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Free Market Regulation Explained by Alex Merced Everyone always assumes that as free marketers that we advocate there be no regulations at all, but the truth is we think there should be no government monopolies of regulation or violence used in enforcing it. Then the response always is, if the government...
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Sun, Apr 25 2010
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Filed under: Private Sector, FINRA, Entertainment, Federal Reserve, Consequence, Regulation, SIPC, Individualism, Magazines, Rating Agencies, Free Market, SEC, Reviews, FDIC, Collectivism
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Mikhail Bakunin was the Russian father of the strain of anarchism known as collectivist anarchism. He was initially loosely associated with both Karl Marx and Pierre Joseph Proudhon, and eventually he developed anarcho-collectivism using both of them as influences while deviating from them both at the...
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Sat, Jan 31 2009
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Filed under: Anarchism, Collectivism, Propaganda, Religion, Socialism, Philosophy, Free Association, History, Marxism, Communism, Proudhon, Bakunin, Mikhail Bakunin
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There is a reoccuring problem that occurs within internal libertarian and anarchist discourse that I like to call the anarcho-semantics problem. The anarcho-semantics problem most often occurs in discussions and debates between socialist oriented anarchists and free market libertarians, in which there...
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The concept of individual liberty, consistantly applied, would seem to have pluralistic implications. For it leaves room for anyone to act as they please within the context of voluntary interpersonal relations, and by its very nature a society consists of a plurality of different types of people with...
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Conservatism is a defense of the existing order or past existing orders as "natural". Any potential alternative to the existing order or to the romantisized past order is immediately brushed aside as "unnatural" and "utopian" or "idealistic". In the conservative...
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Wed, Jun 25 2008
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Filed under: Determinism, Collectivism, Social Evolution, Equality, Philosophy, Human Nature, conservatism, History, Vulgar Libertarianism, Marxism
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Theism is not the only kind of mysticism. Collectivist and political ideologies are also forms of mysticism. The nature of politics involves blind faith in a "highest essence". The abstractions of these "highest essences" function as arbitrary authorities to appeal to. The most common...
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So the other day an Objectivist wrote this gem at their blog: "On this Memorial Day, I would like to honor the three men of the American Civil War who understood the terrible need for total war : President Abraham Lincoln, General Ulysses S. Grant, and General William T. Sherman. Their vigorous...
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It is common for many libertarians, especially those in America, to assume that they have a natural alliance with "the right". This is based on certain assumptions, such as the notion that contemporary libertarianism grew out of the old American conservative movement and that "the right"...
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Fri, Apr 25 2008
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Filed under: Racism, Collectivism, Religion, Capitalism, Socialism, Libertarianism, Economics, Philosophy, conservatism, Corporatism, liberalism, Nationalism, History
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So I put together some relatively witty definitions of my terms. If you're not offended by at least one of these, then you are awesome! Constitutionalism - The belief that a piece of paper drafted and signed by a tiny aristocracy of men is a legitimate perpetual contract that makes the government...
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Fri, Apr 18 2008
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Filed under: Anarchism, Objectivism, Minarchism, Non-Aggression Axoim, Racism, Collectivism, Democracy, Altruism, War, Constitution, Social Contract, Religion, Libertarianism, Economics, Philosophy, Thomas Hobbes, conservatism, Environmentalism
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An atheist criticism of contemporary secularism Most atheists and agnostics still have a religious mindset, only they have replaced the formal concept of a god with other concepts. In the absence of faith in an all-knowing and all-loving god outside of the universe, they have substituted faith in other...
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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 borders!" and "They're taking our...
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Sun, Mar 30 2008
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Filed under: Non-Aggression Axoim, Ethics, Competition, Consistancy, Racism, Collectivism, Discrimination, Separatism, Interventionism, Libertarianism, Economics, isolationism, Free Association, Immigration, Nationalism, Labor, Free Trade, Prohibition
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This is part one in a three part series: democracy is slavery, democracy is impossible and democracy is liberty. Democracy Is Slavery By the phrase "democracy is slavery", I refer to the tyranny that inevitably arises from the principles of majoritarianism and communalism. One standard definition...
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Sun, Mar 16 2008
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Filed under: Ethics, Universality, Consistancy, Utilitarianism, Collectivism, Majoritarianism, Democracy, Individual Sovereignty, Consent, Slavery
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There has been a lot of hooting and hollering lately in libertarian circles, particularly as it relates to the Ron Paul campaign. This seems to be representative of a broader conflict between "culturally left" and "culturally conservative" libertarians. It is becoming commonplace...
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Tue, Jan 29 2008
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Filed under: Anarchism, Decentralization, Centralization, Racism, Collectivism, Separatism, Constitution, Religion, Libertarianism, conservatism, isolationism
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I believe in objective secular morality, founded on reason and universalism. I think a common mistake is the idea that if we ditch religion, we must fall back on moral relativity. Then the religious people feed on this and get to accuse secular people of being nihilists or hedonists. But I think that...
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I'd like to state upfront that I am not an egalitarian, which is to say that I am fully aware of the fact that people are inherently unequal with respect to their mental and physical capabilities as individuals, and I despise the politically correct way in which racial questions are often treated...