By Ben on May 21, 2010
Posted in Featured Posts, History, Philosophy, Politics | Tagged agorism, anarchism, corporations, direct action, elitism, eugenics, globalism, incrementalism, Milton Meyer, political activism, politics |
"…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 [...]
By Ben on May 21, 2010
Posted in News and Views, Politics | Tagged agorism, anarchism, BP, C4SS, capitalism, corporations, free market, Kevin Carson, libertarianism, oil spill, Paul Krugman, political activism, Rand Paul, regulation |
Kevin Carson of C4SS has posted an excellent analysis of political/corporate enmeshment, related specifically to the recent Gulf oil spill.
Carson discusses how regulations most often work out to the benefit of the entities they are supposed to regulate, and how such entanglement and backscratching precludes the effectiveness of libertarians working “within the system.”
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Politics as a [...]
By Ben on May 17, 2010
Posted in Featured Posts, Politics | Tagged activism, ChipIn, civil disobedience, donate, George Donnelly, legal, support |
We posted an alert that fellow traveler and activist George Donnelly had been kidnapped by state thugs for the “crime” of videotaping state agents as they attempted to intimidate activists who were distributing jury nullification literature.
Fortunately, George has now been released. Unfortunately, he still faces a legal battle. Please go to George’s blog and help [...]
By Ben on May 13, 2010
Posted in Featured Posts, News and Views, Politics | Tagged action, activism, C4SS, civil disobedience, Fr33 Agents, George Donnelly, jury nullification, politics, prison, state violence, video camera |
JustLive has posted articles written by George Donnelly, and we have now learned that he has been kidnapped by state thugs.
Fr33 Agent contributor, Voluntaryist activist and blogger George Donnelly was mugged and kidnapped by US Marshalls yesterday and is reportedly being held in theFederal Government’s Detention Center in Philadelphia. Please call 215-521-4000 to politely but [...]
By Ben on May 13, 2010
Posted in Philosophy, Politics | Tagged C4SS, definition, Gary Chartier, ideologies, Mike Gogulski, quiz, test |
Center for a Stateless Society (C4SS) has put out a new quiz, meant to serve as a more well-rounded and thorough alternative to many of the other “political quizzes” (such as the Political Compass) that are currently bouncing around the Interwebs.
Mike Gogulski introduces the quiz as follows:
Dear C4SS readers, supporters and friends,
I am very pleased [...]
By Ben on May 11, 2010
Posted in News and Views, Politics | Tagged 420, action, activism, civil disobedience, Free Keene, Free State Project, marijuana, police, protest |
Cannabis Culture tells the tale of pro-pot civil disobedience in Keene, New Hampshire.
The results of these persistent actions are a testament to the idea that ignoring ridiculous laws is far more important and effective than trying to use the political apparatus to change them.
Keene is a quaint little New England town, surrounded by forested hills [...]
By Ben on May 5, 2010
Posted in Featured Posts, News and Views, Physical, Politics | Tagged collapse, Dmitry Orlov, economy, off-grid, prediction, preparedness, presentation, society, survival, USA, USSR |
As an eye-witness to the collapse of the Soviet Union, Dmitry Orlov wished to “put [his] observations into a concise message” for an American audience. These observations surround his concern over “the lack of collapse-preparedness here in the United States [compared to] the situation in the Soviet Union, prior to its collapse.”
Orlov put these concerns [...]
By Ben on April 30, 2010
Posted in News and Views, Politics | Tagged Alex R Knight, anarchism, C4SS, consent, government, poll, popular opinion |
Alex R. Knight of C4SS posted this hopeful and encouraging article. In it, he discusses just how much people are beginning to wake up to the fact that the government is anything but consensual.
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The Imminent Demise of Government
by Alex R. Knight III
Rasmussen Reports just published an article with some very interesting statistics online, things [...]
By Ben on April 22, 2010
Posted in History, Politics | Tagged Albert J Nock, Constitution, LvMI, Thomas Jefferson |
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 [...]
By Ben on April 15, 2010
Posted in Finances, News and Views, Politics | Tagged confrontation, protest, taxes, video |
It being “tax day” and all, I thought it would be apropos to post this video of a cadre of market-anarchists confronting a tax collector; and basically asking him how he sleeps at night — amongst other pointed questions.
From Last Blog on Earth:
This week’s CityBeat takes a brief look at San Diego’s local “Voluntaryist” movement, that [...]
By Ben on April 11, 2010
Posted in Featured Posts, Politics | Tagged agorism, failures, Libertarian Party, minarchism, partyarchy, political activism |
Brad Spangler posted this sobering take on a poll taken by Liberty magazine in 2008. It shows — very clearly — just how much damage the idea of minarchism and partyarchy do to the goal of real change, which is the dissolution of the state.
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Liber-FAIL-ian: Minarchism and partyarchy as opportunity cost
by Brad Spangler
The 2008 Liberty [...]
By Ben on April 9, 2010
Posted in Featured Posts, Philosophy, Politics | Tagged agorism, C4SS, Coffee Party, Kevin Carson, partyarchy, politics, strategy, tactics |
Kevin Carson has posted Part Three of his series, Reformist Political Action as a Diversion on Campaign for a Stateless Society (see Part One, and Part Two).
In this series Carson explores the futility of — as Samuel Edward Konkin III put it: “…the anti-concept of pursuing libertarian ends through statist means, especially political parties.”
In [...]
