http://bradspangler.com/blog/archives/110 the bottom of the rabbit hole Wed, 17 Mar 2010 05:08:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://bradspangler.com/blog/archives/110/comment-page-1#comment-2839 Notes on Building a Theory of Revolution, Part 2 » Rational Review Sun, 18 Dec 2005 00:29:52 +0000 http://www.bradspangler.com/blog/archives/110#comment-2839 [...] Libertarian Class Theory and a proper understanding of the nature of property rights suggest other potential avenues. As I've noted before, the true state is the entire political class, the parasitic net beneficiaries of the coercive apparatus of government. One of the most often overlooked aspects of Rothbards thought is that Lockean property rights exist independently of their recognition by government and that, as a bandit gang, the state can not rightfully own anything. While corrupt government "privatization" schemes that benefit large corporations are thus seen as mere transfer of assets to a different arm of the political class, genuine privatization, or people's privatization, would consist of extra-legal and decentralized asset seizure from all parts of the political class -- cooperation in such seizure resulting not from direction by a Bolshevist vanguard party, but by an interlocking network of private arbitrators recognizing the legitimacy of the new "homesteaders" claims to the formerly unowned parcels of property. [...] [...] Libertarian Class Theory and a proper understanding of the nature of property rights suggest other potential avenues. As I’ve noted before, the true state is the entire political class, the parasitic net beneficiaries of the coercive apparatus of government. One of the most often overlooked aspects of Rothbards thought is that Lockean property rights exist independently of their recognition by government and that, as a bandit gang, the state can not rightfully own anything. While corrupt government “privatization” schemes that benefit large corporations are thus seen as mere transfer of assets to a different arm of the political class, genuine privatization, or people’s privatization, would consist of extra-legal and decentralized asset seizure from all parts of the political class — cooperation in such seizure resulting not from direction by a Bolshevist vanguard party, but by an interlocking network of private arbitrators recognizing the legitimacy of the new “homesteaders” claims to the formerly unowned parcels of property. [...]

]]> http://bradspangler.com/blog/archives/110/comment-page-1#comment-2225 BradSpangler.com » Blog Archive » French riots: What is to be done? Thu, 10 Nov 2005 00:38:47 +0000 http://www.bradspangler.com/blog/archives/110#comment-2225 [...] When we ask how to rule, we are subtly encouraging ourselves to identify with the ruling class. That works to our own detriment, in the long run, because the political class subsists upon the productive class parasiticially. To identify with the State is nothing less than another manifestation of Stockholm syndrome or the twisted loyalty of the abused to their abuser in a domestic violence situation. [...] [...] When we ask how to rule, we are subtly encouraging ourselves to identify with the ruling class. That works to our own detriment, in the long run, because the political class subsists upon the productive class parasiticially. To identify with the State is nothing less than another manifestation of Stockholm syndrome or the twisted loyalty of the abused to their abuser in a domestic violence situation. [...]

]]> http://bradspangler.com/blog/archives/110/comment-page-1#comment-996 Notes on building a theory of revolution » Rational Review Tue, 13 Sep 2005 05:20:07 +0000 http://www.bradspangler.com/blog/archives/110#comment-996 [...] A historical revolutionary period more closely resembling our own and near future circumstances is the Russian Revolution of 1917. The well-off then typically had gained possession of their wealth not through their own productive activity or voluntary exchange, as Lockean/Rothbardian natural law theory would dictate, but through alliance with the State to unjustly steal wealth from the oppressed. They were the political class. [...] [...] A historical revolutionary period more closely resembling our own and near future circumstances is the Russian Revolution of 1917. The well-off then typically had gained possession of their wealth not through their own productive activity or voluntary exchange, as Lockean/Rothbardian natural law theory would dictate, but through alliance with the State to unjustly steal wealth from the oppressed. They were the political class. [...]

]]> http://bradspangler.com/blog/archives/110/comment-page-1#comment-39 Chemical_Ali Sun, 12 Jun 2005 00:11:38 +0000 http://www.bradspangler.com/blog/archives/110#comment-39 Hey Brad! Don't worry if they call you a commie. The true is what it is. Anyhow here is my reply to you and Tomkins. More later. http://alisvoice.blogspot.com/2005/06/reply-to-brad-spangler.html Hey Brad!
Don’t worry if they call you a commie. The true is what it is. Anyhow here is my reply to you and Tomkins. More later.
http://alisvoice.blogspot.com/2005/06/reply-to-brad-spangler.html

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