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Walter Block: Wrong on Religion
Walter Block recently wrote an article at LewRockwell.com on the topic of religion and state. He critisizes what he considers to be an irrational hatred of religion that many libertarians have apparently inherented from Ayn Rand. While he is an atheist...
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...
Does Social Evolution Necessitate Decentralization?
Social evolution can be thought of in terms of increased complexity . Simple forms of organization are uniliteral and homogenous, while more complexity in an organizational structure implies pluralism . Increased plurality, combined with a finite number...
Anarchism and Democracy
As I have argued before, democracy in the sense of majoritarianism or a political system of phony oligarchal representation inherently violates liberty. I have also tried to emphasize that all states are inherently exclusive and out of the control of...
The Paradox of "State's Rights"
One of the most well known American legal traditions is state's rights. State's rights is essentially the idea that each individual state should retain its sovereignty or independance from the federal government. The idea is that each state may...
Resolving Anarchist Conflict
Conflict between the socialist oriented and market oriented camps within anarchism can get very tedious. Many anarcho-communists and anarcho-syndicalists appear to emphatically claim that market anarchism isn't truly anarchism, that opposition to...
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...
The Anarcho-Statists
For quite some time now, Kevin Carson has critisized what he calls "vulgar libertarianism". Vulgar libertarian is a tendency of some libertarians, particularly those with an affinity for "the right", to function as apologists for currently...
An Apolitical Approach To Libertarianism
In the discussion and debate that goes on among libertarians, it is disputed as to wether or not libertarians should vote and participate in party politics. Some see voting as the only practical option, some think that there should be a multi-pronged...
A Left-Rothbardian Approach To "Privatization"
What exactly does it mean to "privatize" a service or industry? As I have argued before , there is a lot of confusion over the precise meaning of the terms "public" and "private" to begin with. The fact that state-controled...
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...
Re: Moral vs Hierarchical obligations
The following is a response to this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoXjrlxDSL4 Dear Mr1001Nights, Unchosen positive obligations are indeed slavery, which should be obvious because the obligations are not chosen. In claiming or bestowing unchosen...
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"...
Capitalism and Socialism: Strategic Dead Ends
Where have all the anarcho-anarchists gone? In his classic essay "Left and Right: The Prospects for Liberty", Murray Rothbard describes socialism as a "middle of the road doctrine" in that it supports political or conservative means...
"Vulgar" Libertarianism and Voluntary Socialism
From what I've been able to gather, "vulgar" libertarianism is a label applied to the tendency of some libertarians, particularly with right-wing sympathies, to defend currently existing property arrangements and corporations as if they...
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