Friday, August 06, 2010
You Might Be One
If you favor free world trade and oppose world government and the American Empire, you might be an anarchist.
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Proudly delegitimizing the state since 2005
"Aye, free! Free as a tethered ass!" —W.S. Gilbert
"All the affairs of men should be managed by individuals or voluntary associations, and . . . the State should be abolished." —Benjamin Tucker
"You must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself." —James Madison
"Fat chance." —Sheldon Richman
—Henry David Thoreau
"Free association . . . the only true form of society."
—Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
3 comments:
Why, Sheldon—I think you've helped me to reach a new level of self-understanding.
Unavoidably, your comment makes me think of this:
http://www.bad-press.net/Bad_Press/broadsides_files/bad%20press%20%233.pdf
Good piece, Gary. Thanks. There are many good criticisms to be made of WTO, but loss of sovereignty isn't one of them. It should be pointed out that "we" use trade agreements to force IP laws on the developing world. That is a bad thing, of course.
Completely agreed, Sheldon.
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