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EXPLOITATION DEBATE – Marxism v. Libertarianism

by Keith Knight | Aug 9, 2021 | Don't Tread on Anyone

https://youtu.be/ifEMOxdEj3Q ... coercion benefits one party only at the expense of others. Coerced exchange is a system of exploitation of man by man, in contrast to the free market, which is a system of cooperative exchanges in the exploitation of nature alone.... coercion leads only to further problems: it is inefficient and chaotic, it cripples production, and it leads to cumulative and unforeseen difficulties. Seemingly orderly, coercion is not only exploitative; it is also profoundly disorderly....coercion and government intervention lead inexorably to hegemony, conflict, exploitation...

The Equality Debate: Libertarianism v. Progressivism

by Keith Knight | Aug 7, 2021 | Don't Tread on Anyone

https://youtu.be/5BJgay3eiQU ... men are not uniform... the species, mankind, is uniquely characterized by a high degree of variety, diversity, differentiation; in short, inequality. An egalitarian society can only hope to achieve its goals by totalitarian methods of coercion... Murray N. Rothbard Egalitarianism as a Revolt Against Nature, pp. 7–8 Antony Sammeroff co-hosts the Scottish Liberty Podcast and has featured prominently on other libertarian themed shows including The Tom Woods Show, Lions of Liberty, School Sucks Podcast, and many more. Article mentioned:...

Economics Professor DEBUNKS Arguments for Taxation!

by Keith Knight | Aug 5, 2021 | Don't Tread on Anyone

https://youtu.be/2FAIuJcX82A The ruling class is whichever group has managed to seize state power; the ruled are those groups who are taxed and regulated by those in command. Class interest, then, is defined as a group’s relation to the state. State rule, with its taxation and exercise of power, controls, and conferring of subsidies and privileges, is the instrument that creates conflicts between the rulers and the ruled. What we have, then, is a “two-class” theory of class conflict, based on whether a group rules or is ruled by the state. On the free market, on the other hand, there is no...

Debunking the Official WWII Narrative. David Swanson & Keith Knight

by Keith Knight | Aug 3, 2021 | Don't Tread on Anyone

https://youtu.be/rvti8k793W8 ... the libertarian stands foursquare for what are generally known as “civil liberties”: the freedom to speak, publish, assemble, and to engage in such “victimless crimes” as pornography, sexual deviation, and prostitution (which the libertarian does not regard as “crimes” at all, since he defines a “crime” as violent invasion of someone else’s person or property). Furthermore, he regards conscription as slavery on a massive scale. And since war, especially modern war, entails the mass slaughter of civilians, the libertarian regards such conflicts as mass murder...

The Magnificent Central Bank Swindle – Hans-Hermann Hoppe

by Keith Knight | Aug 1, 2021 | Don't Tread on Anyone

https://youtu.be/Esa0N156csY ... the privileged beneficiaries of inflation and depreciation are, largely, the central banks themselves and their stockholders, as well as merchants who borrow from these banks, and exporters who benefit by the depreciation of foreign exchange. All these are bought at the expense of the public. Murray N. Rothbard Classical Economics, p. 182 Excerpt from The Great Fiction by Hans-Hermann Hoppe: https://mises.org/library/great-fiction Hans-Hermann Hoppe, an Austrian School economist and libertarian/anarcho-capitalist philosopher, is Professor Emeritus of...

Dear Cenk Uygur, Supporting Government is Worse Than Supporting the Ku Klux Klan

by Keith Knight | Jul 30, 2021 | Don't Tread on Anyone

https://youtu.be/ldmXyqAnbmI Mankind is a mixture of good and evil, of cooperative and criminal tendencies. In my view, the anarchist society is one which maximizes the tendencies for the good and the cooperative, while it minimizes both the opportunity and the moral legitimacy of the evil and the criminal. If the anarchist view is correct, and the State is indeed the great legalized and socially legitimated channel for all manner of antisocial crime — theft, oppression, mass murder — on a massive scale, then surely the abolition of such an engine of crime can do nothing but favor the good...

Austrian Economics – An Introduction. Steven Horwitz and Keith Knight

by Keith Knight | Jul 29, 2021 | Don't Tread on Anyone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFtlXIfwfQ0 ...the Austrian theory of the trade cycle reveals that only the inflationary bank credit expansion that enters the market through new business loans (or through purchase of business bonds) generates the over-investment in higher-order capital goods that leads to the boom-bust cycle. Murray N. Rothbard Economic Controversies, p. 737 0:00 - Rothbard Quote 0:51 - What is economics? 2:14 - What makes the Austrian School of economics unique? 3:14 - What is an accurate way of measuring wealth in a given society? 4:37 - Why are some countries poor...

DEBATE: Agorism v. LPMC. Sal the Agorist vs. Keith Knight

by Keith Knight | Jul 28, 2021 | Don't Tread on Anyone

https://youtu.be/mvn8VK6SyN4 ... you cannot roll back or whittle away statism — whether it be the government’s inflation, its budget, or its numerous depredations and controls on the economy — by getting a few “good guys” in there to speak Truth to Mr. President. ... In the case of the State, the only thing that will roll back State power in any and all areas is the growth of a mass movement from below, i.e., among the public outside of and subjected to State power. Only a mass movement from below and outside: either by individual or organized actions, by ad hoc organizations, or by a...