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  • 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 people" at large by the very nature...
    Posted to Brainpolice by Brainpolice on Sun, May 11 2008
    Filed under: Anarchism, Democracy, Representation, Individual Sovereignty, Consent, Free Association
  • What Is Democracy? Part One: Democracy Is Slavery

    This is part one in a three part series: democracy is slavery, democracy is impossible and democracy is liberty. Democracy Is Slavery By the phrase "democracy is slavery", I refer to the tyranny that inevitably arises from the principles of majoritarianism and communalism. One standard definition...
    Posted to Brainpolice by Brainpolice on Sun, Mar 16 2008
    Filed under: Ethics, Universality, Consistancy, Utilitarianism, Collectivism, Majoritarianism, Democracy, Individual Sovereignty, Consent, Slavery
  • Liberty as a Lack of Unchosen Positive Obligations

    And a lack of a gaurantee of survival and flourishing There are two fundamental ways in which liberty and rights can be defined. One definition of liberty is the freedom to use one's faculties in order to persue one's rational self-interest without infringement by others. This is a negativistic...
    Posted to Brainpolice by Brainpolice on Wed, Jan 23 2008
    Filed under: Ethics, Discrimination, Altruism, Individual Sovereignty, Consent, Libertarianism, Philosophy
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