Precis Only ANARCHO-CAPITALISM Presented on 14/06/11

For the Undamned Individual Tony Dear

A. Preamble
 

1. 'A-C' means anarcho-capitalism or anarcho-capitalist.
2. Explanation of title: The individual is damned by restriction of his rights. A-C is seen as the best social system to undamn him.
3. Cogency of this talk relies on three things:
(a) Thinking logically (L).
(b) Recognising damnation (D).
(c) Thinking outside the box (B).
4. Example of (L): If a god needs to be omnipotent, only one of the many gods could have existed.
 
  B. Brief History of Power and Worship
Power
1. Chimpanzees: One chimp had power over the group.
2. Cave men: Use of club, etc. for power.
3. Tribe formation: Leader has power over tribe
4. Villages/towns: Politicians make rules for citizens.
5. Countries: Kings (individuals holding mystique conferred by the people) – ruthless dictators. Later political dictators – e.g. Stalin, Hitler, Gadaffi, Idi Amin, Mugabee, Ceausescu, Kim Jog Il. D.
Worship

Worship of: sun/moon >>>gods in human form (Greek/Roman)>>>humans posing as gods
(Jesus)>>>kings/queens (deference as to a god)>>>pope/imams>>>
Collingwood fans (unconditional admiration)>>>worship of celebrities
(sports, film, etc.) D.

Thus, the use of power and worship has, through man’s history, damned the individual. Morality has been forced on us from above. Individuals have always been prevented from making their own life decisions and from being accountable for the results. WE HAVE COME TO ACCEPT THAT SOME PEOPLE ARE ENTITLED TO CONTROL OTHERS. B and D.

C. Politics As an A-C, I make two claims:
  1. (Surprising?) I am probably the most left-wing person here.
  2. I am the most anti-socialist person here.
Evidence

A spectrum is defined as variation of a concept from one extreme to another.
E.g.
 
 






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FREQUENCY OF ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES L

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radio micro light X-rays Gamma rays

low extreme high extreme

 ACCEPTED POLITICAL SPECTRUM not L

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Communism Democracy Fascism

This is wrong. What changes from one extreme to the other? Nothing! This ‘spectrum’ is

a poor, counter-educational tool.

THE REAL POLITICAL SPECTRUM L

 Fixed limit anarcho- Bakunin’s democracy Marxist communism The Islamic

capitalism syndicalism socialism fascism state

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 Max Stirner No limit

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loss of rights*

*Stirner advocated fist-fights to settle disputes. This leads to loss of rights.

This is a logical spectrum showing freedom on the left wing, control on the right.

Hence, the A-C is left wing. Socialist control increases towards the right L.

D. Some Differences Between A-C and Socialism/Communism/Fascism

ISSUE ANARCHO-CAPILISM (A-C) SOCIALISM/FASCISM

Censorship None at all Degrees of censorship of films, speech, racist taunts, etc.

Religion OK Some suppression; subsidies, wars.

Taxation None Arbitrary levels based on whims of governments

Monarchy Optional. Market driven Common

Racism People treated purely as individuals – not Racist migration, health services, race members. housing, etc.
Homo- Treated same as heterosexuality Some controls, especially marriage.

sexuality

Drug use OK Various levels of control
 
 
 
 
 
 

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 The A-C and the Conservative – the Fundamental Difference

eg. Drug Use

The conservative denigrates the use of recreational drugs. The A-C may, or may not, but will never legislate against it, regardless of his personal views. The conservative will legislate against it. The same applies to all other victimless activities such as homosexuality and religion.

E. Damning the Individual

Some Examples

  1. Curfews, speed humps, censorship, all regulations, speed limits, watering controls,

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    Internet filters, gun control.

    All these issues involve unjust government control of everyone, most of whom are innocent. Only the individuals who infringe on the rights of others in these areas should be accountable.

  2. Democracy: A damning social system. Here are some reasons:
    1. We elect what most people see as incompetent people.
    2. We vote for a candidate on a contentious issue, but he always supports

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      other issues we disagree with. So the vote loses its value.

    3. Even if he were half-acceptable, he may be overruled in parliament.
    4. Most candidates are elected with 50-odd percent of votes. This means

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      About 40-odd per cent are dissatisfied. By this stage, the vote is worth

      approximately nothing. The individual has been damned.

    5. All this futility costs a lot of people’s time and resources.
  3. Another View of Democracy
It is the "welfare-warfare’’ state in which some people vote for something – e.g. a government handout – while others vote against it.

A Protesting Voice: ‘but if everyone thought this way, nobody would vote!’. But people always vote, even when it isn’t compulsory. If they did almost stop voting, it would be a spur for people to vote again – a negative feed-back system. B, L, and D.
  1. Crimes of Governments

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    TAXATION

    Check dictionary definition of ‘taxation’. Same as theft.

    COUNTERFEITING

    Printing unbacked money, deficit spending, allowing banks to lend unbacked

    money –all are forms of counterfeiting.
     
     








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    STANDOVER TACTICS

    All arbitrary invasions, e.g. Iraq, Vietnam, Korea, Russian satellites, British Empire.

    NB. Afghanistan invasion was legitimate until Bin Laden captured.

    PROTECTION RACKETS

    ‘The compulsory payment of money for protection against competition, or against threat of violence’. eg. all licences fit this definition. E.g. We pay a licence fee to government, which then prevents competition from people who do not pay the licence fee.

    VIOLENCE ON STREETS

    Mainly by non-democratic governments. Violence by demonstrators should also be penalised.

    CORRUPTION

    Misuse of taxes. E.g. Gold cards for politicians, tax-paid policy advertising, legislation favouring a particular business.

    MONOPOLIES

    Post Office, railways and roads. (coercive monopolies). Free market monopolies can exist only by out-performing all others.

    RACISM

    Certain races are favoured, eg. Aboriginal health services, committees, land. In a free society, racist and all other taunts are not crimes any more than general rudeness is. Ultimately, taunting and racial discrimination penalises the offenders, commercially and socially.

    KIDNAPPING

    Euphemistically called ‘conscription’. Note that all politicians exempt themselves from conscription.

    THREATENING BEHAVIOUR

    Government police threaten drivers through advertisements, and employers concerning their ‘duties’ to employees. People see police as enemies, rather than

    protectors.

    DISSERVICE

    Poor service in the areas of water and electricity supply lead to fascistic controls on water and electricity use. These controls are crimes. Disservice is not a crime in a free society, but would be commercially penalised.

    Conclusions

    1. These crimes, because they are committed over thousands of years, prevent people

    from seeing governments and political leaders as criminals. B.

    2. Individuals cannot be expected to be moral when immorality is universally

    practised from above or imposed by religions.

    3. Atheists, having rightly criticised religions for imposing their whims on people,

    should now apply this to governments, which have the force of law to enforce their whims.
     
     




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  2. Two types of A/C are:
(a) Those with a purely intellectual approach.

(b) Those indignant enough to also practice it where possible. I am in the latter category.

Here are some practical ways:

1. I don’t vote, for reasons as in section D.

2. I cross roads against signs D.

3. I shoot at protected species which are pests, eg white cockatoos and possums D.

4. I accost dog owners whose dogs foul pathways (government control inadequate).

5. I Spent time in police cells on, eg: seat-belt issues D.

6. I ignore watering controls (governments should capture enough water). D.

7. I use graffiti. Paul Krutulis (A/C), gained fame in mid seventies regarding compulsory unionism. Stood for Senate for (capitalist) Workers Party. He and I were soulmates.

Examples of our graffiti were:
    1. ‘Bludgers paradise, taxpayers hell’ on Centrelink buildings
    2. ‘Medibank is sick’ (Medibank was the government health system).
We resolved never to graffiti private property, only our property, ie. public property. Paul said he expected to be assassinated before he was forty. Later, he went to Sydney and was murdered by militant unionists at the age of 22. These are the milder parts of our practical anarchism!
  1. Getting Out of the Box – Minarchism (Limited Government)
(A Summary of Ayn Rand’s Politics)

1. Sole functions of government are police, defence and the law.

2. Maintain a strict gold standard (preventing government money- printing, deficit-

spending and fractional reserve banking.

3. No regulations, but strict accountability.

 4. Strict property rights. 5. No threats to employees or employers, so more employers to produce jobs. 6. Employers and employees are responsible for breach of contract, e.g. strikes and non-payment of wages.
  1. Contracts become important, so good reputations are vital – integrity increases.
  2. No government subsidies/handouts, so more money for businesses to produce jobs.
  3. Intellectual property rights enforced B.
  1. Over the Edge of the ‘BOX’ and Out (A/C)
    1. Private Police companies (eg. by subscriptions) would compete for fairness and efficiency. Self-defence an unpenalised option.


    Law Courts. Disputes taken to agreed court. Courts compete for perceived fairness, fees, etc. Compensation the principle, not vindictive punishment or imprisonment.

    Defence. Perhaps supported by donations from the rich, who stand to lose most from invasion. Invasion unlikely because no government means no structure of control to take over. Every person would need a soldier to control him/her.
     
     




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    2. Gold Standard. Bank issues money only on its gold reserves, otherwise it would be seen as fraud.

    3. Everything owned by people, including sectioned-off sea.

    4. Intellectual property rights not valid:

    (i) You cannot own and idea, because others can produce the same idea at the same time. Only physical items can be owned.

    (ii) Whether two ideas are really the same is often an arbitrary decision.

    (iii) What royalties is a patent worth? 2 years, 10 years, life? This is another arbitrary decision, subject to corruption.

    5. Privacy. Can be defended only on one’s own property. Otherwise, just staring at someone in the street, could be construed as a breach of privacy. On a similar note, psychological harm cannot be litigated. Self-esteem would develop to counter it.

    Conclusion

    Good reputation and self-esteem become important and will therefore tend to develop. Coercive government regulations become unnecessary.

    ARE YOU OUT OF THE BOX? B.

  2. Anarchistic Quotations
1. A liberal (American) is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money. (G. Gordon Liddy). 2. Giving money and power to government is like giving whisky and car keys to teenage boys. (P.J. O’Rourke, civil libertarian).

3. Government is the great fiction through which everyone tries to live at the expense of  everyone else. (Frederic Bastiat, French economist).

4. Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it; if it keeps moving, regulate it; if it stops moving, subsidize it.

(Ronald Reagan).
  1. No man’s life, liberty or property is safe while the legislature is in session. (Mark Twain.
6. The government is like a baby’s alimentary canal – with a happy appetite at one end  and no responsibility at the other. (Ronald Reagan).
7. The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings.

The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery. (Winston Churchill).

8. The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools. (Herbert Spencer, English philosopher).
  1. Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. (Lord Acton).
  2. Anything a government touches turns to shit. (John Lennon). B.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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Bibliography

Economics

Henry Hazlitt – Economics in One Lesson.

Paul T. Heyne – The Economic Way of Thinking.

Society

Prof. Murray Rothbard – For a New Liberty.

Prof. Ludwig von Mises – The Anti-capitalistic Mentality.

Foundation for Economic Education – Clichés of Socialism.

Conclusion

The fundamental choice is between self-regulated liberty and state and religion-controlled power. Which do you choose?
 

TONY DEAR
 

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