by margaret | Sep 15, 2021 | georgism
Chapter I The Inquiry Narrowed to the Laws of Distribution—Necessary Relation of These Laws The preceding examination has, I think, conclusively shown that the explanation currently given, in the name of political economy, of the problem we are attempting to solve, is...
by Alan Forester-Kaiser | Sep 9, 2021 | naturalism, neo-luddism
Chellis Glendinning Most students of European history dismiss the Luddites of 19th century England as “reckless machine-smashers” and “vandals” worthy of mention only for their daring tactics. Probing beyond this interpretation, though, we find a complex, thoughtful,...
by margaret | Sep 24, 2020 | anarchism, insurrection, robert taber
I. The wind of revolution. Popular will as the key to strategy. The confrontation of the haves and the have-nots. Fallacies of counter-insurgency. Guerrilla war as an extension of politics. Cracks in the armor of the modern state. ‘They just lured us through...
by Social Liberty | Apr 29, 2020 | Uncategorized
1 Separation of Education and State 2 Separation of Health and State 3 Separation of Land and State 4 Separation of Commerce and State...
by margaret | Mar 30, 2020 | art, transformation, transition
In every psychic experience, even in the production of a work of art, there exists a nucleus that is impossible to transform. It resists any and every action against itself. We are used to dealing with these irreducible and radical othernesses by adapting them to our...
by margaret | Mar 22, 2020 | anarchism, authority, proudhon
from General Idea of the Revolution I beg that the reader will pardon me, if in the course of this study an expression should escape me which might betray any feeling of self-esteem. I have the double regret, in this great question of authority, of being, on the one...
by margaret | Mar 9, 2020 | john muir
John Muir The moon is looking down into the canyon, and how marvelously the great rocks kindle to her light! Every dome, and brow, and swelling boss touched by her white rays, glows as if lighted with snow. I am now only a mile from last night’s camp; and have...
by Social Liberty | Mar 7, 2020 | david friedman, land, property
Machinery of Freedom, David Friedman A Saint once said: “Let the perfect city rise. Here needs no long debate on subtleties, Means, end, Let us intend That all be clothed and fed; while one remains Hungry our quarreling but mocks his pains. So all will labor to...
by Social Liberty | Mar 1, 2020 | anarchism, david friedman, liberty, transition
The central idea of libertarianism is that people should be permitted to run their own lives as they wish. We totally reject the idea that people must be forcibly protected from themselves. A libertarian society would have no laws against drugs, gambling, pornography...
by Alan Forester-Kaiser | Feb 22, 2020 | rothbard
All right: Even if we concede that full private property in resources and the free market will conserve and create resources, and do it far better than government regulation, what of the problem of pollution? Wouldn’t we be suffering aggravated pollution from...
