted 29 January 2008 03:50 PM by Brainpolice | 10 comment(s)
Filed under: , , , , , , , , , ,