A simple question
Monday, 21 September 2009 by Mike Gogulskiphilosophy, war | 29 Comments »
You see Donald Rumsfeld on the street. A man with a gun jumps Rumsfeld, apparently bent on killing him. Who will you defend? We're probably all talking past each other, but this is a followup to "Why I am not specifically a ...
Why I am not specifically a voluntaryist
Thursday, 17 September 2009 by Mike Gogulskiphilosophy, war | 97 Comments »
Maybe it's nothing more than a definitional quibble, but... Carl Watner, who has operated voluntyarist.com for long years, provides a definition of what a voluntaryist is, front and center: Voluntaryists are advocates of non-political, non-violent strategies to achieve a free society. Carl has ...
Are you really a libertarian/anarchist? Take two
Saturday, 29 August 2009 by Mike Gogulskiphilosophy | 14 Comments »
Just under a week ago I announced here that I've dropped my preferences and declared myself an anarchist without adjectives. I then proposed a series of questions which one might entertain to determine whether one really ought or ought not ...
Are you really a libertarian/anarchist?
Sunday, 23 August 2009 by Mike Gogulskiphilosophy | 140 Comments »
I introduced myself here primarily as an anarcho-capitalist. That's changed. I've dropped my preferences, and now consider myself an anarchist without adjectives. The ancap flag (yes, the nice one with the big red heart) comes down, and my "about" page ...
What of the zombie apocalypse — Dr. Anarchy responds
Wednesday, 19 August 2009 by Mike Gogulskiphilosophy, war | 5 Comments »
From the Dr. Anarchy mail bag this week, a reader in Saudi Arabia asks: What's the official anarchist position on the Zombie Apocalypse? I suspect that all of my loyal readers will agree that this is an important question, and one worthy ...
An Agorist Primer by Samuel Edward Konkin III (SEK3) – free PDF ebook!
Sunday, 26 July 2009 by Mike Gogulskiactivism, philosophy | 6 Comments »
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Liberty Camp question: What is capitalism?
Friday, 26 June 2009 by Mike Gogulskiphilosophy | 8 Comments »
In my first day of Liberty Camp sessions as instructor/facilitator/whatever today in Martin, Slovakia, I introduced each session by asking group members to answer the question "What does capitalism mean to you?" in less than sixty seconds each. With a single ...
Classical liberal fail: privilege, not exclusivity, is the problem
Sunday, 21 June 2009 by Mike Gogulskiphilosophy | 8 Comments »
Toban Wiebe at Libertarian Anarchy has a pretty solid review of the main thesis of Hans Hermann-Hoppe's Democracy: The God That Failed at "Monarchy vs. Democracy and The Decline of Civilization". My favorite quote: [caption id="attachment_2444" align="alignright" width="184" caption="Democracy: The God ...
Repost: Confiscation and the Homestead Principle podcast
Wednesday, 17 June 2009 by Mike Gogulskiphilosophy, podcasts | No Comments »
Podcast-compatible repost of my recording of Murray Rothbard’s classic essay from The Libertarian Forum in 1969, available as a scan of the newsletter at mises.org and worked up into a handout from invisiblemolotov.com. [podcast]http://www.nostate.com/audio/Confiscation_and_the_Homestead_Principle/Confiscation_and_the_Homestead_Principle.mp3[/podcast]
Repost: The Iron Fist Behind the Invisible Hand podcast
Wednesday, 17 June 2009 by Mike Gogulskiphilosophy, podcasts | 1 Comment »
I present my audiobook version (reposted here for podcast compatibility) of Kevin Carson’s The Iron Fist Behind the Invisible Hand: Corporate Capitalism as a State-Guaranteed System of Privilege, based on the HTML version at flag.blackened.net. [podcast]http://www.nostate.com/audio/The_Iron_Fist_Behind_the_Invisible_Hand/The_Iron_Fist_Behind_the_Invisible_Hand.mp3[/podcast]
