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Libertarian anarchism, or voluntaryism, is a political philosophy based in the concepts of self-ownership, property rights, and the non-aggression principle. It views the State as a harmful, unneccessary institution that is fundamentally violent and predatory in nature. It imagines a peaceful alternative: a stateless social order founded upon individual rights and the principle of consent. While most of the thinkers on this site come from a market tradition, some great socialists are represented here as well. They have all contributed in some way to the understanding and advancement of liberty.
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Concentrated power can be always wielded in the interest of the few and at the expense of the many.
Source: The Principles of Anarchism (~1905–1910) [link] #607
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The market anarchist objection to government is simply a logical extension of the standard libertarian objection to coercive monopolies in general. First, from a moral point of view, among people regarded as equals it cannot be legitimate for some to claim a certain line of work as their own privileged preserve from which others are to be forcibly excluded; we no longer believe in the divine right of kings, and on no other basis could such inequality of rights be justified. Second, from an economic point of view, because monopolies are insulated from market competition and hold their customers by force, they lack both the information and the incentive to provide consumers with fair, efficient, and inexpensive service. The anarchist accepts these arguments, and merely asks why they should apply with any less force to the provision of legal services.
Source: Market Anarchism as Constitutionalism [link] #656
Anarchy is about empowering individuals to create their own communities and solve their own problems.
Source: Unknown #655
A genuine free enterprise system, without state-enforced artificial scarcities, artificial property rights or subsidies, would be like dynamite at the foundations of corporate power.
Source: "Free Enterprise" is Not Free Enterprise (2010) [link] #654
The shape of a free society is formed not only by anonymous economic tendencies and "market forces," but also by conscious social activism and community organizing.
Source: The Bold and the Desirable: A Prophecy and a Proposal (2012) [link] #653
We Voluntaryists believe that no true progress can be made until we frankly recognise the great truth that every individual, who lives within the sphere of his own rights, as a self-owner, and has not first aggressed upon others by force or fraud, and thus deprived himself of his own rights of self-ownership by aggressing upon these same rights of all others, is the one and the only one true owner of his own faculties, and his own property. We claim that the individual is not only the one true owner of his faculties, but also of his property, because property is directly or indirectly the product of faculties, is inseparable from faculties, and therefore must rest on the same moral basis, and fall under the same moral law, as faculties. Personal ownership of our own selves, of our own faculties, necessarily includes personal ownership of property. It would be idle, it would be a mere illusion, to speak of an individual, as owner of his own faculties, and at same time to withhold from him fullest and most perfect right over his property, if such property has been rightfully acquired through faculties (by rightfully we mean acquired without force or fraud), or inherited from those who have rightfully acquired it.
Source: The Principles of Voluntaryism and Free Life (1897) [link] #652
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