“Socialism is not really an option in the material world. There can be no collective ownership of anything materially scarce. One or another faction will assert control in the name of society. Inevitably, the faction will be the most powerful in society -- that is, the state. This is why all attempts to create socialism in scarce goods or services devolve into totalitarian systems of top-down planning.” GovernmentEvilPoliticsIndividualFreedomLibertyCapitalismEconomicsTradeLibertarianSocialismCommunismAnarchyIndividualismFreeFree MarketCoercionCollectivismStatismVoluntaryismMarketsLaissez FaireNon Aggression PrincipleAncapAnarcho CapitalismAustrian School Of EconomicsCollectiveAuthoritarianRegulationsVoluntaryist Author:Jeffrey Tucker
“Growing economies are built by billions of actors behaving according to their own interests, coordinated through institutions that no one in particular created. Realizing this requires humility, a trait that is in short supply among would-be dictators, politicians, and bureaucrats, which is precisely why these groups are the proven enemies of prosperity in all times and places.” GovernmentEvilForceFreedomLibertyEconomicsLibertarianSocialismCommunismControlAnarchyTheftCoercionCollectivismStateStatismVoluntaryismLaissez FaireNon Aggression PrincipleAncapAnarcho CapitalismAustrian School Of EconomicsNapInitiation Of ForceAustrian Author:Jeffrey Tucker
“There is only a certain amount of wealth in the world, this thinking goes. Economics is a matter of acquiring and allocating, not creating. This was the view of the world’s smartest people, all top philosophers and not stupid people, for many thousands of years before the age of the enlightenment. It still is.” GovernmentEvilPoliticsForceFreedomLibertyKnowledgeViolenceEconomicsLibertarianSocialismCommunismAnarchyDictatorshipTaxationTheftCoercionCollectivismStatismVoluntaryismLaissez FaireNon Aggression PrincipleAncapAnarcho CapitalismAustrian School Of EconomicsDictatorsNapInitiation Of ForceAustrian Author:Jeffrey Tucker
“The overwhelming tendency of markets is to bring people together, break down prejudices, persuade people of the need to cooperate regardless of class, race, religion, sex/gender, and physical ability. The same is obviously and especially true of sexual orientation. It is the market that rewards people who put aside their biases and seek gains through trade. This is why states devoted to racialist and hateful policies always resort to violence in control of the marketplace.” GovernmentEvilFreedomLibertyRacismLibertarianToleranceSocialismAnarchyAssociationFree MarketCoercionLawsFree TradeStatismVoluntaryismMarketsLaissez FaireAncapAnarcho CapitalismAnti RacismAustrian School Of EconomicsRegulations Author:Jeffrey Tucker
“What is a price? It is a proposed point of agreement between a buyer and seller. The proposal is the key. It is not a marching order. Past prices represent deals done in history. Current prices represent possible deals in the future. Prices embed vast information about perceived realities: resource availability, consumer demand, cultural biases and habits, speculations about the future. The price is also an amazing tool. It provides an objective basis for accounting and the assessment of profit and loss. Without prices, real prices rooted in real market experience, we’d been lost.” CapitalismEconomicsValueLibertarianAnarchyPriceVoluntaryismAncapAnarcho CapitalismAustrian School Of EconomicsAustrian Economics Author:Jeffrey Tucker
“Where there is commerce there is peace.” WarGovernmentFreedomLibertyViolenceEconomicsTradeLibertarianNationalismAnarchyFree MarketCoercionSanctionsFree TradeStatismVoluntaryismLaissez FaireNon Aggression PrincipleAncapAnarcho CapitalismAustrian School Of EconomicsProtectionismNap Author:Jeffrey Tucker
“The instant that any government obtains a monetary printing press, it becomes a deeply dishonest government, empowered to rob people by stealth. A government with the power to print money knows no limits.” GovernmentPoliticsFreedomLibertyViolenceSlaveryLibertarianSocialismAnarchyThievesTaxationFree MarketGangTheftMafiaCollectivismStatismVoluntaryismLaissez FaireNon Aggression PrincipleAncapAnarcho CapitalismSubjugationAustrian School Of EconomicsNapAustrian Economics Author:Jeffrey Tucker
“Recall that the minimum wage was initially conceived as a method to exclude undesirables from the workforce.” GovernmentForceFreedomLibertyViolenceEconomicsLibertarianSocialismAnarchyFree MarketCoercionCollectivismStatismVoluntaryismLaissez FaireInitiationNon Aggression PrincipleAncapAnarcho CapitalismAustrian School Of EconomicsNapRegulations Author:Jeffrey Tucker
“Ultimately, all arguments against markets are arguments against anarchy. Marx understood this much, at least.” GovernmentForceFreedomLibertyLibertarianCommunismAnarchyTaxationFree MarketCoercionCollectivismStateStatismVoluntaryismLaissez FaireNon Aggression PrincipleAncapAnarcho CapitalismAustrian School Of EconomicsNap Author:Jeffrey Tucker
“Commerce tends toward rewarding inclusion, broadness, and liberality. Tribal loyalties, ethnic and religious bigotries, and irrational prejudices are bad for business. The merchant class has been conventionally distrusted by tribalist leaders -- from the ancient to the modern world -- precisely because merchantcraft tends to break down barriers between groups.” GovernmentPeaceFreedomLibertyLibertarianTyrannySocialismAnarchyFree MarketCoercionCollectivismFree TradeStatismVoluntaryismLaissez FaireAnarcho CapitalismAustrian School Of Economics Author:Jeffrey Tucker
“Without anarchy, there would be chaos.” GovernmentLawOrderPoliticsFreedomLibertyEconomyOrganizationLibertarianSocialismCommunismTaxationTheftCoercionCollectivismStateStatismAncapAnarcho CapitalismAustrian School Of EconomicsPrivateFree MarketsThugsAustrian EconomicsLaissez Fairez FaireVoluntayism Author:Jeffrey Tucker
“Copyright: a system of monopoly privilege over the expression of ideas that enables government to stop consumer-friendly economic development and reward uncompetitive and legally privileged elites to fleece the public through surreptitious use of coercion.” GovernmentPoliticsForceFreedomLibertyViolenceCapitalismTradeLibertarianSocialismAggressionFreeLaw EnforcementFree MarketCoercionStateLawsStatismVoluntaryismMarketsLaissez FaireNon Aggression PrincipleAustrian School Of EconomicsInitiation Of Force Author:Jeffrey Tucker
“In the same way that central banking nearly wrecked the world and created one calamity after another, bitcoin can save the world one transaction at a time. It is time for a new beginning.” GovernmentFreedomMoneyLibertyCapitalismEconomicsLibertarianSocialismAnarchyTaxationInflationCoercionStatismVoluntaryismNational DebtAncapAnarcho CapitalismBanksAustrian School Of EconomicsAustrian Economics Author:Jeffrey Tucker
“People and institutions that refuse to admit error eventually discredit themselves.” GovernmentPoliticsRelationshipsFreedomLibertyDemocracyTrustLibertarianSocialismMistakesAnarchyBureaucracyTaxationCoercionCollectivismStateStatismRepublicansVoluntaryismLaissez FaireDemocratsAncapAnarcho CapitalismAustrian School Of EconomicsFree MarketsCentral Bank Author:Jeffrey Tucker
