Non-aggression Is Not An Axoim |
The non-aggression principle is not an axoim. By the term "axoim" I more or less mean something that is self-evident and irreducible, a stand-alone principle that functions as an obvious starting poin...
Posted by on Sun, 26 Jul 2009 07:56:00 GMT |
Thoughts on "Post-left" Anarchism and Left-libertarianism |
What is "post-left" anarchism? From what I have gathered, "post-left" anarchism is particularly a reaction to the conceptualization of anarchism propogated by people such as Noam Chomsky and Murray Bo...
Posted by on Mon, 20 Jul 2009 03:56:00 GMT |
Deconstruction Deconstructs Deconstruction |
Ben Carruth explains and muses on deconstruction: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-5JnpBp1VMMy thoughts: It seems to me that, while deconstruction can show us the fact that any given statement that we...
Posted by on Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:24:00 GMT |
Absolutist Propertarianism Dissolves All Rights |
In a strict propertarian view, all rights are property rights (and likely to be treated as commodities-in-themselves). In my view, property rights are an extension of (and inherently constrained by) a...
Posted by on Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:28:00 GMT |
History and Social Evolution |
There is an interesting history of what might be called "social evolutionary" ideas in political philosophy. This can be seen as being manifested in multiple ways, in the ideas of figures ranging from...
Posted by on Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:25:00 GMT |
Anarchist and Socialist Semantics and Historicity |
Over at his Austro-Athenian Empire blog, Roderick Long makes an excellent post in response to Stephan Kinsella's dogmatic anarcho-semantic insistance about the meaning of the term "socialism" (which w...
Posted by on Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:54:00 GMT |
Mathematics |
Mathematics is a series of languages or meta-languages of quantification, a conceptual apparatus for the purpose of expressing and analyzing quantity. In written or textual form, mathematics is a seri...
Posted by on Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:40:00 GMT |
The Power of Ideas and Words |
Libertarians generally tend to think of power in terms of the use of force or in terms of "political power". However, there are layers of power other than "political power", some of which overlap with...
Posted by on Thu, 04 Jun 2009 15:02:00 GMT |
Pacifism vs. Insurrectionism: A False Dillema |
There is a general traditional strategic split among anarchists between insurrectionary anarchism and pacifist anarchism. Insurrection is generally associated with either individual or public violent ...
Posted by on Wed, 03 Jun 2009 15:35:00 GMT |
Why I Reject "Self-ownership" Redux |
I've already written and made numerous videos on this, but I don't think I've put all of the objections together in one place. There are three major reasons that have lead me to reject the concept of ...
Posted by on Wed, 27 May 2009 14:59:00 GMT |
