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There was recently a discussion on the Reddit’s Anarchism forum about the nature and origin of property rights. Many people, ironically both Objectivists and the vast majority of anarchists, believe that property rights would not exist in practice in the absence of a state to enforce those rights.
My take is that certain property [...]
The slogan of the national Libertarian Party is “Minimum Government, Maximum Freedom.” Yet, on the Introduction page, I read that “Government’s only role is to help individuals defend themselves from force and fraud.”
I can appreciate why many people could recognize those two ideas as synonymous, but they are not. The size of [...]
In Labadie Warren’s “The Tyranny of Property,” I learned that all non-personal property “should be considered unowned.” Immediately, Warren takes a logical leap by making a moral claim that people “should” act a certain way (i.e., not enforce non-personal property rights). Without justifying logically, Warren transitioned from stating what is the case to asserting [...]
I recently saw a video clip of Michael Moore calling other people’s money “a national resource.” I have to agree that in some cases other people’s money is not truly their own. For example, the wealth of Moore and others who benefit from government privileges, in Moore’s case intellectual property laws, would belong [...]
Rabbi Adam Jacobs wrote “An Open Letter to the Atheist Community,” the title of which is sort of based a misunderstanding. The only thing atheists share is an absence in a belief in something. That is not grounds to be called a community. Atheism tells nothing of what a person actually believes to be [...]
The city of Dallas, in concert with the federal government, has a relatively new program to grant immigration visas to foreign nationals in exchange for investing in Dallas business projects. The program has targeted investors from Mexico but has expanded to other countries as well. On one hand, I appreciate that the federal government [...]
William Pierce, who according to Wikipedia, was a white nationalist and founder of Cosmotheism, “a religion based on white racialism, pantheism, eugenics, and National Socialism.” Until his death in 2002, he was probably most well-known as the author of “The Turner Diaries,” which depicts a violent revolution leading to the overthrow of the [...]
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The Government-vs.-Business Canard
The prevailing left-liberal position, as articulated by figures like Naomi Klein, is that big government is needed to hold big business in check, if not break it entirely. The argument primarily against reducing government power, as I understand it, is that autocratic big business would replace whatever reduction in government power were achieved. A [...]