Reader feedback
Tuesday, 4 August 2009 by Mike Gogulskipeople | 3 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 Gogulskieconomics, 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 Gogulskiphilosophy | 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 Gogulskidiary | 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 Gogulskidiary, 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 Gogulskieconomics, 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 ...
