... "land" itself is not wealth because there is no labor component in producing it but the return on land or economic rent is a pure social surplus not...
Scott astutely answered the theoretical part. I just want to add a historical point. While the French "Economist Club" (Bastiat, Dunoyer, Molinari,...) stood...
... Maybe that's because after the physiocrats (and before Bastiat's generation) there came a school known as the industrialists... Here are some details ...
Yeah, but just think how long the book would have been if it included the anti-propertarian "libertarians!" Dan mentions a few people who could have been...
... Well, in short, no. While "libertarian" no doubt came into use as a calque for words like the French "libertaire", it did come into common use by...
... all wealth comes from the transformation of "land" (the entire material universe sans people) via labor into goods needed for sustenance...the economic...
I agree with you until you get to "landowners via a privilege to exclude, plunder the labor-based wealth of those being excluded." As a non-proviso Lockean I...
I've posted pdfs of my translation of Proudhon's "Philosophy of Progress" and the first issue of my new mutualist journal/zine, "LeftLiberty." The zine, along...
Dan> While "libertarian" no doubt came into use as a calque for words like the French "libertaire", it did come into common use by anarchists in the late 19th...
... sorry I meant in NON-proviso Lockean anarchy not proviso Lockean anarchy... of course land needs to be private property but the economic rent doesn't. this...
bg> "proviso Lockeans start off with the axiom that all "land" as locations starts out in common as an individual equal access opportunity right and labor...
I have an anarchist song you guys might like. It's about crisis-mongering by the State. http://www.ozarkia.net/bill/music/lyrics/HogeyeBill/CryCrisis.html ...
What would it be like living in a society without government? How excellent would it be to have a respite from the coercion, a highway to travel on without...
News & Views for Anarchists & Activists: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo Documents obtained by the Post-Dispatch show that extremist groups of all kinds...
Senator Mussolini (D-Cal) has proposed the "Road Neutrality Act" in an effort to prevent "tiered service" on the nations roads. "It has come to my attention...
http://www.hoover.org/publications/policyreview/41708942.html "Most political groups in modern history have wanted to build and control a state. Whether...
(This is a message I sent to a statist socialist at another forum. I thought people here might be interested in how government created the current fascist...
... ?!! Does this mean they're targeting file-sharers on behalf of the Copyright Nazis? -- Kevin Carson Center for a Stateless Society http://c4ss.org ...
On the Libertarian Alliance website, if you click on their "Economic Notes" page you'll find they carry quite a bit of stuff by Kevin Carson, Richard Garner,...
... Great article! I added the Nirvana fallacy to my dictionary. http://www.ozarkia.net/bill/anarchism/Fallacies.html#Nirvana Articles like this help people to...