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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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Almost all the anti-social behavior which makes us think it’s necessary to have armies, police, prisons, and governments to control our lives, is actually caused by the systematic inequalities and injustice those armies, police, prisons and governments make possible.
Source: Are You An Anarchist? The Answer May Surprise You! (2000) [link] #321
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The greatest of all crimes are the wars that are carried on by governments, to plunder, enslave, and destroy mankind.
Source: Vices Are Not Crimes (1875) [link] #729
Anarchism -- a social philosophy which aims at the emancipation (economic, social, political and spiritual) of the human race.
Source: Anarchism in America Documentary (1983) [link] #728
We libertarians defend economic freedom, not big business. We advocate free markets, not the corporate economy. And what would freed markets look like? Nothing like the controlled markets we have today. But how often do we hear mass unemployment, financial crisis, ecological catastrophe, and the economic status quo attributed to the voraciousness of "unfettered free markets"? As if they were all around us!
Source: The Many Monopolies (2013) [link] #727
It is obscene to undermine the glorious operation of the market in producing wealth and abundance by imposing artificial scarcity on human knowledge and learning... Learning, emulation, and information are good. It is good that information can be reproduced, retained, spread, and taught and learned and communicated so easily. Granted, we cannot say that it is bad that the world of physical resources is one of scarcity -- this is the way reality is, after all -- but it is certainly a challenge, and it makes life a struggle. It is suicidal and foolish to try to hamper one of our most important tools -- learning, emulation, knowledge -- by imposing scarcity on it. Intellectual property is theft. Intellectual property is statism. Intellectual property is death. Give us intellectual freedom instead!
Source: The Death Throes of Pro-IP Libertarianism (2010) [link] #726
Knowing libertarian theory -- the rules of peaceful interactions — is like knowing the rules of logic -- the rules of correct thinking and reasoning. However, just like the knowledge of logic, as indispensable as it is for correct thinking, does not tell us anything about actual human thought, about actual words, concepts, arguments, inferences and conclusions used and made, so the logic of peaceful interaction (libertarianism) does not tell us anything about actual human life and action. Hence: just as every logician who wants to make good use of his knowledge must turn his attention to real thought and reasoning, so a libertarian theorist must turn his attention to the actions of real people. Instead of being a mere theorist, he must also become a sociologist and psychologist and take account of "empirical" social reality, i.e., the world as it really is.
Source: A Realistic Libertarianism (2014) [link] #725
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