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lol, I saw that a few days ago and flagged it as hate speech.
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[quote user="meambobbo"]Nobody has really responded to my saying that labor used to create IP is scarce[/quote] It's irrelevant to the question of ownership. Only matter and space are in the unfortunate condition of being unusable except exclusively, and it is solely for this reason that the concept of "property" has any utility
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[quote user="Nitroadict"]If they focused on agora, the idea would be considerably more solid.[/quote] Some are. They've got quite a bit of civil disobedience, tax resistance, etc. Keene seems to be the focal point for most of that type of activity, while Manchester and Concord appear to be mainly for those wishing to use the political
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[quote user="Ego"]This last part is to any other "revolutionary" who is opposed to any anarcho-capitalist who want to take steps to shrink the government: isn't it silly to oppose weakening the organization that you're fighting?[/quote] Weakening? You think the British Empire was weak? You think the American Empire is weak
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[quote user="maxpot46"]How many women are in this forum besides you? How many women attend Mises University (I did in 2005 and there were only a handful of women there)? How many prominent female economists are there? How many women are strong and independent while 8 months pregnant? If one looks at a timeline of the growth of quasi-socialism
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[quote user="gplauche"]Also, check out the article on justice entrepreneurship by George Smith, reponses to it, and his reply in volume 3 of the JLS[/quote] A good starting point, imo. That was the last thing I read as a minarchist before getting past my initial knee-jerk "but it can't work" reaction to anarchy. To the OP: Though
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[quote user="Kakugo"]Please help me understand this. I have been actively involved in politics for the past fifteen years and yet I still struggle to understand how can Socialism and all its by-products have such a widespread appeal.[/quote] While perhaps not the only source of the problem, a major part of it is the false dichotomy between
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[quote user="kingmonkey"]I'm not paying for unowned land. I'm paying for land that once belonged to someone else. So let us assume this: That the land in question is free from any theft all the way back to the beginning of time itself. The person who previously owned it is the original settler of the land. He found it, he farmed it
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[quote user="Grant"]I didn't mean to criticize the ideas of agorism, only the certainty that some people seem to express about it. Elements of it might work, sure, but they might not.[/quote] There are no guarantees, for any approach. [quote user="Grant"]I don't think anyone here is qualified to say one way or the other[
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[quote user="maxpot46"]The fact that many people are ignorant sheep is why our fantasy candidate must have the charisma of Barack Obama. Any strategy dependent upon people become informed independent thinkers is doomed to fail. Charisma is what separates the men from the boys, in politics, but charisma is a tool that can be used for good or