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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 [...]
The Republican-controlled Texas state senate last week passed SB 16, which if made law would require women thinking of aborting their pregnancy to first perform a sonogram. Texas law already requires, unjustly I believe, a 24-hour waiting period before an abortion could be performed by a licensed physician. This new legislation would dictate what [...]
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 [...]
I call them conundrums because there may be some way around my objections to an occupancy-and-use theory for property rights, but I do not possibly see what those could be.
My understanding of occupancy and use is that someone has the right to control a property — something that is ownable — for the period [...]
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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 [...]