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Showing posts with label agorist. Show all posts
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Wednesday, January 20, 2016
Wednesday, May 7, 2014
Agorist Protection Agencies and Syndicates Thereof
Written in May 2013,
edited in May 2014
One of the ways [Samuel E.] Konkin [III] wrote that Agorist protection agencies (if all were threatened by invasion by the State) could defend themselves against the State, would be for the counter-economy to form “larger syndicates than the ones they form [if] a local protection company [goes] renegade” – and to “[generate] the syndicates of protection agencies sufficiently large to defend against the remnant of the State” – by means of “policy holders of all the insurance and protection companies… throw[ing] all their combined resources… on defense of the common ground”.
“Large syndicates of market protection agencies are containing the State by defending those who have signed up for protection-insurance.”
“…actual physical confrontation with the State’s enforcers must await the market’s generation of protection agency syndicates of sufficient strength; all else is premature.”
“The most motivated New Libertarians will move into the research and development supply for the budding agorist protection and arbitration agencies and lastly as directors of the protection company syndicates.”
“The collapse of the State leaves only mopping up operations. Since the insurance and protection companies see no State to defend against, the syndicate of allied protectors collapses into competition and the NLA [New Libertarian Alliance] - its support gone - dissolves. Statists apprehended pay restoration and if they live long enough to discharge their debts, are re-integrated as productive entrepreneurs (Their “training” comes automatically as they work off their debt.)”
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more entries on enterprise, business, business alliance, and markets,
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http://www.aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2010/10/enlightened-catallaxy-reciprocally.html
http://www.aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2014/04/labor-protectionism.html
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Sunday, April 20, 2014
Using Profit Incentive to Promote Protection of the Poor
Written on June 5th, 2012
In an Agorist, Panarchist, or Polyarchist society, everyone would be expected to submit their disputes to some -
not necessarily the same - independent third party arbitrator, so
nobody could choose not to be governed, but we'd all have more
choices in regards to who governs us, as well as in what respects.
Given
that most people in America today think that the rich should pay more
in taxes than the middle-class and poor, I think it is very likely
that such an outcome would arise simply through the eventual
acceptance of a social / economic custom, whereby people urge one
another to only choose who governs them from among a set of
governments that tax the rich more than the poor. The governments that
don't would be picketed, boycotted, have negative information spread about them.
Their managements could be confronted by any combination of their
workers, outside protesters, disgruntled former citizens, or
potentially even sued for fraud by agencies of fair, neutral, and
independent court systems (see "Chaos Theory" by Robert
Murphy for a more detailed description of how courts could work
absent compulsory government).
In an Agorist, Panarchist, or Polyarchist society, property protection / insurance
would be a function of "governments", and the problem of
wealth disparity would be addressed - to the extent to which people
with property want to keep it safe from those who would take it (and
keep themselves safe from those who would kill them in order to take
their property - and so they would be willing to pay more in order to
do so. This would be on top of the fact that they would already
be paying more to
protect their property because they have
more of it than
most other people, so this system could even function like an
accelerating (exponential) progressive tax.
The
wealthy who don't pay to have their property protected / insured
would have no reason to expect people not to steal it (this is a
proposition which could even be construed to suggest that uninsured
property claims are illegitimate). Any "government"
protecting the wealthy's property for a reduced premium would -
essentially - be doing a charity service, which risks their bottom
line, so there would be less of a financial / business incentive to
allow for the vast accumulation of wealth in private hands.
For
more entries on enterprise, business, business alliance, and markets,
please
visit:
http://www.aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2010/10/enlightened-catallaxy-reciprocally.html
http://www.aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2010/10/enlightened-catallaxy-reciprocally.html
http://www.aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2014/05/agorist-protection-agencies-and.html
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more entries on taxation, please visit:
http://www.aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2014/05/tax-cuts.html
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Thursday, October 25, 2012
Two Competing Class Theories
Man is more enslaved by desires than by his needs,
and by his needs more than by his captors,
but by none of these so much as he is enslaved by ideology.
The proper set of ideas allows him to think his captors into or out of existence.
and by his needs more than by his captors,
but by none of these so much as he is enslaved by ideology.
The proper set of ideas allows him to think his captors into or out of existence.
The proper set of captors allow him to seize or liberate that which satisfies his needs.
The proper set of satisfied needs allows him to yearn for or forsake his desires.
The proper set of nourished desires allows him to
dream himself,
control himself, need himself,
and even to transcend desire itself.
As such, the revolution must be intellectual, political, biological, and spiritual,
and - if for some reason all of these things cannot be pursued simultaneously -
and in that order of priority, although not without equal importance.
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The above prose and images were inspired
by Wally Conger's "Agorist Class Theory",
as well as by the work of Karl Marx,
Max Stirner and Hannah Arendt.
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