“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
“No one wants their stuff stolen. No one wants their physical person harmed. If you understand the implications of those two truths, you can come to see the egregious moral and practical problems of a state-managed society.” GovernmentFreedomLibertyLibertarianAnarchyAggressionTheftStatismNon Aggression PrincipleNap Author:Jeffrey Tucker
“When the state itself is held to the same moral standards as everyone else, it dies. And that's a wonderful thing.” GovernmentFreedomLibertyViolenceTradeLibertarianSocialismAnarchyAggressionCommerceTaxationTheftMafiaCoercionStatismVoluntaryismNon Aggression PrincipleAncapAnarcho CapitalismNapFree MarketsThugs 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
“People who can't imagine order without imposition always end up favoring power over liberty.” ForceLibertyLibertarianAnarchyCoercionAnarchistStatismVoluntaryismLaissez FaireNon Aggression PrincipleFree MarketsVoluntaryist Author:Jeffrey Tucker
“Even the richest person, provided the riches comes from mutually beneficial exchange, does not need to give anything "back" to the community, because this person took nothing out of the community. Indeed, the reverse is true: Enterprises give to the community. Their owners take huge risks, and front the money for investment, precisely with the goal of serving others. Their riches are signs that they have achieved their aims.” GovernmentPoliticsFreedomBusinessCompanyLibertyViolenceCommunicationCapitalismEntrepreneurLibertarianSocialismEntrepreneurshipAnarchyTaxationFree MarketTheftMafiaCoercionCollectivismStatismParasitesVoluntaryismLaissez FaireNon Aggression PrincipleAncapAnarcho CapitalismThugs 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
