Free-market Capitalism Is A Network Of Free

It Is Particularly Odd That Economists Who Profess To Be Champions Of A Free-market Economy, Should Go To Such Twists And Turns To Avoid Facing The Plain Fact: That Gold, That Scarce And Valuable Market-produced Metal, Has Always Been, And Will Continue To Be, By Far The Best Money For Human Society.

The Libertarian Sees The State As A Giant Gang Of Organized Criminals, Who Live Off The Theft Called "taxation" And Use The Proceeds To Kill, Enslave, And Generally Push People Around. Therefore, Any Property In The Hands Of The State Is In The Hands Of Thieves, And Should Be Liberated As Quickly As Possible. Any Person Or Group Who Liberates Such Property, Who Confiscates Or Appropriates It From The State, Is Performing A Virtuous Act And A Signal Service To The Cause Of Liberty.

I Define Anarchist Society As One Where There Is No Legal Possibility For Coercive Aggression Against The Person Or Property Of Any Individual. Anarchists Oppose The State Because It Has Its Very Being In Such Aggression, Namely, The Expropriation Of Private Property Through Taxation, The Coercive Exclusion Of Other Providers Of Defense Service From Its Territory, And All Of The Other Depredations And Coercions That Are Built Upon These Twin Foci Of Invasions Of Individual Rights.

It Would Be An Instructive Exercise For The Skeptical Reader To Try To Frame A Definition Of Taxation Which Does Not Also Include Theft. Like The Robber, The State Demands Money At The Equivalent Of Gunpoint; If The Taxpayer Refuses To Pay, His Assets Are Seized By Force, And If He Should Resist Such Depredation, He Will Be Arrested Or Shot If He Should Continue To Resist.

Absolute Freedom Need Not Be Lost As The Price We Must Pay For The Advent Of Civilization; Men Are Born Free, And Need Never Be In Chains. Man May Achieve Liberty And Abundance, Freedom And Civilization.