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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Francios Tremblay’s Feb. 6 line that “Our society is built on the principle of generalized competition” is sort of the inspiration for the comments below, but I do not mean for this to be a rebuttal of Tremblay’s entire post, if only because he nevertheless makes many valid points about the present nature of [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Probably the most common objection to a stateless society is that invading armies will occupy the country and establish a new state. The idea is that a minimal state could ward off that threat in the same way that a flu shot, which contains a vastly weakened form of the flu virus, theoretically prevents an [...]
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Central Planning Undermines Democracy
Part of the appeal of a democratic electoral process are the ideas that it helps to maintain accountability and legitimacy of the presiding governing structure. With that in mind, some advocates of a state hold that the primary function of government is to maintain a democratic process, as opposed to defending individual rights as minarchist [...]