OK, I am not condemning all liberals, but anti-authoritarian liberals should call out this blatant power grab for what it is.
Keynes vs. Hayek Round Two
It even includes a reference to Hayek’s “Who, Whom?” question. Bernanke’s double is great too.
Why Government Does Not Work
… and never will. So Frédéric Bastiat calling government “the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else” was more fitting than even he realized.
The Benefits of Being Exploited
Admittedly, the title is tongue-in-cheek. I don’t believe that there are any benefits of being actually exploited. It is a reference to Karl Marx’s mistaken theory of exploitation, which holds that the full benefit of the produce of labor rightfully belongs to the laborer. As the theory explains, owners of the means of production (who … Continue reading »
Re: People who Piss me off: Free Market Anarchists
Ad hominem attacks aside, YouTuber hawanja’s video on free-market anarchists seems to make the point that people “naturally organize themselves into hierarchies” that require violence to be maintained, so anarchism runs counter to the human condition. It is left unstated why violence is needed or ethically justified to maintain these hierarchies if they were so … Continue reading »
Re: The Con Job of Libertarian ‘Economics’
I commented on a hit piece on Austrian economics at the self-identified Marxist website Political Affairs. Besides being completely unwarranted and poorly written in terms of grammar and spelling, the blog post was riddled with misrepresentations and outright fabrications about the “Mieses Institute.” I posted a comment, and usually that would be the end of … Continue reading »
Theism Cannot Account for Objective Morality
I have addressed before why the notion of god is a contradiction and how objective morality can be discovered through empirical evidence. A point I have not mentioned is that many theists, despite their claims otherwise, hold that objective morality is impossible. Christians, for example, will claim that their god’s nature is all-good, establishing the … Continue reading »
The Government-vs.-Business Canard
The prevailing left-liberal position, as articulated by figures like Naomi Klein, is that big government is needed to hold big business in check, if not break it entirely. The argument primarily against reducing government power, as I understand it, is that autocratic big business would replace whatever reduction in government power were achieved. A conjoined … Continue reading »
An Empirical Account for the Validity of Morality and Individual Rights
There was recently a discussion on the Reddit’s Anarchism forum about the nature and origin of property rights. Many people, ironically both Objectivists and the vast majority of anarchists, believe that property rights would not exist in practice in the absence of a state to enforce those rights. My take is that certain property norms, … Continue reading »
