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The Gun in the Room

April 29, 2008

It is a wearying but essential task to keep reminding people that the state is nothing but an agency of violence. When someone talks about “the welfare state helping the poor,” we must point out the gun in the room. When someone opposes the decriminalization of marijuana, we must point out the gun in [...]

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I’ve Been Tagged!

January 4, 2008

…by Matt at Without Hyphens, in A Meme for Market Anarchists, Left Libertarians, Agorists, etc.
What motivated you to start looking into Anarchist/Libertarian thought?
For me, the ball started rolling with Russ Roberts’ The Choice in my final year of undergrad, although I had previously been exposed to the elementary ideas of general libertarianism, the minimal state, [...]

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5th Sentence meme

June 16, 2007

Franc echoes fifth sentence meme, by way of bkmarcus at lowercaseliberty.
Grab the nearest book.
1. Open it to page 161.
2. Find the fifth full sentence.
3. Post the text of the sentence along with these instructions.
Don’t search around looking for the coolest book you can find. Do what’s actually next to you.
Here goes:
The protectionist asks: What under [...]

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