Anarcho-Capitalist Fiction

Some an-cap fiction for your pleasure:

J. Neil Schulman's Alongside Night

Vernor Vinge's The Ungoverned

Bob Murphy's Minerva

Agorism and the ever continuing Class War

Very nice essay describing a bridge from Marxist Liberalism to Anarchic Libertarianism.

Who Rules America?

Who Rules America is the website of G. William "Bill" Domhoff, a respected sociologist, author and Research Professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He denounces "conspiracy theories" but personally, I don't see much deviation from the generally accepted conspiracy theories that I am acquainted with and his conclusions. Interesting to find a scholarly work on the subject, that is not discredited by the mainstream.

"Q: So, who does rule America?

A: The owners and managers of large income-producing properties; i.e., corporations, banks, and agri-businesses. But they have plenty of help from the managers and experts they hire. You can read the essential details of the argument in this summary of Who Rules America?, or look for the book itself at Amazon.com."

Merry Christmas from a Sovereign Man

Merry Christmas!

As my gift to all you loyal readers :) I give you this link to the most incredibly rich depository of information about economic theory and history (that I just stumbled on). Its the Library of Economics and Liberty. Ordinarily I just post new links but this is such a treasure trove of good stuff that I never knew existed that I wanted to make an especially big deal of it.

Read and enjoy!

How States Fall and Liberty Triumphs

by Lew Rockwell

"All states everywhere enjoy power only because people are willing to continue to obey and not challenge the powers that be. This means that power is ultimately based on that illusive notion called legitimacy. Legitimacy can vanish in an instant, exposed as a façade that covers up the massive looting machine that is government. It is the role of all of us to break the silence. It is the role of the Mises Institute to teach, so that young people can state the truth in a way that others find compelling. The emperor may continue his march, but he will never again do it with the confidence that he can fool all the people, all of the time. Let us work toward a time when he fools no one."

see the full article here

Why I am an Anarchist by Caleb Johnson

Today I want to talk about the broad strokes behind individual sovereignty. However, it is unlikely I can improve on Caleb Johnson's excellent essay, so I instead I will let him tell you why he is an anarchist.

WHY I AM AN ANARCHIST

by Caleb Johnson

originally published at the New Hampshire Free Press

on March 12, 2008

I suppose that our evaluation of others is based, not so much on who they are as themselves, but rather on the face that they present to the world, and thus it is that often others are surprised when they learn that I am an anarchist. And I suppose that I can empathize with the initial confusion, for I myself only gradually came to accept the label of `anarchist' for many of the same reasons.

The End of the Dollar is Near, What will that mean for US

An article in Forbes a few days ago states that US debt including government, households and corporations is 840% of GDP. However, if you use the numbers from Truth in 2010, which hold that Federal Debt plus unfunded entitlements is at $73 trillion, then the total US debt would be over 1100% of GDP. Three percent interest on $110 trillion would be $3.3 trillion, one third of our GDP (assuming a GDP of roughly $10 trillion).

Wall Street Journal Debunks Conspriracy Theory

In an essay appearing the in the Wall Street Journal's Life and Style section, David Aaronovitch, a columnist for The Times of London, purports to tell us how to fend off the people who insist they know the real story behind everything. As commenters point out, he never actually gives us the 'how to' but he does go to great length expounding first on the reason that such theories emerge and then different tactics used by the tin foil hat crowd to circumvent the obvious logic of the mainstream "truth" in order to appear convincing.