If the Pulpit Freedom Summit succeeds, it will be a victory for free speech, but encouraging churchgoers to vote in elections only further entrenches the system of false choices in American politics.
Paul Krugman and Dinesh D’Souza both wander past the point that is always dying to be made: producers should own what they labor to create, and the status quo is not the product of a free market.
Ross Kenyon takes a look at how libertarians instantly and unfairly discount labor movements as statist, when they are truly just reacting against the original statism of capitalists. Libertarians should look at this in a more even-keeled light!
Ross Kenyon explains that Obama’s call for $50 billion to be spent on transportation infrastructure hurts local and regional businesses by subsidizing the transportation of goods from more distant firms, and thus further entrenches corporate domination of the marketplace.
Two models for analyzing government action are applied to net neutrality, and the saddening delusion that the state is here to protect the people from corporations rather than to expose the people to their predations is confronted.
Ross Kenyon explains that politicians like Newt Gingrich are ironically driving simultaneously boring and distracting issues into public discourse to get us to think of each other as members of groups and not as individuals.
Ross Kenyon explains that Wikileaks and Julian Assange delegitimize the state — not by begging our rulers to stop murdering people, but by exposing their criminal actions.
Ross Kenyon provides an example of why the most important functions of justice and protection are too important to allow coercive monopolies to provide them.
People who follow the law by virtue of it being a law are respecting power and not justice. This is a great danger to our communities and must be confronted here in Arizona and everywhere else.
Congressman John Boehner’s (R-OH) unimaginative straw man attack on the entire philosophy of anarchism falls flat; a disappointed Ross Kenyon reports.
Individualist Anarchism Against Bosses, Inequality, Corporate Power, and Structural Poverty
Ed. Gary Chartier & Charles W. Johnson
Individualist anarchists believe in mutual exchange, not economic privilege. They believe in freed markets, not capitalism. They defend a distinctive response to the challenges of ending global capitalism and achieving social justice: eliminate the political privileges that prop up capitalists.
By C4SS Advisory Panel member Gary Chartier. A compelling case for a stateless society.
Anarchy happens when people organize their lives peacefully and voluntarily, without state aggression. This simple but powerful book explains why the state is illegitimate, unnecessary and dangerous, and what we can do to begin achieving real freedom. Paperback, 129 pp.
