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False Realism and Utopianism

Conservatism is a defense of the existing order or past existing orders as "natural". Any potential alternative to the existing order or to the romantisized past order is immediately brushed aside as "unnatural" and "utopian"...

Posted 25 June 2008 10:26 PM by Brainpolice | 7 comment(s)

Filed under: Determinism, Collectivism, Social Evolution, Equality, Philosophy, Human Nature, conservatism, History, Vulgar Libertarianism, Marxism

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...

Posted 19 June 2008 11:13 AM by Brainpolice | 3 comment(s)

Filed under: Anarchism, Objectivism, Altruism, Religion, Atheism, Libertarianism, Philosophy, History, Monarchy

Left-Libertarianism

I consider myself a left-libertarian. To avoid any confusion over what this may imply, I fully support private property, voluntary exchange, money, rent, employment, and so on (or more strictly speaking, I don't advocate their abolition). And I completely...

Posted 26 May 2008 02:39 PM by Brainpolice | 26 comment(s)

Filed under: Centralization, Racism, Equality, Religion, Socialism, Libertarianism, Economics, old right, conservatism, Immigration, Nationalism, History, Vulgar Libertarianism

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...

Posted 05 May 2008 08:57 PM by Brainpolice | 6 comment(s)

Filed under: Anarchism, Competition, Subjective Value, Capitalism, Socialism, Economics, Philosophy, Free Association, Labor, History

The Nail in the Coffin of "The Right"

It is common for many libertarians, especially those in America, to assume that they have a natural alliance with "the right". This is based on certain assumptions, such as the notion that contemporary libertarianism grew out of the old American...

Posted 25 April 2008 04:54 PM by Brainpolice | 5 comment(s)

Filed under: Racism, Collectivism, Religion, Capitalism, Socialism, Libertarianism, Economics, Philosophy, conservatism, Corporatism, liberalism, Nationalism, History

Two Philosophies of History

Political philosophies often involve views of history. There seems to be two fundamental views of history, as I have touched on in " Traditionalism as Stagnation " and " Radicalism and Moderation ". These two views are what I would...

Posted 12 April 2008 04:02 PM by Brainpolice | with no comments

Filed under: Social Evolution, Slavery, Libertarianism, Philosophy, Human Nature, History

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