Download: Destroying the Master’s House With the Master’s Tools: Some Notes on the Libertarian Theory of Ideology This paper considers, more specifically, liberatory or nonstate ideology as a weapon against power and exploitation. As described by Scott, Zomian religion frequently borrows from the same pool of myths and cultural themes as the dominant religion in state spaces. But it…

A Comunidade Islandesa, assentada desproporcionadamente por pequenos detentores em fuga de crescentes imposições do rei e da nobreza, era uma população zomiana com a qual muitos libertários estão familiarizados. Os assentamentos islandeses descritos nas Sagas tiveram lugar numa época na qual reis da Escandinávia continental “estavam aumentando sua autoridade a expensas dos direitos tradicionais dos…

Download: Destroying the Master’s House With the Master’s Tools: Some Notes on the Libertarian Theory of Ideology [PDF] The Icelandic Commonwealth, settled disproportionately by small holders fleeing the growing impositions of the king and nobility, was a Zomian population many libertarians are familiar with. The Icelandic settlements recounted in the Sagas took place at a time when kings on the Scandinavian mainland “were…

Há algum tempo vem sendo consenso entre historiadores do Israel primevo que a completa conquista de Canaã e os resultantes domínios tribais descritos no Livro de Josué foi anacrônica — uma projeção no passado de um estado de coisas geográfico que só existiu depois que a monarquia havia derrotado os filisteus e a população israelita…

Download: Destroying the Master’s House With the Master’s Tools: Some Notes on the Libertarian Theory of Ideology For some time it has been the consensus among historians of early Israel that the thoroughgoing conquest of Canaan and resulting tribal domains described in the Book Joshua was anachronistic—a projection onto the past of a geographical state of affairs that existed…

Comumente olhamos para uma ideologia da perspectiva da classe dominante, como ferramenta de legitimação. A ideologia, entanto, serve igualmente aos propósitos dos dominados — como guia para ação no interesse de sua classe. As ideologias respectivamente dos dominantes e dos dominados tendem a ser interdependentes. A ideologia oficial legitimadora de uma classe dominante apela para…

Download: Destroying the Master’s House With the Master’s Tools: Some Notes on the Libertarian Theory of Ideology [PDF] We commonly look at ideology from the perspective of the ruling class, as a legitimizing tool. But ideology serves the purposes of the ruled, as well—as a guide to action in their class interest. The respective ideologies of rulers and…

Destroying the Master’s House With the Master’s Tools: Some Notes on the Libertarian Theory of Ideology [PDF] We commonly look at ideology from the perspective of the ruling class, as a legitimizing tool. But ideology serves the purposes of the ruled, as well—as a guide to action in their class interest. The respective ideologies of rulers and…

Higgs: Wishful thinking about the impending triumph of liberty may be uplifting for libertarians, but it avails neither them nor the world anything of real importance.

Darian Worden on asking important questions.