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The best reason for calling yourself an anarchist is because you are one. Yet, there are still good reasons to call yourself an anarchist even if you are not quite there yet, as Brian Micklethwait pointed out in a past edition of Libertarian Alliance.
An important point about anarchism is that no political movement [...]
~ Consent of the Governed in Question
Two opinion polls are particularly enlightening. According to a CBS-New York Times poll, 81 percent of those polled did not want members of congress reelected. Just 15 percent approve of the job congress is doing. Yet unlike the market, government job performance is not indicative [...]
Super activist John Bush, of Austin’s Texans for Accountable Government, posted a commentary on the prevailing notion that liberty could be achieved by seizing control of the Republican Party. I have less care for electoral politics than might Bush, but I think his critique is well founded and should be heeded by those [...]
Jonah Goldberg at National Review Online said that “very serious, committed, consistent libertarians are very rare in America (and really, really rare everywhere else). They don’t come close to constituting a major voting block. I respect folks who seriously believe in liberty-maximization in all spheres of life, but that is not a power-brokering constituency [...]
Some inspiration from former Libertarian Party presidential candidate Christine Smith‘s arcticle “The Road Waiting to Be Taken” …
Reading Friedrich A. Hayek’s Road to Serfdom, one is amazed that a book published 64 years ago could paint such an accurate picture of where the United States is headed today. Hayek’s warning of the [...]
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Self-contradiction in the Libertarian Party
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 [...]