Button, Button, Who’s Got the Button Everyone has probably seen the commercials for the office supply company were all the person has to do is push the “easy” button and all their problems are solved. Every time I see that commercial I think about what Rothbard said in “Toward a Theory of Strategy of...
First Thoughts First, let me say that when I say "illegal immigration" it is just to differentiate the topic, not because I think any immigration is illegal or in any way different from any other immigration. My personal view (from an anarchist’s perspective) is that people can't be illegal...
I have heard it over and over. Excuses about why a collectivist society has always failed miserably. I have heard it so often that I have named it the "We Need More Time" excuse. "That wasn't true communism/socialism. If (insert excuse here) than it would have been a utopia."...
First Thoughts OK, my first thought is, “Why do people keep bringing up the children?” Even though I would have to guess that it is because they represent something to most people. So what do they represent? I think it is a deep rooted psychological problem that people have. They don’t even seem to know...
It is interesting how much power is in that one little word, “Public”. From where I am sitting, it is the word used to commit all kinds of atrocities in the US. The idea that there is some kind of collective greater good that can be imposed on people against their will is implied in the word. Private...
Its not uncommon to hear anarchists talking about what kind of laws would exist under freedom. Sometimes the distinction is even made between good laws, like the defense of property, and bad laws, like prohibition. But this discussion is fruitless because, while we can make some good guesses about how...
First, the question, then some background info: Q: What would happen, in the United States, if the government "went away" right now? Some friends and I had this discussion the other day, and one theory was that society would basically devolve into "warlord states", whereby whoever...
To make it perfectly clear: abstaining from voting is not a vote to abolish government. And if you wanted to pencil that in, you would still have to cast a ballot! To anarchists that refuse to use the political system as a tool to oppose the State, I poses this: If everyone person in America(besides...
Classic liberals, today often called minarchists, often talk about the legitimate functions of governments. Being libertarians, these people understand the nature of government is violence and coercion. Their various versions boil down to claiming the only legitimate government role is defending us and...