The “Libertarian to Alt Right pipeline” as a concept has been around almost since the term “Alternative Right” came into popular consciousness in 2015. The alleged pipeline has mostly been used as a cudgel by left-leaning statists and some foolish left-libertarians to attack right libertarianism, anarcho-capitalism especially, as being simply a gateway drug to nazism. …
The National Divorce Debacle
One of the relatively new hot topics in the ever-intensifying American culture war is the idea of a “national divorce”, which is a term used to describe a potential breakup of the United States into two or more sovereign states. “Relatively new” because the recent national conversation about a potential political breakup is mostly a …
KILL LEVIATHAN: Pan-Secession in brief
On this channel, discussion of the core belief of pan-secession has either been done in piecemeal, or included in hour-long videos. Today we seek to put forward a succinct but comprehensive explanation for this belief. The state has a problem: human beings are not interchangeable. There is not one homogenous mass of people that can …
Read the full post →“KILL LEVIATHAN: Pan-Secession in brief”
Andy Craig and Cato Institute Utopianism
Over at Libertarianism.org, Andy Craig has written an article where he bemoans attempts by some to ally with others to take control of government. The title is “Pick Your People: The Populist Poison” and Craig says that such attempts can and have led to disastrous outcomes, like in Hungary and Poland, where he says “the …
Read the full post →“Andy Craig and Cato Institute Utopianism”
Collective Force and the Mutual Bank: Proudhon’s Legacy
One concept that Proudhon makes much of in various works, but that other mutualists did not consider especially important, is the concept of collective force. The concept, according to Proudhon, is the corollary of the division of labor. Or rather, he thinks the division of labor is the corollary of collective force. Because two persons …
Read the full post →“Collective Force and the Mutual Bank: Proudhon’s Legacy”
The History of Mutualism and Its Relationship to Anarchism
The first American anarchist, Josiah Warren, had two big ideas. The first he called “the sovereignty of the individual,” which would later be known as anarchism. And the second he called “cost – the limit of price,” which would later be known as mutualism. The Sovereignty of the Individual is the same idea as what …
Read the full post →“The History of Mutualism and Its Relationship to Anarchism”
Eric Fleishmann is wrong about Anarcho-Capitalism
Eric Fleischmann of the Center for a Stateless Society has recently published an article titled “The Age-Old Question: Is Anarcho-Capitalism Anarchism?” In this article, Fleischmann denies that Anarcho-Capitalists are the heirs of Benjamin Tucker and the other historical market anarchists, an inheritance that Fleischmann claims for his position, and even claims that anarcho-capitalists are not …
Read the full post →“Eric Fleishmann is wrong about Anarcho-Capitalism”
Libertarian Unity: What It Is and How to Implement It
The worldwide culture war between what we call the “left” and “right” has by now infected all political discourse, and Libertarianism is no exception. “Right-Libertarians” have socially conservative mores and favor more hierarchical forms of economic and social organization, while “Left-Libertarians” are socially progressive and believe that an egalitarian social order should and will be …
Read the full post →“Libertarian Unity: What It Is and How to Implement It”
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 …
Read the full post →“Libertarian Leninism: Learning From Our Enemies”