https://youtu.be/PXQIJ8ftwKM With nearly 100,000 members and over $5 million in annual income, couldn’t Democratic Socialists of America more effectively reduce capitalist exploitation on the margin by directly financing and staffing worker-owned cooperatives? - Chris...
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Socialist Greed vs. Free Market “Greed”
by Keith Knight | Oct 4, 2022 | Blog
A common scam involves taking a constant reality that always applies to everyone, then uniquely applying it to one set of people or one set of ideas. Which of the following sounds more greedy to you?: Give me your money or I'll have my employees put you...
10 Reasons I Left Progressivism for Libertarianism. Danny Duchamp & Keith Knight
by Keith Knight | Feb 14, 2022 | Don't Tread on Anyone
https://youtu.be/beOl_6ebVoU 1. People are more willing to make good decisions for themselves than others 2. People have better information on their preferences than other people 3. If you know you will control your future decisions, you are more able to make good...
DEBATE: Democratic Socialism v. Free Market Capitalism
by Keith Knight | May 12, 2021 | Don't Tread on Anyone
https://youtu.be/nohK6D99wVc In a socialist state, the government has arrogated to itself virtually all property and power of the country. Murray N. Rothbard Economic Controversies, p. 446 LBRY / Odysee:...
The Moral and Economic Case Against the Minimum Wage #FightAgainst15
by Keith Knight | Jan 18, 2021 | Don't Tread on Anyone
https://youtu.be/I5CJv00aojU Minimum wage laws tragically generate unemployment, especially so among the poorest and least skilled or educated workers... a minimum wage, of course, does not guarantee any worker’s employment; it only prohibits, by force of law, anyone...
How I Went From Progressive to Libertarian
by Keith Knight | Aug 29, 2020 | Don't Tread on Anyone
https://youtu.be/k_py4MDsCCI ... The distinctive feature of libertarians is that they coolly and uncompromisingly apply the general moral law to people acting in their roles as members of the State apparatus. Libertarians make no exceptions. For centuries, the State...
TGIF: Democracy Can’t Fix Socialism
by Sheldon Richman | Mar 6, 2020 | Economics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
However you feel about democracy, it can’t fix what’s wrong with socialism. In theory, modern representative democracy -- unlike ancient Greek direct democracy -- means that people vote for so-called representatives to fill various executive and legislative...
Episode 215: The Myth of ‘Swedish Socialism’ w/ Per Bylund
by Peter R. Quiñones | Feb 1, 2019 | Blog, Free Man Beyond the Wall
41 Minutes Suitable for All Ages Per Bylund, PhD, is a Fellow of the Mises Institute and Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship & Records-Johnston Professor of Free Enterprise in the School of Entrepreneurship in the Spears School of Business at Oklahoma State...
Episode 176: Gene Epstein – ‘Mommy Was a Commie, How I Rose from Stalinism to Libertarianism’
by Peter R. Quiñones | Nov 2, 2018 | Blog, Free Man Beyond the Wall
67 Minutes Suitable for All Ages Mance welcomes Gene Epstein to the show. Gene is an economist and former editor at Barron's Magazine who now is the Director of the Soho Forum Debate Series in NYC. Recently, Gene participated in a debate with Jacobin Magazine founder...
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Military Conscription is Slavery: Woodrow Wilson Edition
By the guidelines set down by the Selective Service Act, all males aged 21 to 30 were required to register to potentially be selected for military service. At the request of the War Department, Congress amended the law in August 1918 to expand the age range to include...
The Capitalist Competition Myth
Capitalism involves far more cooperation than competition—think of the number of mutually beneficial transactions you’ve had today compared to the number of competitions you’ve been in today - Chris Freiman, author of Why It's OK to Ignore Politics Democratic...
Blame Mexico? Blame Neocons! Blame Big Pharma! Blame the USA!
ABC News: If fentanyl is so deadly, why do drug dealers use it to lace illicit drugs? I have an alternative explanation. America has been fighting endless wars almost the entire century. Many have come home from these never-ending wars with injuries and pains. Doctors...
My Testimony Before the Maine State Senate
In support of Ld 1054, Defend the Guard legislation: Thank you all so much for the opportunity to testify before your committee today. Today is the 20th anniversary of the beginning of Iraq War II. The consensus now is that we should not have done it. Iraq was not...
These Iraq War Supporters Are Still in Congress
On March 19, 2003 the United States began its military invasion of Iraq. The Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq passed Congress in October 2002, with 296 congressmen and 77 senators voting in favor of giving President George W. Bush carte blanche...
Laci Green is Wrong: Democratic Competition vs. Free Market Competition
In environments where there's a lot of competition, people tend to lie out their ass and you can apply this to any competitive situation. Take capitalism. As industrialization took full effect, the Federal Government had to interfere because there was so much false...
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