History is the only laboratory we have in which to test the consequences of thought… and we’ll be doing a lot of testing. Stories of success, or failure, and of how we got where we are today – and how to fix that.
In 2001, three years before his death, SEK III provided the website Libertarian Peacenik, with a brief history of the new libertarian philosophy that emerged after the movement split in 1969.
In July 1969, the Students for a Democratic Society split in Chicago four ways and the Anarchists were purged. Over Labor Day Young Americans for Freedom split. [...]
The personal philosophy of anarchism and agorism, are showing significant growth from political activists who have been engaged with the state for the last decade. The journey towards this political philosophy occurred independently and simultaneously, between me and Ben, the co-founder of JustLive. We also noticed this trend amongst those we interact with on social networks and [...]
Oscar winning documentary on freedom activist Karl Hess.
Via Wikipedia
Hess began reading American anarchists largely due to the recommendations of his friend Murray Rothbard. Hess said that upon reading the works of Emma Goldman he discovered that anarchists believed everything he had hoped the Republican Party would represent, and that Goldman was the source for [...]
"…The [Nazi] dictatorship, and the whole process of its coming into being, was above all diverting. It provided an excuse not to think for people who did not want to think anyway… Most of us did not want to think about fundamental things and never had. There was no need to. Nazism gave us some [...]
In this award-winning, feature length, two-hour broadcast-quality documentary you will learn about the latest developments in the field of Free and Zero Point Energy from Tesla to Dennis Lee.
Hosted by Bill Jenkins, formerly of ABC Radio, this comprehensive documentary features physicists and inventors who are challenging orthodox science to bring this non-polluting technology forward despite [...]
In this excerpt from his book, Jefferson, Albert J. Nock pulls no punches in his debunking of the commonly held myth that the Constitution and its signatories were altruistically focused on the goal of “freedom for all mankind.”
Rather, as the excerpt points out, they were more interested in freedom for their kind of man.
the [...]
Kevin Carson has posted an in-depth and very well-rounded take on the nature of the cooperative economy in Salinas, Ecuador.
Massimo de Angelis of the editor’s blog has a fascinating story about the cooperative economy in the Salinas region of the Ecuadorian Andes. The Salinas area, a region centering on the village of the same [...]
And in southern Asia, stretching from the Vietnamese highlands up into the Tibetan plateau and as far west as Afghanistan, would be a single sprawling mountain realm that is home to more than 100 million people. This is Zomia.
Zomia is a rugged swath of Asia that for 2,000 years has remained culturally aloof from the [...]
In another excellent example of historical, market-anarchist societies, the Journal of Libertarian Studies put out this 21-page paper regarding the true nature of life in “Wild West” America. It is well worth the time to read, and covers the common misconceptions that life in that time and place was a chaotic, gun-slingin’ murder-fest. In fact, [...]
In this article from Gold-Eagle.com, Larry LaBorde lays out the rise and fall of the H.L. Hunt family and their stormy relationship with the global silver market.
Most of the article is a very informative historical accounting of the lengths the Hunt family went to to acquire godly sums of silver as a hedge against possible [...]
It being census time, I figured this post would be apropos. This article on John Gilmore’s website outlines the ways the census has been used and abused in the past, and how it could be abused again.
The article also discusses how “the Department of Homeland Security asked the Census Bureau in 2003 for details [...]
In this article: Privatization, Viking Style: Model or Misfortune? author Roderick T. Long posts an compelling counter-argument to Jared Diamond’s characterization of the Icelandic Free State period as “as a nightmarish vision of privatization run amuck.”
On the contrary, it not only wasn’t it a nightmare, it was downright inspiring:
“Medieval Iceland had no bureaucrats, no taxes, [...]
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