These days, I cringe every time some minarchist or Objectivist invokes the US Constitution in debate.
It is just a piece of paper. It has no authority. There are no citizens.
Most arguments for the state rest on externalities. Is there a bigger externality than the state? Does any other institution or organization create more property rights violations?
Wake up from your comfortable lies and hand-me-down mythologies.
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This post was originally made at Praxeology.net, as part of a “To Paul or not to Paul” series about Ron Paul. I think it’s interesting that 18 months ago, Rod Long defined his position as such (emphasis mine),
I don’t support Ron Paul’s candidacy, then, because my own talents, proclivities, and commitments lie with the Agorist and left-libertarian projects, and I value the promotion of those projects over the short-term benefits that Paul’s candidacy might gain at the expense of those projects. But I can’t see that this preference is compulsory for everybody. Even if every libertarian ought to be an Agorist and a cultural lefty (and so they ought! – there are limits to my Aristotelean pluralism), it seems to me that it does not follow that every libertarian ought to make the trade-off between those long-run projects and the possible short-run gains from Paul’s candidacy the same way I do.
I’m all for people changing their mind or revising their assessments, but in light of Rod Long declaring that he will run for the LP Chair in Alabama, I can’t help wondering if he no longer values agorist and left-libertarian projects over politics.
A shift in time preference may be afoot. Perhaps the left-libertarian capital stock has been depleted, and long term projects have to be abandoned by the master builder.
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I have been wanting to catch up on so many things I intended to blog, and only now find myself with the time to do so.
One such item is the excommunication from the anarchist blogosphere (yeah, think about that) of a fella named Keith Preston. Seems Keith wrote some things that upset some people, namely Charles Johnson, Brad Spangler and Kevin Carson, amongst others.
I had never heard of Keith Preston until I saw this post on No State, and it intrigued me, because I have recently been cutting ties with paleos who are more conservative than libertarian.
So yesterday, I finally got around to giving the offending post by Preston a rigorous examination with a clear mind and a critical eye.
Continue reading On rejecting Keith Preston
On the Mises.org Blog, Mark Thornton has some damning past quotations from Paul Krugman which undermine his current statement that (emphasis mine),
One of the funny aspects of being a somewhat, um, forceful writer is that I’m regularly accused of all sorts of villainy. I was personally responsible for the demise of Enron; my nonexistent son worked for Hillary; etc.. The latest seems to be that I called for the creation of a housing bubble.
Continue reading Paul Krugman Exposed?
