Now, state socialism, by objecting to one form of ownership, mainly the right of individual ownership over the means of production, in effect, placed the lives and liberty of all its citizens in the hands of a government clique and does this very simply because no liberty could be achieved in society. If the state apparatus alone has control over means of production like printing presses and the broadcast medium of the airwaves, this control of the means of production is a control over the ends that people in society can seek.
- "Roy A. Childs, Jr."
What is anarchism, anyway? Anarchism is the doctrine that the State should be abolished, and that all the affairs of men should be handled by individuals or voluntary associations. Anarchism is thus the opposition to and denial of the legitimacy of a positive belief; namely, that the State is moral and necessary. It is alleged that anarchism is a need of man only in the sense that the absence of a specific disease is a need of man, or a precondition of health.
- "Roy A. Childs, Jr."
Big business, then, was behind the existence and curriculum of the public educational system, explicitly to teach young minds to submit and obey, to pay homage to the ‘corporate liberal’ system which the politicians, a multitude of intellectuals and many big businessmen created.
- "Roy A. Childs, Jr."
And more: by rushing into politics, what principles are the conservatives abandoning, and which are they accepting? Voting and political action itself implies a sanctioning of the state, and hence of its basis — the rule of man by man. The conservatives would fight the principle by adopting it. They oppose the state — by sanctioning the entire governing process. What will be the result? The growth of the state.
- "Roy A. Childs, Jr."
The only logical attitude that any Objectivist should take toward the present government and constitution is one of uncompromising hostility. And since one does not sanction evil in any capacity, that means that every Objectivist should withdraw his sanction from the political establishment immediately and in every possible way.
- "Roy A. Childs, Jr."
Taxation is by definition legalized robbery. Clearly, it is initiated coercion. As such, no Objectivist can in good conscience support it. So, naturally, most of them don't. Ayn Rand, in her essay in The Virtue of Selfishness entitled ""Government Financing in a Free Society,"" states emphatically that the financing of the state in a free society would be voluntary. But can it be?
- "Roy A. Childs, Jr."
The new anticapitalist are, in spirit and motive, deontologists, and thus criticized not so much the consequences of capitalism , but motives, e.g., the profit motive, acquisitiveness, ‘materialism’ and the like.
- "Roy A. Childs, Jr."
The new anticapitalist are, in spirit and motive, deontologists, and thus criticized not so much the consequences of capitalism , but motives, e.g., the profit motive, acquisitiveness, ‘materialism’ and the like.
- "Roy A. Childs, Jr."
The new anticapitalist are, in spirit and motive, deontologists, and thus criticized not so much the consequences of capitalism , but motives, e.g., the profit motive, acquisitiveness, ‘materialism’ and the like.
- "Roy A. Childs, Jr."
The new anticapitalist are, in spirit and motive, deontologists, and thus criticized not so much the consequences of capitalism , but motives, e.g., the profit motive, acquisitiveness, ‘materialism’ and the like.
- "Roy A. Childs, Jr."