Why Cypherpunks Shouldn't Vote for the system of their own oppression

Steven Schear schear.steve at gmail.com
Mon Oct 24 13:01:52 PDT 2016


If Frank Chodorov, The Rise and Fall of Society, is to believed, the demand
for the formation of governments, their morphing into The State and
eventual collapse is an oft repeated cycle that seems ordained.

https://mises.org/library/rise-and-fall-society

Warrant Canary creator

On Oct 24, 2016 10:51 AM, "jim bell" <jdb10987 at yahoo.com> wrote:

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> *From:* Razer <rayzer at riseup.net>
> The issue I'm having reading this thread about the US Erections is this
> list is ostensibly Anarchist and I don't understand why it's infested
> almost exclusively by Libertarians. Libertarians CANNOT be Anarchist ...
> because they believe in government. Small, but they BELIEVE that the US
> political system actually works in the interest of the people, or it can
> be made so.
>
> Not exactly, There are "anarchist libertarians" and "minarchist
> libertarians".  I was one of the latter, before 1995 when I
> discovered/invented my AP system.   Afterwards, I realized not only that
> having no government was possible, it was essentially inevitable.
>
> Note:  It is, strictly speaking, incorrect to say:  "Libertarians CANNOT
> be Anarchist ...because they believe in government."
> Libertarians believe in a certain set of limits to people's relationships
> and interactions with other people.  A Libertarian may believe that a small
> government is tolerable, and maybe still necessary; other libertarians may
> believe that a stable anarchy is possible.  (As I now do.)
>
>            Jim Bell
>
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