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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on Wed, Jun 3 2009
Filed under: Anarchism, Ethics, Means and Ends, Self-interest, Philosophy, Frederich Neitzsche, Egoism, Insurrection, Pacifism, Strategy
I have a great amount of respect for the near-forgotten figure Max Stirner. His ill-famed "The Ego and His Own" is probably the most radical, thought provoking and challenging writting that I have ever read. Not only did Stirner explicitly take an egoist position, question the very foundation...
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on Sun, Jan 25 2009
Filed under: Anarchism, Ethics, Self-interest, Religion, Philosophy, Marxism, Psychology, Frederich Neitzsche, Ayn Rand, Egoism, Max Stirner
I've been a part of numerous online social networks or general social groups online that contains some amoralist anarchists, who either are former libertarian anarchists who have come to reject libertarianism or they are anarchists who rejected libertarianism from the get-go and reached the conclusion...
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on Thu, Jan 22 2009
Filed under: Anarchism, Non-Aggression Axoim, Ethics, Natural Rights, Libertarianism, Philosophy, Stefan Molyneux
I contend that the non-aggression principle is not a contextless axoim and it requires a specific definition of the difference between genuine self-defense and the initiation of violence. There is a grave problem that thin libertarianism and plumb-line libertarianism runs into, which is that the non...
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on Sun, Jan 18 2009
Filed under: Objectivism, Non-Aggression Axoim, Ethics, Libertarianism, Philosophy, Vulgar Libertarianism