“A society is decaying as long as it focuses on money, which is the effect, and disrespects the cause, the producer. Money is the symbol and fruit of labour, and it should be appreciated as such. It represents the productive potential, but it is not the potential: in short, money is ‘dead’ in a sense that it is the earned potential converted into purchasing power. It is only the means and not the end. Therefore a virtue can create more money but no virtue can only store and loose it. Thus nothing is left when the money is gone if the potential (virtue) is gone.”
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The Law by Bastiat
January 9, 2007
Try to imagine a system of labor imposed by force that is not a violation of liberty; a transfer of wealth imposed by force that is not a violation of property rights. If you cannot do so, then you must agree that the law cannot organize labor and industry without organizing injustice.
Read the famous essay of Frédéric Bastiat.
The Criminality of the State
January 1, 2007Albert Jay Nock:
Here is the Golden Rule of sound citizenship, the first and greatest lesson in the study of politics: you get the same order of criminality from any State to which you give power to exercise it; and whatever power you give the State to do things for you carries with it the equivalent power to do things to you. A citizenry which has learned that one short lesson has but little more left to learn.
Read the essay from here.
Another great essay from Nock: Life, Liberty, and … which can be found from the introduction to his book Our Enemy, the State.
The Paradox of Imperialism
November 20, 2006Hans-Hermann Hoppe brings some light to the unstable condition of democracy: The Paradox of Imperialism.
The origin of the state
November 7, 2006Albert Jay Nock’s great piece about how he learned about the concept called state and its true nature: “Anarchist Progress”. It was originally published in the American Mercury in 1928, and now it is also available online as an ebook “On Doing the Right Thing“.