by margaret | Jan 5, 2022 | rothbard
— edited from lew rockwell We have been all too familiar in recent years with the phenomenon of Big Government Conservatives, of people who have betrayed and seemingly forgotten their principles and their heritage in a quest for power and pelf, for...
by Alan Forester-Kaiser | Nov 23, 2021 | anarchism, goldman
Emma Goldman The history of human growth and development is at the same time the history of the terrible struggle of every new idea heralding the approach of a brighter dawn. In its tenacious hold on tradition, the Old has never hesitated to make use of the foulest...
by margaret | Nov 12, 2021 | anarchism, high-modernism
Cass R. Sunstein, More is Less, in The New Republic, at 37 (May 18, 1998) A German psychologist named Dietrich Dorner has done some fascinating experiments designed to see whether people can engage in successful social engineering. The experiments are run by a...
by Alan Forester-Kaiser | Oct 18, 2021 | anarchism, georgism
https://www.reddit.com/r/georgism/comments/qaf39r/how_would_geomutualism_work_in_practice_is_it/ I feel like this poster doesn’t understand what capitalism or socialism are. If by capitalism and socialism, it means neo-liberal capitalism and state...
by Alan Forester-Kaiser | Oct 1, 2021 | ecology
Marcel Wissenburg ABSTRACT Libertarians are not famed as friends of nature – but is that a matter of principle? I examine consequentialist, deontological and teleological versions of left- and right-libertarianism on three dimensions: their concepts of natural law,...
by Alan Forester-Kaiser | Sep 22, 2021 | anarchism, economics, georgism
Implement the universal ethic into the constitution, so that there be no restriction or imposed cost on acts which do not coercively harm others. Replace existing taxes with public revenue from user fees, pollution charges, and land value. Replace mass democracy with...
by Alan Forester-Kaiser | Sep 22, 2021 | georgism
Fred Folvary Introduction Conventional macroeconomics lacks a warranted explanation of the major business cycle, while the Austrian and geo-economic (Georgist) schools have incomplete theories. A geo-Austrian synthesis, in contrast, provides a potent theory consistent...
by Alan Forester-Kaiser | Sep 21, 2021 | georgism
Land value taxation is impeded by the same national sentiment that has reacted so strongly to the Supreme Court’s Kelo decision. That decision has sparked an intense national debate over the private property versus land use regulation and, ultimately, over the ability...
by Alan Forester-Kaiser | Sep 20, 2021 | georgism
from John Ikerd, July 2008 In 1879, Henry George, a journalist and philosopher, proposed to abolish all taxation save that upon land values in his classic book, Progress and Poverty. He suggested that people were not poor because of any lack of productivity of either...
by Alan Forester-Kaiser | Sep 17, 2021 | anarchism, authority, liberty, tucker
Probably no agitation has ever attained the magnitude, either in the number of its recruits or the area of its influence, which has been attained by Modern Socialism, and at the same time been so little understood and so misunderstood, not only by the hostile and the...
