How should we live? For God? For reason? For others? For the earth? For "humanity"? If we answer any of these, then the next question is, why? Why should we live for God? Why according to reason? Why for others, the earth, or humanity? The only reasonable answer to this question is that to...
There is a general traditional strategic split among anarchists between insurrectionary anarchism and pacifist anarchism. Insurrection is generally associated with either individual or public violent revolution, although if one wants to be specific it is etymologically linked closely with the concept...
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Filed under: Anarchism, Ethics, Means and Ends, Self-interest, Philosophy, Frederich Neitzsche, Egoism, Insurrection, Pacifism, Strategy
Another problem that I see with the attempt to prove "self-ownership" and "property rights" as an a priori axoim that is inherently established by the act of argumentation (as Hans Hoppe's argumentation ethics seems to essentially be) is that a contradiction between one's...
I'd like to extend on my criticism of Hoppe's argumentation ethics by concretizing the point about the difference between "self-ownership" as it is used ontologically and "self-ownership" as it is used ethically. I realize that this point has been made in one way or another...
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Filed under: Individual Sovereignty, Natural Rights, Slavery, Libertarianism, Philosophy
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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Filed under: Anarchism, Collectivism, Propaganda, Religion, Socialism, Philosophy, Free Association, History, Marxism, Communism, Proudhon, Bakunin, Mikhail Bakunin