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It is often said that the market existed well before modern-day capitalism as it is currently structured. This is a partially true statement, a relatively true assertion. In my opinion, with the hegemony of capitalism came the primacy of the market, not the genesis of the......Read More

Posted on: 2008-02-03 11:30:09 | Rating:

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I had a newsgroup discussion with a Woodard R. Springstube, who wrote these words: "What you don't understand is that most socialists seem to think that the world owes them a free ride as a reward for their (imagined) superiority." I answered this with these words:......Read More

Posted on: 2008-02-03 11:42:10 | Rating:

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We all know that contracts can be challenged in a court of law. But, we also know that those who use contracts to shake others down have some of the best lawyers which money can buy, to help them in their many crooked and acquisitive hustles. It is obvious that like contracts, courts are......Read More

Posted on: 2008-02-03 11:45:38 | Rating:

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In real-world capitalism, contracts are a coercive instrument; and contracts are daily used as a hard and brutal means to legally divest the defeated party, the loser, of value and property. The party on the dire side of a contract is, as I see it, like a prisoner of a harsh and......Read More

Posted on: 2008-02-03 12:00:12 | Rating:

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As a rule, in a capitalist political-economy -- where the competitive economic war of all against all is played out -- contracts are precisely used as an instrument of private aggrandizement. The world of capitalism is replete with day-to-day examples of harmful contracts. As......Read More

Posted on: 2008-02-03 12:07:42 | Rating:

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"I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself." -- Pietro Aretino ...Read More

Posted on: 2008-02-03 12:10:32 | Rating:

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If I wish to be a virtuous, honorable, decent, respectable, noble and just human being, then I must freely govern my own self, my own acts, my own volition, by voluntarily observing and obeying those moral principles which I truly do believe, which I really do accept, and in which I......Read More

Posted on: 2008-02-03 12:14:40 | Rating:

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I do not believe that democracy is only a tool for liberty, because I believe that democracy is itself social, political and economic freedom. There can be no democracy without freedom; and, there can be no freedom without democracy. One is not the tool of the other; both are......Read More

Posted on: 2008-02-03 14:08:56 | Rating:

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Although there were, and are differences between the anarchists and the marxists, nevertheless the libertarian marxists believe that the possible, anticipated future they both desire and demand will be an anarchist future, not an authoritarian future. The hope that the state will wither......Read More

Posted on: 2008-02-03 14:24:04 | Rating:

| Views: 32 | Comments: 0 | Tags: Marxism Anarchism The State

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It is possible for human beings to create a unified and common world without authoritarian states, without authoritarian governments, and without arbitrary territorial borders. It is not possible for human beings to live without societies, without self-government, and without freedom of......Read More