http://www.stephankinsella.com/2009/08/01/what-libertarianism-is/ Austro-Anarchist Libertarian Legal Theory Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:41:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.stephankinsella.com/2009/08/01/what-libertarianism-is/comment-page-1/#comment-1636 The New Underground Railroad | Austrian Economics Blog Thu, 20 Aug 2009 13:03:27 +0000 http://www.stephankinsella.com/?p=1839#comment-1636 [...] It got me to thinking. The underground railroad “was an informal network of secret routes and safe houses used by 19th century Black slaves in the United States to escape to free states and Canada with the aid of abolitionists who were sympathetic to their cause”–was a network of people helping slaves to escape, to get away from oppressive regimes. Now, slavery means legal ownership of another person. Legal ownership means the legal right to control. Although the antebellum form of slavery has been abolished (in the US at least), the state still maintains legal ownership over us: it claims some ownership rights in our bodies when it claims the right to conscript us, regulate us, jail us for using drugs or evading taxes. So there is still slavery, of another form. It’s partial slavery, perhaps, but it’s slavery–bureaucratic, inescapable, cloying, repressive, democratic slavery. (For more on this see my What Libertarianism Is.) [...] [...] It got me to thinking. The underground railroad “was an informal network of secret routes and safe houses used by 19th century Black slaves in the United States to escape to free states and Canada with the aid of abolitionists who were sympathetic to their cause”–was a network of people helping slaves to escape, to get away from oppressive regimes. Now, slavery means legal ownership of another person. Legal ownership means the legal right to control. Although the antebellum form of slavery has been abolished (in the US at least), the state still maintains legal ownership over us: it claims some ownership rights in our bodies when it claims the right to conscript us, regulate us, jail us for using drugs or evading taxes. So there is still slavery, of another form. It’s partial slavery, perhaps, but it’s slavery–bureaucratic, inescapable, cloying, repressive, democratic slavery. (For more on this see my What Libertarianism Is.) [...]

]]> http://www.stephankinsella.com/2009/08/01/what-libertarianism-is/comment-page-1/#comment-1606 The New Underground Railroad | Austrian Economics Blog Wed, 19 Aug 2009 18:31:13 +0000 http://www.stephankinsella.com/?p=1839#comment-1606 [...] Now, slavery means legal ownership of another person. Legal ownership means the legal right to control. Although the antebellum form of slavery has been abolished (in the US at least), the state still maintains legal ownership over us: it claims some ownership rights in our bodies when it claims the right to conscript us, regulate us, jail us for using drugs or evading taxes. So there is still slavery, of another form. It’s partial slavery, perhaps, but it’s slavery–bureaucratic, inescapable, cloying, repressive, democratic slavery. (For more on this see my What Libertarianism Is.) [...] [...] Now, slavery means legal ownership of another person. Legal ownership means the legal right to control. Although the antebellum form of slavery has been abolished (in the US at least), the state still maintains legal ownership over us: it claims some ownership rights in our bodies when it claims the right to conscript us, regulate us, jail us for using drugs or evading taxes. So there is still slavery, of another form. It’s partial slavery, perhaps, but it’s slavery–bureaucratic, inescapable, cloying, repressive, democratic slavery. (For more on this see my What Libertarianism Is.) [...]

]]> http://www.stephankinsella.com/2009/08/01/what-libertarianism-is/comment-page-1/#comment-1588 The New Underground Railroad « LewRockwell.com Blog Wed, 19 Aug 2009 07:19:43 +0000 http://www.stephankinsella.com/?p=1839#comment-1588 [...] Now, slavery means legal ownership of another person. Legal ownership means the legal right to control. Although the antebellum form of slavery has been abolished (in the US at least), the state still maintains legal ownership over us: it claims some ownership rights in our bodies when it claims the right to conscript us, regulate us, jail us for using drugs or evading taxes. So there is still slavery, of another form. It’s partial slavery, perhaps, but it’s slavery–bureaucratic, inescapable, cloying, repressive, democratic slavery. (For more on this see my What Libertarianism Is.) [...] [...] Now, slavery means legal ownership of another person. Legal ownership means the legal right to control. Although the antebellum form of slavery has been abolished (in the US at least), the state still maintains legal ownership over us: it claims some ownership rights in our bodies when it claims the right to conscript us, regulate us, jail us for using drugs or evading taxes. So there is still slavery, of another form. It’s partial slavery, perhaps, but it’s slavery–bureaucratic, inescapable, cloying, repressive, democratic slavery. (For more on this see my What Libertarianism Is.) [...]

]]> http://www.stephankinsella.com/2009/08/01/what-libertarianism-is/comment-page-1/#comment-1374 Why Airwaves (Electromagnetic Spectra) Are (Arguably) Property | Austrian Economics Blog Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:17:44 +0000 http://www.stephankinsella.com/?p=1839#comment-1374 [...] in airwaves is basically this, as I see it. It is based on the basic idea of homesteading (see my What Libertarianism Is). Under this approach, every scarce resource–things that can be contested; rivalrous things; [...] [...] in airwaves is basically this, as I see it. It is based on the basic idea of homesteading (see my What Libertarianism Is). Under this approach, every scarce resource–things that can be contested; rivalrous things; [...]

]]> http://www.stephankinsella.com/2009/08/01/what-libertarianism-is/comment-page-1/#comment-1302 Why Airwaves (Electromagnetic Spectra) Are (Arguably) Property Mon, 10 Aug 2009 00:05:01 +0000 http://www.stephankinsella.com/?p=1839#comment-1302 [...] in airwaves is basically this, as I see it. It is based on the basic idea of homesteading (see my What Libertarianism Is). Under this approach, every scarce resource–things that can be contested; rivalrous things; [...] [...] in airwaves is basically this, as I see it. It is based on the basic idea of homesteading (see my What Libertarianism Is). Under this approach, every scarce resource–things that can be contested; rivalrous things; [...]

]]> http://www.stephankinsella.com/2009/08/01/what-libertarianism-is/comment-page-1/#comment-1046 Body Rights and Property Rights Mon, 03 Aug 2009 19:34:49 +0000 http://www.stephankinsella.com/?p=1839#comment-1046 [...] my paper What Libertarianism Is (in the recently-published Property, Freedom, and Society: Essays in Honor of Hans-Hermann Hoppe), [...] [...] my paper What Libertarianism Is (in the recently-published Property, Freedom, and Society: Essays in Honor of Hans-Hermann Hoppe), [...]

]]> http://www.stephankinsella.com/2009/08/01/what-libertarianism-is/comment-page-1/#comment-1045 Property Rights as Body Rights Mon, 03 Aug 2009 19:33:33 +0000 http://www.stephankinsella.com/?p=1839#comment-1045 [...] my paper What Libertarianism Is (in the recently-published Property, Freedom, and Society: Essays in Honor of Hans-Hermann Hoppe), [...] [...] my paper What Libertarianism Is (in the recently-published Property, Freedom, and Society: Essays in Honor of Hans-Hermann Hoppe), [...]

]]> http://www.stephankinsella.com/2009/08/01/what-libertarianism-is/comment-page-1/#comment-980 A Critique of Mutualist Occupancy | Austrian Economics Blog Sun, 02 Aug 2009 15:32:19 +0000 http://www.stephankinsella.com/?p=1839#comment-980 [...] Critique of Mutualist Occupancy BY admin ON August 2nd, 2009 In my contribution What Libertarianism Is in the Hoppe Festschrift, Property, Freedom and Society, I included a very long footnote (23) [...] [...] Critique of Mutualist Occupancy BY admin ON August 2nd, 2009 In my contribution What Libertarianism Is in the Hoppe Festschrift, Property, Freedom and Society, I included a very long footnote (23) [...]

]]> http://www.stephankinsella.com/2009/08/01/what-libertarianism-is/comment-page-1/#comment-978 A Critique of Mutualist Occupancy Sun, 02 Aug 2009 14:59:13 +0000 http://www.stephankinsella.com/?p=1839#comment-978 [...] my contribution What Libertarianism Is in the Hoppe Festschrift, Property, Freedom and Society, I included a very long footnote (23) [...] [...] my contribution What Libertarianism Is in the Hoppe Festschrift, Property, Freedom and Society, I included a very long footnote (23) [...]

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