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Reader feedback

Tuesday, 4 August 2009 by Mike Gogulski
people | 4 Comments »

Sometimes I get reader feedback of various sorts. This particular bit has been taking up two slots in my inbox for a while, and it's time to purge: From "Sioux Warrior" at 2:54am: why did you renounce US citizenship? are you fucking ...

A question for social democrats and democratic socialists

Sunday, 7 June 2009 by Mike Gogulski
economics, mind control, people | 7 Comments »

Since it seems you believe that the privileged state apparatus is necessary to human well-being and progress, and that you must therefore also support the paying of taxes and pay them yourselves, why not pay more? Why assume that the amount ...

Educating for anarchism #4 — a reply to FSK

Tuesday, 13 January 2009 by Mike Gogulski
philosophy | 18 Comments »

Fellow agorist blogger FSK late last year explored the question: "Is Participating in the State Economy Immoral?" The short answer, of course, is an emphatic "no", unless you're going to adopt the patently insane position that we're all criminals for doing ...

Confrontation with bureaucracy, part 3

Sunday, 7 December 2008 by Mike Gogulski
diary | 14 Comments »

On Friday I had a 9am appointment at the US Embassy with the Consul to move ahead with my renunciation of US citizenship. The Consul, an affable man about my age, did his duty. He made certain all the forms were ...

Data points on the financial crisis

Monday, 10 November 2008 by Mike Gogulski
diary, economics | 5 Comments »

The financial crisis -- or finančná kríza as we call it here in Slovakia -- has started to make itself manifest in my own business. Besides having a rather lousy September in terms of billings, this comes today from the editor ...

The Profit Motive; A response to Francois Tremblay

Friday, 29 August 2008 by Mike Gogulski
economics, philosophy | 24 Comments »

Oh, it's late. Anyway, here's the original link... Workers in general do not care about profits nearly as much as they care about their own wages and well-being. I'm not sure whether or not you fell off the definitional rails here. To ...