"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
The Necessity, Virtue And Morality Of Organized Violence
Submitted by Eric Field on Tue, 2013-09-10 23:00
The title is unnecessarily provocative (in my opinion), but it's worth reading nonetheless.
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While I lean somewhat in that direction (http://strike-the-root.com/private-property-vs-your-stuff) I think the article as written is easy to interpret in many different ways, some of them pretty disreputable. For example there is not enough distinguishing between defensive and offensive violence.
From the article:
"...The purpose of a libertarian government is to create private property through the organized application of violence to create it..."
Note the author cannot conceive of liberty as anything more than another "government" -- this time a "libertarian government" (an oxymoron if I ever saw one). With him as a "founding father", of course.
One more of nearing 100 "isms" derived from, I suspect, a fear of genuine liberty. At the risk of over-lengthening my comment, I'll post here what I've come up with so far:
Various Libertarian and
Anarchist Labels
• Acclarism
• Agorism
• Anagorism (http://anagory.wordpress.com/2013/03/29/antilibertarian-antistatism/
• Anarchy
• Anarcho-Capitalism (Mises/Rothbard)
• Anarcho-communism
• Anarco-primitivism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-primitivism
• Anarcho-syndicalism
• Antilibertarian antistatism (see “Anagorism”)
• Anti-Positivism
• Apriorism
• Autarchism (Le Fevre)
• Carsonian mutualism
• Classical Liberalism
• Collectivist anarchist
• Communism
• Consequentialism
• Eco-agorism
• Eco-Libertarianism
• Eco-Socialist-Libertarian
• Egoist anarchism (Max Stirner)
• Establishment liberal left
• Existentialism
• Explicitly anarchist, pro-decentralist libertarians (Kinsella)
• Free Market Anarchism
• Free Market Capitalism http://www.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/rothbard146.html
• Geoanarchism
• Geoism
• Geolibertarianism
• Georgism
• Green-Libertarianism
• Individualism
• Individualist anarchism
• Individualist/collectivist anarchist Individualist/collectivist anarchism
• Kantianism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immanuel_Kant)
• Kratoclism http://www.marketmentat.com/i-think-i-maked-up-a-word-two-actually/
• Kritarchy http://www.voluntaryist.com/backissues/135.pdf P 8
• Left Libertarianism
• Left-Rothbardians
• Legal Positivism
• Liberal socialism
• Liberalism
• Libertarian
• Libertarian Anarchist
• Libertarian Populism (James Ostrowski)
• Libertarian Socialism
• Libertarianism
• Localism and decentralization
• Logical Positivism
• Market anarchism
• Minarchism
• Modal Libertarianism
• Modern Liberalism
• Moral consequentialism
• Mutualism
• Natural-rights libertarianism
• Neo-liberalism
• Neolibertarianism
• Objectivism
• Panarchism
• Patrio-psychotic anarcho-materialism http://www.subgenius.com/
• Plumbline Libertarianism
• Polycentrism
• Post-anarchism
• Post-left anarchy
• Post-modernism
• Post-structuralism
• Praxeology
• Primitivism
• Progressive Libertarianism
• Propertarianism http://www.propertarianism.com/
• Punkish/syndicalist/queer radical social anarchism (above two from Rad Geek site)
• Queer anarchism (“sex workers?”)
• Radical minarchists
• Right Libertarianism
• Rothbardian strain of market anarchism
• Schmodal Libertarianism
• Scientific Anarchism Social Darwinian right-wing economics
• Socialism
• Socialist Anarchism
• Socialist-Libertarianism
• syndicalism
• Syndicalist Anarchism
• Utilitarianism (Friedman’s strain of Anarcho-capitalism)
• Utopian socialism
• Voluntarism
• Zenarchism