Slavery never left: they just call it democracy now. There's no way any private criminals could ever hope to attain the amount of wealth expropriation and exploitation that the State does. They're able

Only socialists are clamoring for egalitarianism. I recognize inequality will prevail without the State; and that the State can't achieve it anyway. And no anarchist is Utopian. Again, that's the view

The State is not "us", and your lack of consideration for this fact that it's patently coercive is not worthy of response. Not interested in your argument from history that since States (and

I have not, but may take your suggestion. Thanks! These are more my suspicions, so thanks for some confirmation.

Voluntarily exchanging labor for money is not the exploitation that is the expropriation of taxation. Stop reading Marx.

Socialism also achieves its end of ending property rights through other means than outright nationalization, seeing the failures of Communism, namely that of taxation and regulation and legislation. The

One cannot be an anarchist and cite Marxists.org

That's just a bad utilitarian argument for theft. The point is, and the case against the State is, that there is no means of measuring interpersonal utility; our preferences are ranked ordinally and not

Thanks for the read and your comment. It could certainly happen at anytime that the public becomes swayed, but I'm just about as hopeful as Mencken is that it will.

I appreciate the comment. It's always helpful that we back up each other, too.

Great comment. Thank you.

Your feedback. it fuels.

This is a great read already. Never saw this one. Thanks for the recommendation and the read! I appreciate it.

I really appreciate the feedback.

Scarcity can never be eliminated; the goal of economic production is to alleviate scarcity. It is of course possible to have something in greater abundance than previously possible, but this doesn't make

"Anarcho"-communists are not voluntaryists though; they're no anarchists in our conception of non-aggression. Perhaps they may more-easily be convinced of our ideas, but it seems more likely

That's great. Not to be forgotten is the American tax-resister Irwin Schiff who was imprisoned, and left to die there, for promoting his book on why you don't have to pay taxes.