Even when physically in the US, I am often surrounded by an awful lot of non-Americans. Granted, I don't get out much. I work from home and when I do leave the house it's usually to pick up groceries or go to the gym. The people in my tiny social circle just happen to be from other countries. Last night I went to hang out with a trio of Dutch sisters at the home of one of the sisters and her Russian husband. One of the other sisters asked me to explain the difference between Republicans and Democrats to her young Russian brother-in-law.
"Easy. Fascists and communists," I said. "Republicans are fascists and Democrats are communists." This my Russian friend grasped immediately. What can I say? I have a knack for pithy explanations.
That succint description got me a bit of the stink eye from the sisters who'd spent most of their lives in the States and who were staunchly Democrat, as fits their nanny state roots in Dutch-Land. But none of them could offer any real argument because the description is thoroughly accurate. The Democrats want a kinder version of communism than the mean, ol' murderous kind as practiced under Stalin. The Republicans want a lot of the same things the Italian and German fascists wanted: national unity, a closed border, ethnic purity, foreign conquest and a governmnet heavily involved in the economy via regulation as opposed to outright ownership (because outright ownership of the means of production would be disgustingly socialist or communist, naturally).
In any case, we were all gathered last night to play Risk. I'd only played the game once and that was several years ago with a bunch of young lawyers. It's not exactly the kind of game that appeals to an anarchist. The entire goal, after all, is military domination of the globe. You're essentially pretending to be Genghis, Napoleon, Adolph or Obama. Where's the dignity in that? Yet I did find myself getting emotionally invested in the game. I told myself that mine was an anarcho-capitalist force intent on smashing governments around the world and freeing all of humanity.
But in truth, military-style resistance (or conquest) is not the way to bring peace and liberty to the world. Violence is the handmaiden of the state, not of the anarchists who want the state and its violence to go away. We're not going to beat the pestilence of statism with bullets. We're going to have to rely on the market's means: persuasion. And we're going to have to be patient. And when I say "be patient", I mean don't expect to see liberty thriving anywhere on this globe in your lifetime unless life extension science makes some serious advances.
Regards
Gary Gibson
Editor, The Dollar Vigilante
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Another week, another silly scandal to distract the sheeple. CIA head General David Petraeus had an affair with his biographer, and now the USSA is blinded by the nonsense "news". Good thing you came by TDV.
Here’s what we wrote about this week:
MONDAY, November 12
No More Excuses: It Is Time to Fish or Cut Bair
With the election only a week behind us, Jim Karger explains why now is the time to commit to an expat life and argues for Mexico as a destination.
“If you decide now is the time to get out of Dodge, have a little money, some transferable skills and a lot of imagination, there are places in the world you can live that don't invade your privacy with impunity, that won't threaten you with prison for the slightest infraction of the rules, where it is not assumed you are a criminal with something to hide.
"Mexico is one of those places.”
TUESDAY, November 13
Wendy McElroy on governments coming for your pensions.
“How long will starving governments keep their itchy fingers off your private pension funds? Only as long as they can't get away with it. And governments are literally getting away with murder these days. Why not your pension money, too?
"It happened in Argentina, Hungary, Ireland, and France. Here's how it will happen in America. After another financial crisis, Congress will ‘protect’ you by requiring managed retirement plans to include X percent of Treasury bonds at a return well below inflation.”
WEDNESDAY, November 14
Do You Need Institutional “Weapons” to Defend Against Wealthy Capitalists
TDV Senior Analyst Ed Bugos argues for a truly free market.
“Perhaps socialists like to frame a voluntary society in the sense of the feudal system because to them that is an example of society in history without government. While monarchs existed, society under feudalist society had not yet evolved into the consolidated absolutism of the 16th and 17th centuries, to which it gave rise. But the fact is that it was a system of very unequal rights and privileges. The natural law philosophers had not yet developed the rights of man in the Lockean sense –which essentially is that all men are presumed equal before the law…i.e. none of them should have privileges or ‘authority’ over others (i.e. the source of the ‘nightwatchman state’).”
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15
TDV contributor Alexander Jousse looks beyond its Nobel Peace Prize at the inherent flaws of the EU.
“While Europe is very liberal about public nudity and mixed naked saunas, it does not tolerate the questioning of the current zeitgeist. Most Europeans are very proud of their slavery and piously pontificate on the superiority of their communist federation. The current riots across Europe are not against communism, but about who gets the money; the current oligarchy or the proletariat.”
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16
Feedback Friday – November 16, 2012
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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17
The Weekend Vigilante November 17th, 2012
Jeff Berwick checks in " somewhere halfway between Santiago, Chile and Lima, Peru” and discusses gadgetry, American idiocy, healthcare, and more.
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