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[quote user="JCFolsom"]Coercion rather implies initiation. I would not call self-defense coercion. Land ownership is a territorial monopoly on force. I am unconvinced that the anarcho-capitalist model actually eliminates coercive force. It might just distribute it better, for a time.[/quote...
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[quote user="krazy kaju"]If you're not an anarchist you're a statist.[/quote] What about tribalists, feudalists etc. ? I do not think one should limit the definitions to their positioning in current Western Thinking. There were political philosophies, before the rise of the modern state...
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Walter Block recently wrote an article at LewRockwell.com on the topic of religion and state. He critisizes what he considers to be an irrational hatred of religion that many libertarians have apparently inherented from Ayn Rand. While he is an atheist himself, he defends the premise that religion is...
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Gosh, don't you know? Anarchism would cause those evil capitalists to enslave all normal people and starve to death poor children who are not fit enough to work! LOL You simply have to point out that government intervention always harms the economy. All forms of government intervention prevent the...
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Theism is not the only kind of mysticism. Collectivist and political ideologies are also forms of mysticism. The nature of politics involves blind faith in a "highest essence". The abstractions of these "highest essences" function as arbitrary authorities to appeal to. The most common...
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On another thread in the forums someone mentioned comics/graphic storytelling/whatever you want to call it as a means to communicate anarcho-capitalist ideas to the wider world. As an art major, I started thinking about how I could accomplish this. Comics lend themselves well to communicating ideas,...
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Social evolution can be thought of in terms of increased complexity . Simple forms of organization are uniliteral and homogenous, while more complexity in an organizational structure implies pluralism . Increased plurality, combined with a finite number of variables or resources to work with, implies...
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As I have argued before, democracy in the sense of majoritarianism or a political system of phony oligarchal representation inherently violates liberty. I have also tried to emphasize that all states are inherently exclusive and out of the control of "the people" at large by the very nature...
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Okay - in another forum, a side issue came up, largely because of my ignorance. While I'd love to discuss the possibilities, all of the anarchists I've encountered to date have been nihilists, with no coherent idea of how anarchist society would work. Finding a self-identified anarchist with...
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One of the most well known American legal traditions is state's rights. State's rights is essentially the idea that each individual state should retain its sovereignty or independance from the federal government. The idea is that each state may have its own varying laws and precedents that the...