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Ad hominem attacks aside, YouTuber hawanja’s video on free-market anarchists seems to make the point that people “naturally organize themselves into hierarchies” that require violence to be maintained, so anarchism runs counter to the human condition. It is left unstated why violence is needed or ethically justified to maintain these hierarchies if they were [...]
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 [...]
Concerning the protests against then-Egyptian ruler Hosni Mubarak, Barack Obama released a supportive statement on Jan. 28 addressing the popular revolt that eventually led to Mubarak’s ousting.
Obama expressed that the “people of Egypt have rights that are universal.” Later, he added, “Violence will not address the grievances of the Egyptian people. And suppressing ideas [...]
What Julia Riber Pitt, blogging at Free Disesent, is “more than a little sick and tired of are people whose beliefs are nothing but pro-capitalist labeling themselves as ‘anarchists’ only because they oppose the government/State.”
I cannot tell exactly what is meant by the word “capitalism,” since there are so many different definitions for [...]
The Center for a Stateless Society is hosting a virtual symposium concerning issues of land ownership.
I thought I would offer responses to questions posed in Gary Chartier’s opening remarks.
After how much time does land become ripe for homesteading?
I take this question to be asking by what principle can a property become [...]
Broadly, my objections to socialism (be it statist or anti-statist) are not with the ends sought (a more egalitarian world, social solidarity and a free society), just the means by which those ends are sought. I take the view that free markets can more justly and more effectively socialize the benefits of capital and labor [...]
To give some background in the wake of alleged anarchist bombings in Rome, Time Magazine has a brief retelling of European anarchist history. It is pretty interesting. I would quibble with a few of the facts in the first half of the article, but the second half just dumbfounded me.
What was strange is [...]
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Reconsidering the Ethics of Statehood
On ethical grounds, my rejection of the state was based on the idea that the state’s claim to a monopoly on the enforcement of rules of conduct within a given territory was arbitrary if no individual has ultimate decision-making authority over property to be delegated to the state in the first place. However, I am [...]