Libertarian Party members, in aggregate, may actually be the worst possible prospects for libertarian outreach, on average. What they have right is often outweighed by a firm commitment to what they have wrong. To paraphrase Reagan(?), I believe — it’s not what they don’t know, but what they do know (100%) that just isn’t so. Share [...]

…and I haven’t put up a poll in a while. Note: There is a poll within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post’s poll. Share This

Let’s temporarily set aside, solely for purposes of discussion, my own view that electoral politics is a wrong-headed approach for anarchists to use (regardless of the particular flavor of reformism one might prefer). One could easily say, after all, that we first need to get some slack back on civil liberties (and the so-called GWOT [...]

This is a test post, I\’m testing out the jott.com service. Jott basically turns your phone voice messages into text it allows you to type them just about anywhere on command, in this case to a blog post. listen\r\n\r\nPowered by Jott UPDATE: Bleah! That worked out pretty well, I suppose, but not as well as I [...]

I mourn the untimely passing of Vince Miller of ISIL, as do many others. Share This

Roderick Long has a pretty concise post up about ambiguity in the various definitions of “capitalism” and “socialism”. While B.K. Marcus didn’t directly mention that as a reason for his post of a relevant Mises quote, it seems to be good timing (perhaps in part because his name came up in the comments on Roderick’s [...]

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Email to Robert Cox of the Media Bloggers Association: – Forwarded message – From: Brad Spangler Date: Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 2:03 PM Subject: negotiations with the Associated Press To: info@mediabloggers.org Dear Mr. Cox, Kos thinks you’re a bunch of dumbasses: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/6/17/12241/5981/719/537292 …and so do I. Brad Spangler Share This

From Angela Keaton via e-mail: Since this will be my last term on the LNC [Libertarian National Committee], I decided to blog about it at Anarchist Bitch. It’s full of insults, tasteless remarks and LP craptastica. Share This

Comrade William Gillis has been putting together an absolutely marvelous market anarchist zine distro page at the agorism.info wiki for some time now. It’s my pleasure to announce he’s spinning the whole collection off into an independent effort — Invisible Molotov, as in “What gets thrown by an insurrectionary Invisible Hand?” Share This

Many thanks to a self-described agorist (and intern at the Foundation for Economic Education, FEE), one Mr. David Conner, who recently informed me of the Eugene S. Thorpe Award contest from FEE. This is an essay contest with a $2,000 prize! Additionally, the winning essay will be published in The Freeman, the flagship publication of FEE [...]

Vince Miller of the International Society for Individual Liberty [ISIL] has been hospitalized (and is currently in ICU, as I understand it) with a very serious health problem. If you’re a believer in the power of positive thinking or prayer, I would suggest that this libertarian stalwart of several decades standing would be a very [...]

I truly do understand that, for some, the Libertarian Party is their “temple”. It used to be mine also, after all. That metaphor seems to lose a certain degree of its “oomph!”, though, when you stop to consider that Smith is an atheist. Hey, I’m just sayin’… Share This

I’ve been thinking about how to distill some things about Rothbardian property theory, in the context of our existing state capitalist milieu, down to a single talking point. Let me bounce something off of you, the reader. Please leave comments. You can, of course, disagree with the point being made — but I’m principally interested [...]

Libertarian is an ethical term for the recognition of (and advocacy for recognizing) individual rights. When acted upon consistently, it overlaps with the political term “anarchism”. Watch this presentation. Share This

Why not a new party? I’ll tell you why. In my case, the answer to that question is because I’m against all political parties. I’m an anarchist. I am against the state. I believe that there is no way to govern, no program of public policy, that is consistent with the libertarian non-aggression principle. Thus, I can’t [...]

Scott Bieser provides an excellent analysis of the futility and counter-productive nature of the Libertarian Party. I endorse his call for a campaign to convince the LP to change their name to something else; something other than “Libertarian” as a “truth in advertising” thing. Furthermore, I also suggest we make it easier for them to determine to [...]

There are a variety of libertarian and anarchist-aligned efforts that continually need your financial support. While we all would like to think that the big donations from donors better off than ourselves can carry the weight, the awkward truth of these matters is that the non-corrupt organizations that refuse to sell out to the ruling [...]

Another note on left & libertarian fusion… Absorb the lessons contained in “Giving Libertarianism a Left Hook” [PDF] by Perry de Havilland of the UK’s Libertarian Alliance. Excerpt: Let us take the fact that as the airline industries across the world are said to be in dire troubles, various interventionist governments are pouring tax monies into flag carriers [...]

This looks promising as a good, basic, ultra-cheap field laptop for bloggers & activists — the Alpha 400. It runs Linux, of course. Supposedly, it can be ordered from here for $250 and that reportedly includes the courier cost (apparently from Hong Kong). Share This