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My Journey to Anarchy

Written by Justin and is a re-publication of his work from his website LibertyHangout.org. Not too long ago, I was a staunch warhawk and neoconservative. While I coaxed myself as a “small government...

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The Force Which Shapes The World

Written by Linda and Morris Tannehill. But a discussion of how government could be dismantled and how free men could then build a laissez-faire society out of the pieces still doesn’t answer the...

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Property & Homesteading

Written by Christophe Cieters. Along with and resulting from self-ownership there is another central concept which lies at the core of all capitalist ideologies.[1] Private property in its capitalist...

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PorcFest 2015: An Embodiment of Freedom and Spontaneous Order

PorcFest represents a microcosm of the world that freedom-seekers want to build. It is a freewheeling and peaceful gathering of libertarians and anarchists and their families. It is where they...

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The Hidden History of the Congo

Written by Daniel Hawkins. This week marks the 130th anniversary of the founding of the Congo Free State. While not widely recognized as a genocide, the Congo Free State lost 50% of its population (at...

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American Mass Murder

Written by P.A. The vast majority of people from all walks of life understand murder is wrong. Mass murder especially so. Yet, for reasons that are not clear to this vast majority, they justify many...

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On Morality

Written by Christophe Cieters. Hitherto we have discussed the general reasoning behind the basic principles of libertarian morality (self-ownership, homesteading – i.e. negative liberty). It now seems...

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Looking Beyond Gay Marriage

Written by P.A. Human perspective (the WAY we view a situation) is paramount when communicating ideas. So when I say (and truly believe) that the SCOTUS gay-marriage court ruling was a “horrible”...

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A Biblical Case for Anarchy

Written by Chris Chew. This biblical analysis is directed to anyone who believes in the teachings of the Christian Bible and still supports “government”.  I hope this analysis and the questions that...

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Death and Taxes: Free Riding on Free Riding

Written by Christophe Cieters. Today it is nigh impossible to find a mainstream economics textbook that does not make the distinction between private goods and services on the one hand, “for which the...

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The Fundamental Flaw In Non-Anarchistic Libertarian Thought

The following is from guest-author Rand Eastwood. You can read more from Rand on his blog. It seems to me that the fundamental flaw in non-anarchistic libertarian thought—that the state is necessary,...

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For What It’s Worth

Written by Christophe Cieters. Not only is the moral and factual basis for public goods theory – and the supposed justification of State intervention and its inherent coercion – totally absent (as we...

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Upwork’s Unassisted Suicide

Written by Winter Trabex. For freelancers looking to make money online through non-traditional markets, oDesk and Elance provides an extraordinary opportunity to do so. For the first time, instead of...

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Purchasing Happiness

Written by Winter Trabex. Ludvig Von Mises once wrote: Inequality of wealth and incomes is the cause of the masses’ well-being, not the cause of anybody’s distress. Where there is a “lower degree of...

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Cloak and Dagger

Written by Christophe Cieters. The State is “nothing but men acting in concert”. The grounds for justification of State action can only be “the same principles which differentiate the proper from the...

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There Is No “Society”, There Are Only Individuals!

Written by Danilo Cuellar. This is what happens when we advocate for “government” which by definition puts the collective or “society” over the individual. The collective is never more important than...

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Politics Is A Waste Of Time

Written by Justin and is a re-publication of his work from his website LibertyHangout.org. Do you remember the time the slaves banded together to beg their masters for freedom and they succeeded? Or...

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Statist Fallacies: Corporations Would Take Over

Fallacy: “In a stateless or anarchist society, corporations would take over.” Response: Corporations are a product of the state. A corporation is a legal privilege granted by the state to limit...

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Those Who Embrace Socialism

Written by Winter Trabex. While South American economies all throughout the continent suffers downturns and collapses- particularly Venezuela- many people in America remain oblivious to the dangers of...

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Shooting the Messenger

Written by Christophe Cieters. Of course, nobody would deny that “it is true enough […] that a termination of the State’s current practice of providing public goods would imply some change in the...

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