PREFACE

INTRODUCTION:

WHY I AM AN
ANARCHO-CAPITALIST

A GREAT MANY PEOPLE — more than ever, probably — describe themselves as supporters of the free market today, in spite of the unrelenting propaganda against it. And that’s great. Those statements of support, however, are followed by the inevitable but: but we need government to provide physical security and dispute resolution, the most critical services of all.

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THE WAR SYSTEM

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THE WAR ON DRUGS

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THE ASSAULT ON OUR LIBERTIES

WE’VE ALREADY SEEN SEVERAL areas in which the State is making war on us. Unfortunately, there are many others — we can’t get away from them. In this chapter, we’ll look at a few more.

One of the main ways our freedom has been taken away stems from a movement explicitly hostile to people. No, this is not a misprint — a very powerful ideology explicitly hates human beings and looks forward to wiping out much of the human race. I refer of course to the so-called environmentalist movement.

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THE BANKERS’ WAR ON AMERICA:
THE FED

DECEMBER 23, 2013 MARKED 100 years since Congress authorized the creation of the Federal Reserve System. Throughout that century the Fed has enjoyed broad bipartisan support. That’s another way of saying the Fed never appeared on the political radar until Ron Paul broke the rules by actually campaigning against it in 2007.

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AMERICAN FASCISM

EVERYONE KNOWS THAT THE term fascist is a pejorative, often used to describe any political position a speaker doesn’t like. There isn’t anyone around who is willing to stand up and say: “I’m a fascist; I think fascism is a great social and economic system.”

But I submit that if they were honest, the vast majority of politicians, intellectuals, and political activists would have to say just that.

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WHY NOT
LIMITED GOVERNMENT?

SO FAR, WE’VE SEEN THAT something is drastically wrong with the American State. The American State is a war state; it makes war both on foreign peoples and on our own people. The War on Drugs and the Patriot Act are only a few examples of what the State is doing to us. The Fed makes sure we have an unstable economy, and American Fascism is firmly locked in place. Things certainly look bad.

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HOW WOULD ANARCHY WORK?

DESPITE ALL THE PROBLEMS of the State, many of you are probably skeptical about anarchism. How would it work? We can’t give an answer that gives all the details of the institutions of anarcho-capitalism, but we can sketch out some of its main features. Those who want a more detailed account should read Rothbard’s The Ethics of Liberty.

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