Private transactions, because they’re voluntary, presumably benefit both parties or they wouldn’t have occurred in the first place. But since government transactions are financed via coercive transfers of wealth, there’s no way of knowing whether and to what extent people value the goods in question. The money to finance the goods was simply seized from them.

The greatest of all crimes are the wars that are carried on by governments, to plunder, enslave, and destroy mankind.

Anarchism -- a social philosophy which aims at the emancipation (economic, social, political and spiritual) of the human race.

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!

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!