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Why is criticism levied toward the state immediately viewed as absurd?

Why is the state seen as necessary and implicit aspect of human life?

Why do people see the monopolization of force or economic intervention as moral?

I prefer syndacalist-fascism.

Originally posted by Blakemore
I prefer syndacalist-fascism.

I sense this is sarcastic, if so ive never heard this combo so good job on that.

If serious, I'd like to hear more.

It was sarcasm XD

I imagine if it was a thing it would be something along the lines of "kill all humans"

Originally posted by Blakemore
It was sarcasm XD

I imagine if it was a thing it would be something along the lines of "kill all humans"

From what i understand, fascism, communism, and syndicalism have more in common than they dont.

I keep thinking about fully automated luxuary space gay communism.

Originally posted by ilikecomics
From what i understand, fascism, communism, and syndicalism have more in common than they dont.

I keep thinking about fully automated luxuary space gay communism. Yeah, I never liked radicalism. That's why I tend towards the centre with a favourable preference towards social liberties. It looks like I'm somewhere along the libertarian, technocratic, georgism, nordic model area of the spectrum.

Technology, good. Looking after the environment, good. Not infringing others who don't hurt others, good. Free market, good. Taxes, mostly bad, but necessary. Tax those who abuse their power when it comes to harming others. Tax should be a fine in that if someone is a dick they should get taxed more.

Anything libetarian borders on the far right.

Originally posted by ilikecomics
Why is criticism levied toward the state immediately viewed as absurd?

Why is the state seen as necessary and implicit aspect of human life?

Why do people see the monopolization of force or economic intervention as moral?

1. It isn't

2. Because "the state" is the only thing keeping most people law abiding. See Haiti, Somalia, Yemen, Syria, Afghanistan, Liberia etc to see what happens when a state fails.

3. Because without economic intervention to some degree you end up with the East India Company, United Fruit Company, DuPont, Monsanto and how many other corporations doing whatever they want without consequence.

Originally posted by jaden_2.0
1. It isn't

2. Because "the state" is the only thing keeping most people law abiding. See Haiti, Somalia, Yemen, Syria, Afghanistan, Liberia etc to see what happens when a state fails.

3. Because without economic intervention to some degree you end up with the East India Company, United Fruit Company, DuPont, Monsanto and how many other corporations doing whatever they want without consequence. Very good post have you ever seen the pictorial East zinnia company coffee table book. It is amazing. I miss coffee table books.

Originally posted by Blakemore
It was sarcasm XD

I imagine if it was a thing it would be something along the lines of "kill all humans"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascist_syndicalism

Originally posted by Surtur
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascist_syndicalism Dayum

Originally posted by Blakemore
Yeah, I never liked radicalism. That's why I tend towards the centre with a favourable preference towards social liberties. It looks like I'm somewhere along the libertarian, technocratic, georgism, nordic model area of the spectrum.

Technology, good. Looking after the environment, good. Not infringing others who don't hurt others, good. Free market, good. Taxes, mostly bad, but necessary. Tax those who abuse their power when it comes to harming others. Tax should be a fine in that if someone is a dick they should get taxed more.


Just finished a book by albert jay nock. He identified as a georgist, which is pretty much constitutionalism, without all the merchant tampering, with a single flat tax or something like that.

We're more similar than dissimilar.

Originally posted by jaden_2.0
1. It isn't

2. Because "the state" is the only thing keeping most people law abiding. See Haiti, Somalia, Yemen, Syria, Afghanistan, Liberia etc to see what happens when a state fails.

3. Because without economic intervention to some degree you end up with the East India Company, United Fruit Company, DuPont, Monsanto and how many other corporations doing whatever they want without consequence.

1.) in my experience it is. Im not talking about criticism levied at a particular individual, party, or group. Im talking about Criticizing the entire state apparatus.

2.) this same line of reasoning was used to prop up the church before the creation of the state.

It's pretty much like saying "those people are dogs and need a ready hand with a strong switch. "

I dont believe that.

3.) you listed companies with incestuous relationships with the state.

A company, without state interference, cant just go around and do anything it wants. It has to provide customers with value otherwise the customers dont pay and the company fails. However companies assisted by bail outs, protectionism, sanctions on other countries with a similar product, destroying goods to create false scarcity etc. Can do whatever they want because they're longevity isnt based on providing value.


If a company does something for the cheapest, safest, most efficient way then i see no reason it shouldnt be a monopoly.

Originally posted by Old Man Whirly!
Anything libetarian borders on the far right.


What does far right mean to you? Hint it has nothing to do with the military or race.

Originally posted by Blakemore
Yeah, I never liked radicalism. That's why I tend towards the centre with a favourable preference towards social liberties. It looks like I'm somewhere along the libertarian, technocratic, georgism, nordic model area of the spectrum.

Technology, good. Looking after the environment, good. Not infringing others who don't hurt others, good. Free market, good. Taxes, mostly bad, but necessary. Tax those who abuse their power when it comes to harming others. Tax should be a fine in that if someone is a dick they should get taxed more.


Also i agree with you on everything except taxation.

If i rob an old lady then use that money to start an orphanage, is that moral? My answer is no, pro tax people may say yes.

It's the difference between consequentialism and deontology.

I think the political compass is really confusing to people because it's a graph. I always tell people you can simplify it by taking the two lines and making them one.

The statist/ararchism line, from my eye, is the same measurement as the left to right axis measuring economic intervention by the state.

How can a man be free if the state tells him how to spend his dollar?

Originally posted by ilikecomics
1.) in my experience it is. Im not talking about criticism levied at a particular individual, party, or group. Im talking about Criticizing the entire state apparatus.

2.) this same line of reasoning was used to prop up the church before the creation of the state.

It's pretty much like saying "those people are dogs and need a ready hand with a strong switch. "

I dont believe that.

3.) you listed companies with incestuous relationships with the state.

A company, without state interference, cant just go around and do anything it wants. It has to provide customers with value otherwise the customers dont pay and the company fails. However companies assisted by bail outs, protectionism, sanctions on other countries with a similar product, destroying goods to create false scarcity etc. Can do whatever they want because they're longevity isnt based on providing value.


If a company does something for the cheapest, safest, most efficient way then i see no reason it shouldnt be a monopoly.

1. It's not the the criticism of the state that's considered absurd. It's the lack of proffering an alternative to provide basic services essential to the functioning of a cohesive society that is.

2. The church never really performed that role because of feudalism. Which is why even strongly religious countries don't remain stable after the state collapses and resort to being fractured by rival warlords.

3. Companies regularly do whatever they want until their actions are eventually challenged by public pressure for regulation. How many companies simply dumped waste into the environment regardless of their effects until forced to stop? They did this because there was no connection between those unethical actions and the service to the customer. Hence you end up with big, popular brands like Nestle and Coca Cola engaging in highly unethical practices in localised areas that don't impact their global reputation and thus profits. Without state intervention in these actions do you believe they'd stop of their own accord?
Historically you're spoiled for examples. Phossy Jaw, Radium Girls, Breaker Boys, blood diamonds. All examples of companies engaging in unethical practices until forced by state intervention to stop.

All you really need to do is have a look at the list of US superfund sites to see what companies have done.

Originally posted by ilikecomics
Also i agree with you on everything except taxation.

If i rob an old lady then use that money to start an orphanage, is that moral? My answer is no, pro tax people may say yes.

It's the difference between consequentialism and deontology. Tax is not robbery though.

Originally posted by jaden_2.0
1. It's not the the criticism of the state that's considered absurd. It's the lack of proffering an alternative to provide basic services essential to the functioning of a cohesive society that is.

2. The church never really performed that role because of feudalism. Which is why even strongly religious countries don't remain stable after the state collapses and resort to being fractured by rival warlords.

3. Companies regularly do whatever they want until their actions are eventually challenged by public pressure for regulation. How many companies simply dumped waste into the environment regardless of their effects until forced to stop? They did this because there was no connection between those unethical actions and the service to the customer. Hence you end up with big, popular brands like Nestle and Coca Cola engaging in highly unethical practices in localised areas that don't impact their global reputation and thus profits. Without state intervention in these actions do you believe they'd stop of their own accord?
Historically you're spoiled for examples. Phossy Jaw, Radium Girls, Breaker Boys, blood diamonds. All examples of companies engaging in unethical practices until forced by state intervention to stop.

All you really need to do is have a look at the list of US superfund sites to see what companies have done.


1.) i disagree, the thing that would replace the state (something only favorable to small groups of people) is the free market (availible to all, bringing prosperity to all.)

Imagine if America actually acted as a republic, meaning the abolition of centralized power ala the federal government.
This would lead each state to create it's own government (something very different from a state.)

So if one lived in florida and found the way floridians governed florida to be unfavorable, one could vote with one's feet and live in a more favorable jurisdiction.

This form of pluralism would allow each state to develop social institutions, based on the needs of the group, through individualism and contractualism. Some places may set up churches, others charities, some mega monster truck derbys, the possibilities are endless.

This mosaic of social institutions would further fill the gap left by the deletion of the fed. Gov.

Furthermore your line of thinking assumes the state is a natural and necessary extension of the human experience and i adamantly disagree. For example social safety nets created and maintained through the state hemorrhage money like uou wouldnt believe. The alternative to state ran social safety nets are charities, philanthropies, non profits etc.
These groups are extremely wise with their money because they receive money through private donations. People who give private donations to look into how that money is spent vs. being taxed for social safety nets, thus the privately funded groups have a higher incentive to be fiscally efficient, other wise the donations would stop.

With that said, you tell me why, if i want to give my dollar to a homeless man, i need a middle man (the state) to be given the dollar first, take their cut, then pass on the scraps to the homeless man.



2.) the church, without a doubt, had a monopoly of power at one time or another. When nietzsche said god is dead, he meant belief in god. Without belief in god the need for church to have a monopoly of power fades, leaving a vacuum to be filled with civic religions (communism, fascism, constitutionalism, social justice warriors etc.)
That vacuum couldn't have been filled if the church never left it.
Another way to look at this is to ask yourself why every great thinker used to be a monk or a cleric, that's because the church had the power at that time, not the state.

Im open to more specific evidence tho because you do seem to be very informed.


3. https://mises.org/wire/corporate-social-responsibility-only-strengthens-corporate-power-over-public


https://mises.org/wire/socialism-greatest-threat-environment

https://mises.org/wire/corporations-cant-oppress-us-without-states-help


I think if you read these 3 articles you will see where im coming from, you dont have agree once there.

I cant explain it as well as the writers and i believe dispelling the misconception that corporations can be destructive without the aid of the state.



I also want to say thank you for your post. It was thorough

Originally posted by Blakemore
Tax is not robbery though.


Taxation is the only form of debt that ends in imprisonment.
If you resist the attempt to inprison you your life will be in mortal danger.
Therefore, taxation is propped up via the monopolization of the state.
What this means is a cop can come arrest me for tax evasion, shoot and kill me if i resist, and face zero repercussions. Meanwhile if i evade taxes, cop comes to my house, i defend against that and kill him. This would result in me going to jail for 2nd degree murder, perhaps 1st, and killing a cop, not to mention what else would get tacked on.

The only thing you got right was you would go to prison if you shot a cop.

Originally posted by Blakemore
The only thing you got right was you would go to prison if you shot a cop.

... Why was wesley snipes arrested and sent to jail?

https://mises.org/library/taxation-robbery

https://i.redd.it/97cyg3mne2f21.png I'm literally in the "doesn't give a **** about anything area"

@jaden2.0

For whatever reason the quote button isnt working.

So im going to attempt to shift gears, because im on my phone and cant keep flipping between your post and what im typing.

You make cogent points and are perhaps a better debater than me.

However, im less interested in debating than i am in becoming effective at spreading these ideas to minds that will value them.

Tax havens = this is, for me, further evidence that the state is anti business. Businesses wouldn't need tax havens if they werent charges taxs.
I agree that predatory capitalism is the default (i think this because people want to do the most with the least amount of work for the highest amount of profit.)
However, once a business acts in an unethical or inefficient manner profits would stop coming in in a free market.
Under the state these businesses persist in the form of something like a bailout, or via sneakier measures ala raising the fed minimum wage so that smaller companies cant afford to pay their people (think walmart paying everyone 12 a hour vs. A small business)

So from my pov any business that fails is a good thing because the resources are redistributed to others who can use then without failing.


Here is the primary evolution of thought that occured for me, tell me where we differ and how and why we differ (if you feel like it, of course).

So for me i started out as a commie, but without calling myself that. I thought the gov. should fix any and every problem.
Then i started to read the classical liberals like locke, jefferson, paine etc., which made me pivot to classical liberalism.
From there libertarian only made sense, which is actually what von mises meant by liberal but the term was stolen and it's meaning mutated. Libertarians typically support a night watchmen state or make the distinction between a state and a gov.
From there i thought, if i earnestly believe that anything the state does is inefficient, mostly immoral, sometimes ineffectual then why the hell would i think they wouldnt fumble national defense.
This lead to my discovery of murray rothbard, the most radical dude to ever live.
He shows quite clearly, and with good humor, why the state in it's entirety is not only superfluous, but totally deleterious.


Again i cant explain any of these ideas half as well as actual an caps, but the central argument makes sense to me in a way other systems of organization do not.

@blake be careful


https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/07/190717105335.htm

Originally posted by ilikecomics
@blake be careful


https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/07/190717105335.htm

Lol. Does that include Trump?

Originally posted by ilikecomics
@jaden2.0

For whatever reason the quote button isnt working.

So im going to attempt to shift gears, because im on my phone and cant keep flipping between your post and what im typing.

You make cogent points and are perhaps a better debater than me.

However, im less interested in debating than i am in becoming effective at spreading these ideas to minds that will value them.

Tax havens = this is, for me, further evidence that the state is anti business. Businesses wouldn't need tax havens if they werent charges taxs.
I agree that predatory capitalism is the default (i think this because people want to do the most with the least amount of work for the highest amount of profit.)
However, once a business acts in an unethical or inefficient manner profits would stop coming in in a free market.
Under the state these businesses persist in the form of something like a bailout, or via sneakier measures ala raising the fed minimum wage so that smaller companies cant afford to pay their people (think walmart paying everyone 12 a hour vs. A small business)

So from my pov any business that fails is a good thing because the resources are redistributed to others who can use then without failing.


Here is the primary evolution of thought that occured for me, tell me where we differ and how and why we differ (if you feel like it, of course).

So for me i started out as a commie, but without calling myself that. I thought the gov. should fix any and every problem.
Then i started to read the classical liberals like locke, jefferson, paine etc., which made me pivot to classical liberalism.
From there libertarian only made sense, which is actually what von mises meant by liberal but the term was stolen and it's meaning mutated. Libertarians typically support a night watchmen state or make the distinction between a state and a gov.
From there i thought, if i earnestly believe that anything the state does is inefficient, mostly immoral, sometimes ineffectual then why the hell would i think they wouldnt fumble national defense.
This lead to my discovery of murray rothbard, the most radical dude to ever live.
He shows quite clearly, and with good humor, why the state in it's entirety is not only superfluous, but totally deleterious.


Again i cant explain any of these ideas half as well as actual an caps, but the central argument makes sense to me in a way other systems of organization do not.

Think it's because the quote button doesn't like apostrophes.

It's been a great discussion. Not many of them happen here anymore these days. 👍

Originally posted by jaden_2.0
Think it's because the quote button doesn't like apostrophes.

It's been a great discussion. Not many of them happen here anymore these days. 👍

I think youre right because it quoted perfect.

I agree, i appreciate your time. I thought about what you said for a full day and kept going back over it to see if i could come up with anything better.

Youre a heavy weight

Originally posted by Blakemore
Lol. Does that include Trump?

His shoulders may have gotten so large from shrugging.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Rothbard

Originally posted by ilikecomics
His shoulders may have gotten so large from shrugging. .......makes sense.....I think.

Originally posted by Blakemore
.......makes sense.....I think.

Sometimes i think if he were green instead of orange he would look like the old school version of Frankenstein.

...i went to see if i could find a frankenmoji, but got distracted when i saw this bad boy...

tomcat

lol

https://mises.org/library/anatomy-state

https://mises.org/library/what-capitalism-really-means

Originally posted by Old Man Whirly!
Anything libetarian borders on the far right.

Libertarians support open borders, abolishing/defunding the police.

Just like alt righters do.

Originally posted by Klaw
Libertarians support open borders, abolishing/defunding the police.

Just like alt righters do.

I would only support open borders if the welfare state went away. Getting on government bennys in the U.S. puts the recipient in the top 20 percent of earners in the world.

I support defunding the state in it's entirety, this would logically include the police and the military.

With my stipulation relating to welfare and immigration, what do you find wrong ?

Why is defunding the police unfavorable in your opinion ?

Originally posted by ilikecomics
I would only support open borders if the welfare state went away. Getting on government bennys in the U.S. puts the recipient in the top 20 percent of earners in the world.

I support defunding the state in it's entirety, this would logically include the police and the military.

With my stipulation relating to welfare and immigration, what do you find wrong ?

Why is defunding the police unfavorable in your opinion ?

I'm against a massive police state myself.

I'm against open borders.

I'm okay with defunding the police if it doesn't endanger people.

Originally posted by Klaw
I'm against a massive police state myself.

I'm against open borders.

I'm okay with defunding the police if it doesn't endanger people.

cool on your take on the police state.

As of now, open borders-even porous borders- would be a massive mistake.

The answer, from an anarcho capitalist perspective, is competing private security agencies.

Think of how bars have bouncers, malls have security, housing associations have security booths at the front, celebrities have security details. Not to mention the vast selection of incredible surveillance and security technology available to the public.The difference between the private class of security professionals and state sanctioned flying monkeys is that the private security professionals would be prosecuted the same way any other citizen would be.
This means they have a self motivated interest in using non lethal methods. Think jujitsu vs. blasting 40 holes in someone, like cops who then get asymmetrical punishment because that pesky thin blue line.

Similar to the honor among thieves seen in the catholic church surrounding pederasty.

https://mises.org/wire/history-and-structure-federal-reserve-system

https://youtu.be/S4O0WvGSZN0