Charles Johnson: If libertarianism needs to slim down, which specific varieties of thickness does it need to avoid—and what’s the health benefit to doing so?
Nathan Goodman: While politicians repeatedly promise to protect public health, they have long used coercive power to raise medical costs, sacrificing public health for private profits.
Knapp: 23,000 submissions, 18 pickups, onward and upward!
Roderick Long: I’m hoping to make you puzzled about a problem that has puzzled me on and off over the years. Misery loves company, I suppose —
Ron Paul, internationalist statist monopolist.
This machine kills intellectual monopolists.
For every copy of “Markets Not Capitalism” that you purchase through the Distro, C4SS will receive a percentage.
Kevin Carson: If you can get past the flaws in Shermer’s book (things others might prefer to think of as my fixations, hangups, and dead horses), it’s quite an enjoyable read.
Sheldon Richman: Swartz was a passionate champion of technology’s power to liberate and democratize. He vowed to fight anything which threatened that potential. This offended powerful vested interests.
Carson: The people who hounded Aaron Swartz to his death did so, not even in the realistic hope of victory, but out of the same vindictive impulse that drives a defeated invader to inflict one more indignity on the violated country on its way out.
A fully freed market means liberating essential command posts in the economy from State control, to be reclaimed for market and social entrepreneurship
Carson: To the lords of artificial scarcity, who derive their income from impeding producers’ ability to produce, natural abundance is a danger.
“And now they’ve sold off all the splints, and contracted out the tourniquets, And if we jump through hoops, then we might just survive.”
Kevin Carson: “The central function of the state is to suppress competition, create artificial property, and enable economic ruling classes to extract rents.”
The growing irrelevance of conventional measures of economic output to our actual material conditions of living has been a recurring theme in recent years.
Kevin Carson: It means we’re in for some interesting times.
Those who see government power and corporate power as being in conflict, and those who seem them as being in cahoots, each have a point.
Because in a free society, billionaires like Buffett might have to learn to work for a living.
The availability of public space may be a moral precondition for the right to freedom from trespassers.
Dawie Coetzee: How Innovation is Used to Advance the Interests of the State-Industrial Machine.
