Freedom lives at UT Austin
The New My Little Pony Show I recently watched an episode of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic that, I thought, sheds a lot of light on the mentality of the statist upper class. For those of you who inexplicably have not been watching this new show, let me explain the premise. The show takes [...]
Wants and Needs A typical characteristic of libertarians that is rarely found among other people is an assumption that it is desirable, possible, and practical to bring universal theorizing into politics. Libertarians desire a theory of politics that can be applied everywhere, to all societies, to all people, no matter how differently they should feel [...]
Communism is the vision of an egalitarian society with common ownership of property. Karl Marx, the father of communism, stated that the prevailing capitalist environment is responsible for class struggle and inequality among people. He believed that people’s lives are determined by their economic environment and in order to achieve the communist utopia, that environment has to be changed. For this change to occur, the working class (proletariat) must overthrow the existing regime, dismantle all capitalist institutions, and eliminate the possibility of a counterrevolution by the merchant class (bourgeoisie).
It is disturbingly easy for arguments originally employed on behalf of the free market to be turned against it. In this article I hope to redeem the concept of competition, which perhaps more than any other argument has been corrupted into the service of the state. Rather than as a peaceful, cooperative, and ordered network, [...]
In Rothbard’s vast compendium of economic wisdom, the great book Man, Economy, and State, we read much that has not yet been properly popularized. His production theory, for example, is quite different from the standard account. I have tried to distill his theory into this synopsis, but it is by no means the only part [...]
In a previous post, I have said that the progress of rights is constrained by two principles, that of homesteading and consensual exchange. The first says that property may not be acquired from nature without demonstrating ownership in some way. Originally this must require altering it some obvious way, but as a society develops a [...]
In this post I will discuss the nature of rights and the principles of homesteading and consensual exchange. This is certainly a more fundamental issue than the one discussed in a previous post, in which I described how a system of law can arise out of the network of contracts between people in a free [...]
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