by margaret | Feb 11, 2025 | Uncategorized
preface to The Menace of Privilege Henry George Junior 1905 WHAT is the cause of the grave changes that are coming over the American Republic — the extraordinary inequality in the distribution of wealth manifested on every hand; the rise of class feeling; the growth...
by margaret | Sep 26, 2024 | rothbard
Murray Rothbard, 1992 Well, they finally got David Duke. But he sure scared the bejesus out of them. It took a massive campaign of hysteria, of fear and hate, orchestrated by all wings of the Ruling Elite, from Official Right to Left, from President Bush and the...
by Alan Forester-Kaiser | Sep 5, 2024 | frankfurt school, horkheimer
Traditional and Critical Theory Max Horkheimer Outline by Philip Turetzky, turetzky@colostate.edu Traditional Theory & Natural Science: 1) Theory is the sum of propositions linked in a system (basic and derived), where derived propositions are consonant with the...
by margaret | Apr 3, 2023 | bookchin, confederalism, muncipalism, ocalan, spanish civil war, spanish revolution
Since 2014 solidarity activists, independent leftists, and others have been crossing the Tigris to study the developments in Rojava, the independent multi-ethnic enclave in northern Syria. Here the Kurdish people, whose aspirations have been stomped on for generations...
by margaret | Feb 22, 2023 | constitution, jefferson
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the...
by Alan Forester-Kaiser | Feb 11, 2023 | bookchin, caucus, decentralization, ecology, hayek, housing, human action, infrastructure, planning, pollution, public choice, social liberty
The Libertarian Party (US): a political party in the United States that promotes civil liberties, non-interventionism, laissez-faire capitalism, and limiting the size and scope of government. The party was conceived in August 1971 at meetings in the home of David F....
by Alan Forester-Kaiser | Jan 12, 2023 | foldvary, georgism, pollution, stewardship
The social cost of the tax that pays for the subsidy is greater than the gain to the buyers, because the extra buyers are able to to buy it at less than the market price. A subsidy lets people buy stuff below the price that would be set in a market. In a free market,...
by Alan Forester-Kaiser | Jan 9, 2023 | foldvary, public choice
[ Fred E. Foldvary, Dept. of Economics, Santa Clara University, and School of Management John F. Kennedy University, California. Bradley Fellow, Center for Study of Public Choice, 1989-91. ] In the Calculus of Consent: Logical Foundations of Constitutional...
by Alan Forester-Kaiser | Jan 4, 2023 | mises, planning
1. Planning as a Synonym for Socialism The term ‘planning’ is mostly used as a synonym for socialism, communism, and authoritarian and totalitarian economic management. Sometimes only the German pattern of socialism — Zwangswirtschaft — is...
by Alan Forester-Kaiser | Jan 4, 2023 | hayek, monopoly, planning
Road to Serfdom, Friedrich Hayek, 1944 cartoon summary Contents Chapter I. The Abandoned Road Human will has made the world what it is — The individualistic basis of modem civilization — Liberalism not a stationary creed — But it has not been allowed to develop...
