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How Would a Stateless Society Stop an Invasion?

From a question to our Facebook page timeline. Response by Phillip Corbin. So if you really want no government over you, what would stop a foreign Nation from invading your land? How would you...

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Three Things Anarchists Know Historians Will Look Back on With Disgust

Most people look back on history with surprise, shock, and disgust. They know their forebears committed immoral acts and atrocities or were victims of these acts. Some groups are intimately acquainted...

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Upon the Conversion of Statists to Voluntaryism

Written by J.A. McDonald. The author was talking with others recently, trying to explain how government is a natural enemy of all freedom; that government is a tyrant, a usurper, a trickster who stole...

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Soviet Decentralization

Written by Winter Trabex. In 1987, at the height of his superstardom as a musician, Billy Joel decided to host a concert in Soviet Russia. This remains a historic concert for several reasons, the most...

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The Insanity of Cooking

Repost from a fan of our Facebook page. One exercise I’ve been refining with Statists, is to ask them to imagine that up until today, nobody has thought to cook food. It’s all eaten raw, so can’t be...

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Money: Rain Check

Written by Christophe Cieters. During the 14th century Renaissance in Northern Italy, banks as we know them today started to form in earnest. Gold and silver were still the dominant media of exchange;...

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Ratifying Violence

Written by Winter Trabex. For the first few years of America’s existence, the country did not have a Constitution. Rather, it had the Articles of Confederation. The Articles specified that most...

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Is Non-Voting an Indication of Apathy?

Written by Lisa DeLasho. Here’s why I don’t vote. It has NOTHING to do with apathy…in fact, it is quite the opposite. You see, I don’t vote because I actually DO care about what happens to,...

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A Glance at Plato and Hobbes: Why the State Implies Divinity

Submitted by M. Hall. Alfred North Whitehead, an English mathematician and philosopher, once said that Plato was the greatest philosopher in history, that all philosophical tomes ever written are mere...

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How to Fund Roads with Bitcoin

Written by Ray Whitledge. Anyone who has ever tried debating the merits of free markets over government monopolies has certainly run into the tired old question “But who will build the roads?” And...

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Monopoly Money

Written by Christophe Cieters. As money developed and people opted to place it in secured storage, banks started issuing bank notes which represented a client’s deposit at the bank and the promise to...

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Against Voting

Written by Jared Howe There are conditions under which victims can share responsibility for a crime. Following are three examples:  Three people are hiding in a closet because a home invader breaks...

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With the Stroke of a Pen

Written by Winter Trabex. The economic situation in Venezuela has been dire for some time now. Every day, a new report surfaces of what the country has run out of: toilet paper, tampons, gasoline, and...

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The Psychology of Agorism

Agorism is the ultimate anarchistic act; it is partly black market economics—but it can encapsulate a variety of markets. The purpose of agorism is to create anarchism or a free society through trade...

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The Longest Running Case of Mass Hysteria

Written by J. A. McDonald. It is a mass delusion on an epic scale, beyond that of any known mental illness or fallacious belief. It is neither genetic nor viral nor bacterial, yet it has spread to...

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City on Lockdown

Written by Winter Trabex. The city of Manchester, New Hampshire is divided in half by the Merrimack River. There are two sides: the west side, and the east side. On May 13th, at around 2:30 in the...

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Good Ideas Don’t Require Force

Written by Dean Tea. When I shop at Shoppers Drug Mart the cashier always asks if I have an Optimum Card and whether I would be interested in signing up for one. If I did sign up, I would become part...

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I Want You to Be an Anarchist

Let explain why I want you to be an anarchist. Anarchism is probably not what you think it is; it is not mass murder, bombs and bazookas, arenas and gladiators, bloodshed, or Mad Max and the...

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20 Reasons Not to Vote

Written and Compiled by Robert Rorschach. 1. If one votes, one participates. If one participates, one condones and endorses the process, and subsequently, what those elected ‘representatives’ do and...

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The Magic Shirt

Written by Bruce Fenton. Behold The Magic Shirt I have created a special t-shirt with pretty colors and patterns. I shall make this shirt a symbol and tell everyone about its greatness. Only certain...

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