Proletarian Radical Agorist
Economics (P.R.A.E., pronounced “pray”) is an effort to promote the
preservation of the roots of family in political, economic, and social life;
and the examination of the etymological roots of political vocabulary words.
The proletariat is the reproductively fertile
class that proliferates and prolongs life. To be radical is to strike and grasp
at the root. The agora are the open
marketplaces for free and equal association and exchange. Economics denotes the
art and study of household financial management.
P.R.A.E. promotes catallaxy, the spontaneous
order which results from the mutual adjustment of many individual economies
(households) to one another. P.R.A.E. additionally supports counter-economics
and increased consumer influence on the regulation of marketplaces (towards
conditions of perfection and completeness of competition).
The U.S. federal Government has planned
approximately $200 trillion in future spending (major fiscal exposure). If the
workforce could double in efficiency and also productive capacity (productive
for the State) for the next 40 years (until people now in their late twenties
retire around 65), then in the 2050s, by the time our children are just a decade
or two older than we are now, we could see ourselves with balanced government
budgets, a sustainable post-scarcity economy with efficient distribution.
The yuppies won, transcended, and abandoned
the American Dream, making more and working less than their parents but also
than their children, sometimes even joining professional associations and
guilds so as to lower job mobility and the ability of children to enter the
same trades as their parents; this has increased animosity between the
generations.
However, with hard work, we might see a
situation in which our generation (or our children's generation) could be the
last generation to ever work under conditions of inadequate provision of the
tools necessary to perform the relevant tasks, and to pay part of the product
of labor to for-profit government as tribute.
P.R.A.E. is dedicated to:
- Promoting personal responsibility,
self-restraint, personal liberty, and the freedom to take risks.
- Discussing how to best teach the next
generation that private property (freedom to exclude) is conditional upon
periodic sharing; i.e., refraining
from always excluding others from equal freedom to access, use, possess, and
occupy.
- Protecting the right to refuse help, and
freedom from coercion and bribery into dependence.
- Ensuring the right of parents to refuse to
sign their children up for the selective military service (i.e., the draft).
- Protecting the right of parents to retain
custody of their children, free from unwarranted and arbitrary takings into
government custody, for reasons such as parental use of marijuana.
- Protecting the right to refuse to work, and
the freedom to work without being obligated to do so.
- Ensuring the ease of access to goods and
services, job markets (including sufficient means to perform the tasks of the
job), and volunteer organizations.
- Promoting productive, educational, and
personalized alternatives to over-structuring and over-scheduling children's
lives.
- Promoting parental responsibility to ensure
that next generation understands personal finance, insurance, economics, and
civics.
- Opposing efforts to criminalize
homeschooling and unschooling, and opposing the ideas that compulsory education
is a right and that it is desirable.
- Promoting parents' rights to pull their
children out of public school due to abusive teachers given tenure, bullying
rules designed to protect schools from legal liability, invasive security
practices, school tracking of students, school shootings and bombings, and lack
of freedom to independently pray.
- Promoting children's increased freedom to
study autonomously, although with adult supervision, and pursue their own
well-informed and realistic educational and skills training path.
- Parental responsibility to be attentive to
what their children read, watch, listen to, etc..
- Sharing news stories about child prodigies,
inventors, and academics.
- Raising awareness of Socratic maieutics;
that the truth is latent in the human mind, and that helpful discourse is
necessary to assist in the birth of the thought, to push it out and to express
it.
- Promoting the raising of children on or
near farms, near observable life processes like birth and death.
- Promoting the idea that a child's
well-being depends more on whether they have loving relatives than whether
their living environment passes some arbitrary modern standard of quality of
life.
- Promoting the idea that forcing children to
accept hugs from others when they are uncomfortable doing so, resembles child
abuse, more than does sending them to bed without dinner if they refuse to eat
and/or do their chores.
- Ensuring parents' freedom to give birth at
home, employ unlicensed doulas and midwives, and breast feed anywhere without
fear of ostracism.
- Ensuring parents' freedom to name their
children as they please, or to refrain from naming them.
- Ensuring parents' freedom to refuse to
report, register, and certify their child's birth with government.
- Ensuring that the next generation is free
from being expected and required to carry identification documents.
- Ensuring that the next generation is free
from being tracked for the purposes of collecting medical and other
information.
- Ensuring that the next generation is free
to object to compulsory association with the state, and other organizations, on
grounds of conscientious objections, or as James Madison put it, “religious
scrupulousness”.
If we work hard for long enough, our children
might never have to work at all if they choose not to. Regardless, the children
are still begging us to let them help.
We must ensure that young people, from those
in elementary school to those just entering the work force, have equal access
to the education, skills, and opportunities that will allow them (should they
choose to work) to become independent and self-sufficient, and productive
through trade / exchange.
We demand equal access to the factors of
production, not primarily as a dichotomy of workers against managers; and not
just as workers, managers, distributors, consumers, and taxpayers coming
together to negotiate on policy; but as families and single-person households
coming together to exempt the next generation from the chattel, wage,
political, and debt slavery of the communionistic, capitalist American
corporate state and its attempts to establish global domination and track all
human beings as if they were cattle.
P.R.A.E. also prays for a world free from
mass bird and bee deaths, in which, when we sit down to tell the next
generation about “the birds and the bees”, we won't have to explain that these
were creatures that have gone extinct.
Comedian Emo Phillips once remarked, “Children
are our most precious natural resource... I pray it never comes to that.”
