Those of lower economic rungs, if they put any thought to it at all, would tend to be left (non-property rights) libertarian because they are left much shorter on property to begin with.If we are to make a relatively sudden switch to a property right based, anarchic reality, how do w...
Outside the United States, the term "libertarian" refers toleft-wing anarchism. Libertarian Thought in America While there are libertarian factions within theDemocraticandRepublicanparties, neither party is particularly well aligned with libertarian thought. While the Republican Party sometimes adopts libert...
As a bonus, we now each have four hours left over before we go to sleep. This is time that could be used for leisure and relaxation. It could be used to satisfy other needs. Maybe one of us wants to try fishing, or building a boat? The time could also be used to build tools to...
I’ve also long wearied of being lectured that libertarianism is “really” left, that we can learn from the left. I agree that we are not “right”, butnor are we left! We are libertarians! We areneither left nor right; we are better than both. If anything the left needs to lear...
whereas in a natural order everyone is expected to spend his time exclusively on production or consumption, under democratic conditions, increasingly more time is spent instead on politics, i.e., on the advocacy and promotion of activities that are neither productive nor consumptive, but exploitativ...
No, libertarianism is not an option for Christians. Libertarians sound eerily like Milton’s Satan in PARADISE LOST. Liberty is not freedom to do what you want. The Christian believes liberty is freedom to do good. Paul’s point is that private entities and companies have the right to discr...
Neither you nor Milton Friedman are libetarians in the area of monetary policy. Full libertarians like Ron Paul are opposed to the use of monetary policy and favor a policy of laissez-faire with respect to the money supply, at the most, tying money to gold is the most government intervent...
a kibbutz, there is no material incentive for effort and not much incentive of any kind. There are two kinds of people who have no problem with this: deadbeats and saints. When a group joined a kibbutz, the deadbeats and saints tended to stay while the others eventually left. I left....
“We re-hired the guy whom we either knew or suspected was a liar with previous form in faking documents, who’d been sacked for wrongdoing in the US media, and who we knew was moonlighting for ITV while working for us. But neither of us is in any way to blame“ ...
(Locke 1690: Ch. 5).2 It is the possibility of a libertarian proviso in general, and Locke's effi- ciency-proviso in particular, that opens up for a utilitarian proviso for use of external resources – and thus a mid-version of libertarianism in between left- and right-liber- tarian...