Sup /wsr/, I'd like to get some recommendations for Ancap/Libertarian reading listToday I tried to read the "Anatomy of the State" and realized that I've pretty much heard all the book's talking points elsewhere, so please something that isn't as "basic"from what I recall I've read>Anatomy of the State (duh)>first half of Human Action (I have no idea why I dropped it AFTER the dry-as-fuck first part of the book)>For a New Liberty>Democracy: A God That Failed>some >Ayn Rand essays>some random essays from mises.org (like the Not so Wild Wild West and Nations by Consent, although the list does include less popular works I don't recall) >No Treason>Getting Libertarianism Right>maybe other works? I don't remember
>>1575662>tried to read*completely readit's pretty short desu
>>1575662The Machinery of Freedom by David Friedman comes at things from a slightly different angleGovernment Without Taxes by Donald Kirchinger, although I would say he's actually a Georgist in denial and advocates Land Value TaxAnarchy, State, and Utopia by Robert Nozick
>>1575666>Friedman>NozickI've heard of them as being in the minarchist / "lowercase libertarian" club. Any idea what kind of value they might have in their writings?>although I would say he's actually a Georgist in denial and advocates Land Value Taxdesu I'm actually interested in "Georgist libertarians", as they are at least "honest" with taxation being le bad
>>1575662>I'd like to get some recommendations for Ancap/Libertarian reading listThis site has some recommended books and journals and research articles woth reading. The website itself also has its own long articles:https://www.amren.com/
>>1575676>https://www.amren.com/looks like a generic "right" organization desu
>>1575702In 2024, the formal Libertarian Party was a leftist controlled organization. It's candidate for president was a gay liberal. So of course any of the traditional libertarian values were to the right of that party's official candidates.
>>1575704>Libertarian PartyAnon, who even gives a shit about a systemic failure like LP? mises.org doesn't look like a generic "right"-wing website compared to the one you posted
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>>1575720Was going to mention Spooner. Ought to pick up Orwell's 1984 tooLiberalism came out of rebooted power of the wealthy merchant over the aristocracy and monarchy. It had been doing so for centuries but in small fits and never to the degree of challenging royalty. It was at the center of the Venetian empire, their doge being a doddering old figurehead never did anything of note, it was all directed the by the oligarchs.And that's it. Governance by money alone leads to oligarchy. Even a strict anarcho-capitalism will lead to a contractual dominion that is just a small state for a wealthy man. Not liberty for all but liberty for the wealthy. Which we already have. Study it all you like, the conclusion will come back to the state and the state we're in now.
>>1575720>The Myth of Rational Voter after The God That Failedwhy?
>>1575731>Ought to pick up Orwell's 1984 toois it really Libertarian or just anti-statist?t. read it years ago in school
>>1575734It is often cited as being anti-commie or anti-fascist, or just broadly anti-authoritarian, but those in power over Oceania, Eurasia and Eastasia are the local oligarchs For the bipolar world of the "Cold War" we had Oceania vs a part of Eurasia. After the Berlin wall came down it was the unipolar world of just Oceania, but now BRICS may just see a shaky alliance between parts of Eurasia and Eastasia to defeat Oceania. The multipolar world isn't any better and it will be a continuation of oligarchy, called the "Epstein class" to remind one of their depravity.The seesaw of state power vs. capital power is a false dichotomy as nether can exist without the other. It's all been one path the slave is driven down. The master behind him telling him there is no other path.
>>1575735>БPИИИИИИИИИИКC>БИПOЛЯPHOOOOOOOOOCTЬanon, what the fuck are you talking about?
>>1575736History played out grafted over Orwell's 1984.Outside the scope of the book request at this point, but I think people can glean truths from good literature.
>>1575662Larken Rose is very underrated and he went to jail for tax evasion so you know he's legit.
What authors other than Ayn Rand insist on the import of the ethics of Egoism to the creed?I'm an Egoist first and a Libertarian second.
>>1575795>What authors other than Ayn Rand insist on the import of the ethics of Egoism to the creed?none, because that's retardeda truly free society must be of high trust, having ethics code of "no altruism" leads to a low-trust society that eventually gets dominated by the state power
>>1575795The lack of ethics you mean.Rand is about buying allies and lackies. Stirner's "union of egoists" don't stipulate this. Just come around to the idea that Stirner was trying to be as mirthful as encouraging people to stand up for themselves.
>>1575806Untrue, Striner is inferior to Rand even qua Egoist
>>1575805>no altruismI can tell you think Altruism means "benevolence".Untrue. Altruism is a proposed *means* of achieving benevolence. A wrong and malevolent one.'Libertarians' expose their philosophic default when they don't uphold the ethics of Egosim, and explicitly against the ethics of Altruism at that.It absolutely hobbles liberty and wraps them around the left's finger.
>>1575835>I can tell you think Altruism means "benevolence".I feel like this discussion might turn into semantics over meaning of words, let's not do that
>>1575850>semantics over meaning of words*argument over semantics of wordslet's just say that states welfare is in no way charitable because of its compulsive nature
>>1575850>I feel like this discussion might turn into semantics over meaning of words, let's not do thatWhy?The meaning of words and their proper relation is of crucial import in philosophy
>>1575892arguing what /is/ and /isn't/ (in our case altruism/benevolence/charity/welfare/etc) just leads to meaningless talk over nothingone anecdotal example I have is one altchan's /pol/ variant where a thread about criticism of natsoc derailed into 200+ replies about "natsoc and fascism being totally different ideologies". With how "fast" altchans are it was extra retarded seeing this nonsesne happening over goddamn months
>>1575894>just leads to meaningless talk over nothingSome of us aren't pessimists. I invite you to consider that you make just be projecting your own weak powers of articulation onto others. That or yours is simply a problem of temperament.
