Archive for April, 2012
Aristotle on Friendship
Friendship, says Aristotle, comes in different forms and serves different purposes. A. Some friendships are grounded solely in considerations of sensual pleasure. Such pleasure is ephemeral, however, and the friendship lasts only as long as the pleasure is reciprocated and forthcoming. B. Some friendships are based on utility. Two people befriend each other because they [...]
Let’s give the Fed some competition by John Stossel
by John Stossel Pssst. Want to buy some Stossels? They’re my own currency with my face on them. Why should you trust them? Because I promise to redeem them for gold. And I’m reliable. I have money in the bank and a job that brings in more than I spend. By contrast, the politicians who [...]
The Immorality of the Social Contract
by Alexandros A on Wed, 2012/04/18, Journal of Antistatist Studies Today there has been a lot of talk about a “Social Contract”. A contract that binds all people and is supposedly something all people must adhere to or else suffer punishment by the state. The Social Contract was a theory first espoused by political philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau [...]
Antistate of the Union – Government is not society, it is the cancer killing it.
by M. D. Roe on Thu, 2012/04/19, Journal of Antistatist Studies I address the nation, alien to it. With much apprehension I do this for I question the very foundation of its singularity. I am not impressed by its guns, its agents of enforcement, its character, its “concern” for the “well-being” of its citizens, contortion of economic [...]
Richmond Cops Mistakenly Hand Over Anti-Protest Guides to Anarchist
by WILL POTTER on JANUARY 5, 2011 in TERRORISM COURT CASES After filing a Freedom of Information Act request with the Richmond Police Department for police training documents, Mo Karn received much more than expected in return: homeland security and crowd control guides that show how the police target protests. The police filed for an [...]
Capitalist Vistas: Walt Whitman and Spontaneous Order
Democratic Vistas is widely and rightly regarded as the greatest of Walt Whitman’s prose works, and in it we find extensive evidence of his sympathy with ideas broadly in accord with Hayek’s vision of social evolution and the kind of order that evolution produces. Later we will focus on the way the very form of Whitman’s [...]
The NFL Draft and the Division of Labor
Tonight, the second-most-popular televised football broadcast of the year takes place from New York’s Radio City Music Hall. ESPN will broadcast round one of the NFL Draft, with the remaining rounds to be broadcast on Friday and Saturday. An estimated 40 million people will watch the draft, an event that even for the most interested [...]
Arguing with Statists: How Statism Obfuscates Good Intent with Political Objectives
Obfuscation of intent in political objectives is a hallmark of statism and one of the primary methods by which statist politicians will push forward their own careers or the statist agenda, cogently or not. This occurs on both the left and the right of the statist political spectrum. These misunderstandings in intent also happen to [...]
Murray Rothbard’s critique of Samuel Edward Konkin’s New Libertarian Manifesto
From Strategy of the New Libertarian Alliance,Number One, May Day 1981, 3-11, a critique of the New Libertarian Manifesto [NLM] by the late agorist theoretician, Samuel Edward Konkin III (1947-2004); reprinted as “The Anti-Party Mentality” in Libertarian Vanguard, Aug.-Sep. 1981. Rothbard dated his submission November 10, 1980. The political context within which he wrote may be dated, but not the [...]
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