“If there is to be a separation, then God bless them both. And keep them in the Union if it be for their good, but separate them if it be better.”…Thomas Jefferson on the New England Hartford Convention of 1814. This is Charlie Lee with Springtime of Nations talkin Dixie today. I would like to …
Month: April 2021
Karen Army Captures Burmese Army Base
from AP: While defenseless city dwellers are massacred by the Burmese military dictatorship, the rekindled fight for Karen Independence has born fruit: An important army base was captured near the border with Thailand. The Two freedom fighting factions have began to form a provisional government based on increased minority representation in the Multi-ethnic country, where …
Springtime of Nations: Tigray
When Classical Liberalism first gained prominence as a political movement in Europe and the Western Hemisphere in general, the ideology was closely tied to national struggles for independence against large empires. Aside from the liberal nature of the American Revolution, the wars of independence fought by the nations of Latin America against the Spanish Empire, …
Springtime of Nations: The Burmese Separatists
“Independence is not the kind of thing you can get by begging for it from other people. You should proclaim it yourselves. The Japanese refuse to give it? Very well then, tell them that you will cross over to someplace like Twante and proclaim it and set up your government. What’s the difficulty about that? …
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Uyghur Sentenced to Death for Textbooks
from the South China Morning Post: For the crime of mentioning the existence of the 1940s East Turkestan Republic in a previously state sanctioned public school textbook, Sattar Sawut the former head of the Xinjiang education department has been given a suspended sentence of death for publishing “separatism” that led to the incitement of terrorism …
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Libertarian Leninism: Learning From Our Enemies
Something that Libertarians often fail to do is to learn from our enemies. It is unquestionable that many different ideologies have had much greater success in the 20th century than libertarianism or classical liberalism. No matter how repressive these ideologies may be, it’s worth studying their strategies for getting into power. Libertarians love to talk …
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Important Non-Austrian Contributions to Economic Thought
The world of academia has long been plagued by an unfortunate tendency of overspecialization. For example, economists tend to stick strictly to their discipline and know next to nothing about history. Conversely, it’s mostly true of historians that they know next to nothing about sound economics. To make matters worse, specialization and ever more narrower …
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Yes, Ancaps Are Anarchists
This is the transcript of a video that appeared on the Springtime Of Nations youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJb2-bsWP6Y If you’ve ever seen socialists talk about anarcho-capitalism you’ve probably noticed that they are very insistent that it is not a form of anarchism. Often they’ll even refuse to write the word without quotation marks on the “an”. …