Carson: The state is the instrument of armed force by which an economic ruling class extracts rents from the producing majority of a society.
David Van: All I know is that as long as one of us is chained, then none of us are free.
Less Antman: Anarchy is not a system. It is an attitude of respect for other people, and a rejection of master-slave relationships (with no exception for government officials).
The main thing is to end dependence on motor vehicles.
“We on the left need a good shake to get us thinking, and these arguments for market anarchism do the job in lively and thoughtful fashion.”
Alan Furth on several of the most important blindspots of the vulgar-libertarian view of Argentina and its recent history.
Carson: The natural effect of unfettered market competition is socialism.
Chartier: This year, vote for nobody.
Carson: Yet another reminder that corporate capitalism has nothing to do with a free market. It’s a system of state-assisted robbery by the rich and powerful.
We owe it to ourselves to become strong against such predators.
Ross Kenyon makes the case that libertarians, while very interested in economic theory, need to pay closer attention to political economy, history, and institutional analysis to make sure that they are applying theory where it appropriate to do so.
Carson: If Bitcoin isn’t the Messiah of the darknet economy, at the very least it’s John the Baptist preaching its immanent arrival.
Morgenstern: What if they built a factory and no one came?
Charles Davis: The long tradition of making the status quo more sustainable, its excesses more subtle.
Morgenstern: The simplest way to put it is that they’re all a bunch of crooks.
Bottom-up, do-it-yourself self-governance is what you wanted in the first place.
Morgenstern: The real dystopian blue print of our time is not 1984 or Brave New World, it’s Animal Farm.
Long: Does legalizing gay marriage go far enough?
scott crow: let’s try not to sink each other’s boats
Jeremy Weiland discusses Obamacare and politics as the continuation of war by other means.
