False Premise of Collectivism

1. In the world at large, good seems to be more organized and more in control than evil simply because the popular notion of good is on the surface of the social structure. "Good intentions," greed, and ignorance determine the destiny of nations because they determine collective action. Human nature cannot be changed, but social action can be. Only mass education can accomplish this.

2. Evil operates on the "I only" principle. Good operates on the "I, but also you" principle. Collectivism is evil and is based upon the "I only" principle disguised as the "We" principle and the "We" is always coercive.

3. The only workable first premise in any society is that of absolute individual liberty. All else must be subordinated to this or the society will slowly degenerate or remain degenerate if it is already. The only truly free and workable system known to man is a Libertarian society with an Capitalist economy.

4. All forms of collectivism are contrary to the laws of evolution and the laws of market. All lasting prosperity and progress that has ever been achieved has been due to the extent to which the society involved has been free. All failure and stagnation have been due to collectivist control of some kind.

5. Lurking at the heart of most false ideas which find popular acceptance is the irony that, in the smaller view of things or in the very short term, they are often "true" ideas.

The Myth of Left and Right

1. "We will produce a new generation of change, and a lot of change for a new generation. We will generate change, and we will change a generation" babbles the golden-boy collectivist candidate inanely.

"All this 'gridlock' stuff is horse manure. Both left and right are serving the bankers. Neither side is advocating a return to a precious metal standard. When I was a kid, anyone with a sixth grade education knew that a metal backed currency is necessary to a stable economy. When in Hell are we going to move against these God-damned traitors?" asks Dirk the Sun Warrior as he eagerly fondles a hangman's noose.

2. The only difference between "Socialist" and "Fascist," between "left" and "right," are their respective preferences for collectivist interference in what would otherwise be a naturally ordered and workable society. The term Democracy today has become a mere euphemism for the shared, but endlessly embattled, alternating dictatorship of left and right wing thugs in business suits.

3. In a collectivist society, left and right produce the "see-saw effect." First the left pulls the country down, while the right goes up in public opinion. Then the right pulls the country down while the left goes up in public opinion. Let us observe that the only thing which goes up is public opinion in the short term. The only thing which goes down is the country over the long term. Some have called this the "Decline of Western Civilization." The rate of this decline is accelerating rapidly.

4. Among the general populace, left and right in essence want government henchmen with guns to enforce unjust advantage in their behalf. A Libertarian is simply what any reasonably intelligent left or right wing individual might aspire to be with more education and higher moral development.

5. The fundamental reason most people will support a collectivist government is that they believe it will benefit them individually more than a truly free society. This is always at the expense of others. There is however, the sometimes just idea about getting even financially for past exploitation. If we go Libertarian right now, it is reasoned, money owed from the past won't get paid back, so we have to have a little more of the opposite brand of collectivism to balance accounts. Then it has to go the other way, and then back again. This is another aspect of the "see-saw effect." If cognizant of the long term bad effect of collectivist policies upon even themselves, most people would not support such a system. Education can accomplish Libertarian goals without a complete moral remake of society. Those who have been unduly victimized thus far will ultimately be compensated much more completely, and in an ongoing way, by the advantages of a stable economy.
6. The fact that most who favor economic liberty want civil slavery, and vice versa, shows us that a person's politics are usually a product of emotion, not of logic. Economic and civil liberty are not mutually exclusive, but actually work best in conjunction with each another. When people begin to think clearly, rather than just reacting immorally to the equally immoral reactions of their adversaries, then a true ongoing liberty will be able to flourish, rather than merely a short term partisan illusion of liberty.

Who Determines Values?

1. Candidates for public office will often try to obscure the real issues by saying things which are admirable and true, but which somehow do not quite ring true coming from their lips.

"All of this 'family values' bullshit makes me sick to my stomach. These parasites don't care about families. They have caused and financed both sides of every war in the past two hundred years" observes Dirk the Sun Warrior as he inspects a big family size bag of quicklime at the local hardware store.

2. A lot of high sounding talk about the importance of family values, although perfectly true, is somehow particularly offensive, and does seem to be pushing luck a bit, coming the worst enemies that families have ever known - mere traitors who have served the interests of those responsible for the destruction of more families than anyone else in all of human history.

3. It is not the business of government to instill values in the individual citizen, except a deep and abiding knowledge relative to the natural workability of absolute individual liberty, and that preferably only by example.

Equality Under Law

1. It is not a legitimate function of government to provide a livelihood for the citizens. The equal chance to succeed guaranteed in a free society should not be confused with the equal "success" guaranteed in some measure by a collectivist society. The former works in the long term, the latter does not. Government is not supposed to "help" people, but to create and preserve an environment within which people can help themselves.

2. Government never generates new wealth, although it almost always coerces wealth away from those who do. It is never a provider of anything, it's victims are. When "benefits" are gained, liberty is lost. Whatever is subsidized by government will eventually be controlled or regulated by it. Government is at best a necessary evil and the less of it we have, the better. The primary goal of World Libertarian Revolution is simply to privatize as many activities as possible which are now allocated to government.

3. There is absolutely nothing which is immoral for an individual to do, which is not equally or more immoral for government to do. This includes theft and extortion. Government policy is supposed to reflect the calm deliberation of many minds, not dishonesty numerically multiplied behind the shield of unaccountability afforded by power.

4. In today's climate of moral decay, election to political office does not require promising the people a country in which they can have the freedom to work and keep what they earn as it once did. It requires promising to give them what someone else earns. Today if people give their vote they want something "concrete" in return. This is euphemistically called "politics." For a person to give someone a vote on the promise that he will enlist government thugs to coerce money from others, is no different than if the voter were to coerce the money himself. For a person to use his vote to steal, renders him morally no better than the man who would come through a second story window at three o'clock in the morning with a crowbar and a gunny sack, except that the man with the crowbar has more courage, self-knowledge, and personal integrity.

5. Just because an individual feels that the poor "can't help" the way they are, doesn't give him the moral right to use a voting booth to allocate the resources of another to his dream of the way the world "should" be. Observe that the Socialist "loves" everyone, but advocates what seems best for himself in the short term. The Libertarian loves mainly those near and dear, but advocates what is workable for all in the long term.

6. If two men are equal, and one by his own efforts "betters" himself, then he becomes "better" than the other man who did nothing, unless there are in this instance, two meanings for the word "better." Equality under law should not be confused with equality of individual human viability. Although all men must receive equal, fair, and impartial treatment under law, it is not government's job to cheat nature or to eliminate the deserved consequences of bad moral character.

7. The single most detrimental assumption which is commonly held by humankind today is that all men are "entitled" to be well fed, regardless of what they do or do not do individually to bring about this condition, and regardless of the detrimental effect upon those who are victimized in their behalf. Augmenting this myth is the idea that it is somehow desirable, obligatory, or moral for productive individuals to provide for ever increasing numbers of unproductive individuals. This in turn, has everywhere led to the further assumption that people have the right to collectively coerce the productive individual in order to bring about this utopian "equality." Such ideas have inevitably led to increasingly unstable war and welfare based economies everywhere.

8. If a person is not being supported financially by others, he is not being kept down. If he objects to such non-support, he is seeking to be kept up. Let there be no institutional theft, so that anyone can be kept at the expense of another, and let those who try to gain unjustly what is not theirs be kept neither down, nor up, but simply apart, from those whose behavior has survival value in a free society.