Why Government Must Be Abolished

LewRockwell ^ | 12-08-03 | Brad Edmonds

[gcruse]

Another way to look at it....

Misleading:   Liberal--D------------------------------------R----------------Conservative
Better:         Liberty-------------------------------------D--R---------------Authoritarian

The 'better' political spectrum indicates where the parties are in relation to what is more important to us, our freedom, rather than how they adhere to their respective party lines. 

[gcruse]

I'm glad to see you tap into Kafka. As you know, he's one of my faves.

[hellinahandcart]

I think we ought to read only books that bite and sting us. If the book we are reading doesn't shake us awake like a blow to the skull, why bother reading it in the first place? -Franz Kafka

Adrenalin junkie.

Some of us like books that give us a full body massage, a sloppy wet kiss, and breakfast in bed. And if he had to ask "why bother?"...

[adx]

Why Government Must Be Abolished

Oh yeah, Brad? You and what army? :-)

Anarchy is about as practical as pacifism. Everyone would have to play for it to work, and there's way too much incentive for someone to break the rules for it to ever be viable.

[LibertarianInExile]

Bad example. Somalia won. I don't see our government still hanging out there, do you?

[Cathryn Crawford]

You're not going to argue? XO

[Cathryn Crawford]

I'm glad to see you tap into Kafka. As you know, he's one of my faves.

I know it. I thought of you when I was posting it, and I actually meant to ping you to it. LOL

[Cathryn Crawford]

Pretty interesting idea. I enjoy hearing your analysis of these things, you know.

I'd like to watch one of those experiments. Anarchy in and of itself would be a horrible failure. The arguments are circular and illogical.

[Killborn]

Mr. Brad, I'm as anti-govt as you are but I know that we need some form of govt. Human nature will not allow a safe, stable, and just society without some form of rule.

Big Govt: Bad
Small Govt: Good
No Govt: Worse

[Cultural Jihad]

Very Lysander Spoonerish in tone.

Really? I thought it had a tint of Prince Kropotkin and a dash of Mikhail Bakunin, and just a subtle hint of Errico Malatesta.

[William McKinley]

You know what else would be interesting?

I'd like to see a business run itself like this.

A single business, maintaining the same continuity that any country or society must have (to some degree). Managed completely without management, in a world that expects companies to have management (the way that other countries expect to there to be governments to deal with).

I would think that if it is a viable way of working an society (be it a society of people or a society of workers), then it could be tried in that enviornment too.

Only there, the concern is not over warlords, but with sharks. ;-)

[Walkingfeather]

Tell you what lets drop this guy in the middle of the congo and let him see what anarchy comes from the edge of a Panga ( machete) You see anyone can make an outrageous statement when they know it can never be tested.... here are some... GLOBAL WARMING, Save the planet, save the whales, Free Tibet.

[tpaine]

JoeSchem wrote: There are 150+ governments running the world --

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Anarchy rules in much of the world..


The Coming Anarchy
Address:http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/foreign/anarchy.htm Changed:6:15 PM on Tuesday, December 9, 2003

[tpaine]

Mmmmm, -- Prince Kropotkin, Mikhail Bakunin, and Errico Malatesta, -- your heros, CJ ?

[Papabear47]

So many contradictions, so little time. Do you even read and understand what is that you write.

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

"So how is it "society" he hates?"

Answered by:

People like this author, and even me in my weaker moments, feel that those incapable of acting morally would soon be weeded out in an anarcho-capitalistic system.

Except you believe that it would be those who are "incapable of acting morally". That's because you believe that most people are basically moral. The fact is that most people are immoral. Thus, instead of weeding out those "incapable of acting morally", it would weed out those incapable of defending themselves from immoral people.

[tpaine]

"The fact is that most people are immoral."

97 posted by Anitius Severinus Boethius

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When was this decreed Anitius?
Must we agree, and obey?

[Blood of Tyrants]

I think you ought to get a large group of like minded people together and MAKE everyone --- oh, wait. Nevermind.

[91B]

The frontpage of that website states that: "The content of this website is primarily based on Ayn Rand's philosophy, Objectivism."

It is really interesting that it provides such a cogent critique of one of the arguments most frequently put forth by some of the more stringent libertarians, given that she is the high Priestess and Prophet of that worldview.