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Gustave De Molinari and The Production of Security
Gustave De Molinari was a radical classical liberal associated with Frederic Bastiat and the French liberal school of economics. In his work "The Production of Security", Molinari was the first economist to propose the possibility of free competition...
Posted Fri, Jan 30 2009 by Brainpolice | 1 comment(s)
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Competition and Cooperation
In the economic sense of the term, competition refers to the incentive to better appease a multiplicity of demands, and cooperation refers to the most efficient and ethical means of meeting such demands. An individual's demands are better met through...
Posted Wed, Nov 19 2008 by Brainpolice | 1 comment(s)
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Free Association Resolves Cultural Conflict
The very existance of state-provided and/or monopolized services is a boon to cultural conflict over how those services are used and who gets to use them, since the individual must pay for them no matter what and has no real alternative to the singular...
Posted Sat, May 17 2008 by Brainpolice | with no comments
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Resolving Anarchist Conflict
Conflict between the socialist oriented and market oriented camps within anarchism can get very tedious. Many anarcho-communists and anarcho-syndicalists appear to emphatically claim that market anarchism isn't truly anarchism, that opposition to...
Posted Mon, May 5 2008 by Brainpolice | 8 comment(s)
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Organization and Conflict: Free Association vs. Politics
Free association and competition resolves conflict while politics, especially democratic politics, enables and ultimately depends on conflict. All disagreements between people about how to organize can theoretically be resolved through free association...
Posted Wed, Apr 30 2008 by Brainpolice | 2 comment(s)
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An Apolitical Approach To Libertarianism
In the discussion and debate that goes on among libertarians, it is disputed as to wether or not libertarians should vote and participate in party politics. Some see voting as the only practical option, some think that there should be a multi-pronged...
Posted Sat, Apr 5 2008 by Brainpolice | 12 comment(s)
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The Case For Free Immigration, The Case Against Borders
Immigration is a hot topic these days, particularly for those in the southern and south-western states of America. There has been a rising anti-immigration sentiment, directed specifically at immigrating Mexicans. The public cries out, "Secure the...
Posted Sun, Mar 30 2008 by Brainpolice | 9 comment(s)
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"Vulgar" Libertarianism and Voluntary Socialism
From what I've been able to gather, "vulgar" libertarianism is a label applied to the tendency of some libertarians, particularly with right-wing sympathies, to defend currently existing property arrangements and corporations as if they...
Posted Sat, Dec 29 2007 by Brainpolice | 6 comment(s)
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How The State Thrives, How The State Falls
Foreward note: inspired in part by "The Politics of Obedience: The Discourse on Voluntary Servitude" by Eteinne De La Boetie . How the State Thrives How does the state maintain itself? It is true that to some extent all states initially derive...
Posted Sat, Dec 15 2007 by Brainpolice | with no comments
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Checks and Balances: Two Kinds
Checks and balances should be a fairly familiar concept to Americans. The standard definition of checks and balances is that the state must be broken up into multiple segments that function as checks against eachother's power and perform different...
Posted Wed, Nov 28 2007 by Brainpolice | 5 comment(s)
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Minarchism: Ethically Self-contradictary
The basic idea of minarchism is that the government should be expressly small and limited to the defense of person and property of those within the territorial dominion of the government. This generally implies that the government's services be limited...
Posted Tue, Nov 27 2007 by Brainpolice | 7 comment(s)
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