Nonetheless, by reflecting further on Etienne de La Boetie's key insight about the politics of authority, the will to bondage, and the eager embrace of voluntary servitude, and by devising an ingenious test for their influence on the ordinary individual, Stanley Milgram made an important contribution to the libertarian tradition.
The important concept is putting our money where our mouths are if we wish to see land used the way we want it to be, and letting local people sort out their own local issues on the local stage.
Marx and Engels failed to see that tools and machines are themselves products of the operation of the human mind.
"The state enacts vague legislation and then makes the taxpayer pay for its interpretation."
English justifications of absolutism stressed time and again that the subjects must obey the king in any and all circumstances, whether or not the
"And therefore whosoever rebelleth against any ruler either good or bad, rebelleth against GOD, and shall be sure of a wretched end."
There is no such thing as interests independent of ideas, preceding them temporally and logically.
it is only when great and good men are at the head of a nation that the people can expect to succeed in forming such barriers to counteract recent encroachments on their rights; and whenever a nation is so supine as to suffer such an opportunity to be lost, they will soon feel that the danger was not over.
Marx and Engels, two men of unquestionable bourgeois background, hatched the class ideology of the proletarian class.
