By Roderick T. Long Cross posted here from Bleeding Heart Libertarians. I strongly disagree with the suggestion by Jason, Ilya, and others to rename May Day “Victims of Communism” Day. The fact that Communist regimes have attempted to co-opt May Day is no reason to imitate them in a second co-opting attempt. May Day not only originally [...]
If you want to understand why 15 people at Penn State didn’t report child rapes . . .
Bruce Bawer, writing in the Wall Street Journal, is upset that the Oslo mass murder might make people who advocate bloodthirsty anti-Muslim hysteria seem like people who advocate bloodthirsty anti-Muslim hysteria.
Maricopa County, Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio is literally roasting prisoners alive.
It’s common in cases where defiance of the state is carried out for commentors to voice suspicions that the whole spectacle is a farce or “black op”… However, it’s easy to overstate such concerns. Here’s why…
The primary flaw in the notion of constitutional constraints on government power is that the very nature of any political government is monopoly.
Over at ThinkProgress, notorious right-winger Matthew Yglesias is letting his Hamiltonian-Bismarckian colors fly with the post “Debt Ceiling Fight Risks Squandering The Legacy Of America’s First And Best Bailout”.
Here’s a very terse market anarchist take on just about any police abuse/accountability story…
It’s a pocketbook issue!
From an anarchist perspective, there are a huge number of problems with Senator Rand Paul, who’s obviously no anarchist — but when he’s at least partly right, he’s at least partly right.
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.
