A more complex simple question
Sunday, 11 April 2010 by Mike Gogulskiphilosophy, police, war | 1 Comment »
About seven months ago, I posed a question: You see Donald Rumsfeld on the street. A man with a gun jumps Rumsfeld, apparently bent on killing him. Who will you defend? The responses I found in the comments were... interesting. Let's take it up ...
The agorist/statist spectrum in business, per SEK3
Thursday, 31 December 2009 by Mike Gogulskiphilosophy | 6 Comments »
Let's draw a line and make a spectrum. On the Far Left is pure agorist; on the Far Right is pure statism (I'll leave it to the theologians to discuss as to whether statism is so Evil that it cannot ...
Agora! Apostasy! Action!
Sunday, 27 December 2009 by Mike Gogulskiactivism, philosophy | 2 Comments »
[caption id="attachment_3526" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Agora! Apostasy! Action!"][/caption] Kyle Bennett has posted An Agorist Manifesto in 95 Theses over at the Free Agents Network social site Worth a look, in my view. And, as Kyle says: "Suitable for nailing to an appropriate door ...
We are at war
Wednesday, 9 December 2009 by Mike Gogulskiphilosophy, war | 24 Comments »
"The State, completely in its genesis, essentially and almost completely during the first stages of its existence, is a social institution, forced by a victorious group of men on a defeated group, with the sole purpose of regulating the dominion ...
The best place for socialism
Saturday, 21 November 2009 by Mike Gogulskiphilosophy | 2 Comments »
[caption id="attachment_3447" align="alignright" width="154" caption="The Star Fraction by Ken MacLeod"][/caption] See, what we always meant by socialism wasn't something you forced on people, it was people organizing themselves as they pleased into co-ops, collectives, communes, unions. Now look at this place. ...
Black markets vs. free markets
Friday, 20 November 2009 by Mike Gogulskieconomics, philosophy | 7 Comments »
On a private mailing list, someone asked: Aren't Black Markets and Free Markets mutually Exclusive? Free markets don't exist in any real sense anywhere today. State prohibitions, subsidies, taxes, regulation, privilege and the rest make them impossible on any substantial scale. "Black market" ...
New Libertarian Manifesto — po polsku!
Friday, 2 October 2009 by Mike Gogulskiphilosophy | 4 Comments »
There is definitely a growing interest in agorism in central Europe! A new Polish translation of Samuel Edward Konkin III's New Libertarian Manifesto has been published online at Luke7777777's blog. In the interest of diffusion and replication, I am reproducing the ...
Free markets, and fuck you
Wednesday, 30 September 2009 by Mike Gogulskimind control, philosophy | 64 Comments »
I'm republishing, here, an essay -- or, perhaps, diatribe -- by Jessica Pacholski. I don't have to agree with every word, or even understand the full context of where she is coming from. What I do understand, however, is the frustration at ...
Anarchism without Hyphens by Karl Hess – podcast
Wednesday, 23 September 2009 by Mike Gogulskiphilosophy, podcasts | 3 Comments »
Listen: [podcast]http://www.nostate.com/audio/Anarchism-without-Hyphens.mp3[/podcast] Download: Anarchism without Hyphens, 15m25s, 14.1MB MP3 Intro: Good morning, new leftist. My name is Mike Gogulski. I am a stateless ex-American. I renounced my citizenship in 2008 and now live within the legal interstices of Europe. You can find me online ...
One from the heart
Tuesday, 22 September 2009 by Mike Gogulskipeople, philosophy | 2 Comments »
[caption id="attachment_3190" align="alignright" width="104" caption="Angel Tech by Antero Alli"][/caption] Communication only occurs between equals. Any relationship based in the hierarchy of mutually oppressing forces, i.e. Master-slave, Dictator-masses, King-serf, etc. only jams the communication potential born from mutual affinity, commitment to openness, ...
