https://youtu.be/rtKglXe5c3E When I say “capitalism,” I mean a full, pure, uncontrolled, unregulated laissez-faire capitalism—with a separation of state and economics, in the same way and for the same reasons as the separation of state and church. - Ayn Rand,...
https://youtu.be/RE_s4VDLt_0 [W]ar is simply a euphemism for theft-funded mass murder, a blatant crime that we would never dismiss if non-government actors were to engage in it. - The Voluntaryist Handbook Book discussed: We Kill Because We Can Laurie Calhoun's...
https://youtu.be/TXjlHzQijBA The heart of the liberal philosophy is a belief in the dignity of the individual, in his freedom to make the most of his capacities and opportunities according to his own lights, subject only to the proviso that he not interfere with the...
https://youtu.be/ukKSob-6aAM The human tragedy reaches its climax in the fact that after all the exertions and sacrifices of hundreds of millions of people and the victories of the Righteous Cause we have still not found Peace or Security, and that we lie in the grip...
https://youtu.be/IHenu8z3H9A The socialist society would have to forbid capitalist acts between consenting adults. – Robert Nozick, Ph.D., Anarchy, State, and Utopia (1974 [2013] Basic Books), p. 163. Watch full debate here: Democratic Socialism v. Free...
https://youtu.be/sDgfh4qilo4 Whereas Marx rejected chattel slavery and extrapolated a long historical march to an eventual socialist reordering through revolutionary upheaval, Fitzhugh saw a readily available alternative. “Slavery is a form, and the very best form, of...
https://youtu.be/py1C_4ZX174 The iron law of oligarchy is a political theory first developed by the German-born Italian sociologist Robert Michels in his 1911 book, Political Parties. It asserts that rule by an elite, or oligarchy, is inevitable as an "iron law"...
https://youtu.be/K5FagNGtif8 “My case for pacifism, to recap, comes down to three simple premises. The first two are empirical: Premise #1: The short-run costs of war are clearly awful. [Empirical claim about immediate effects of war]. Premise #2: The long-run...
