Matt-DestroyerOfWorlds
17th August 2006, 07:52
FREE MARKET
That condition of society in which all economic transactions result from voluntary choice without coercion.
The Illuminatus! Trilogy
[celine]
THE STATE
That institution which interferes with the Free Market through the direct exercise of coercion or the granting of privileges (backed by coercion).
The Illuminatus! Trilogy
[celine]
TAX
That form of coercion or interference with the Free Market in which the State collects tribute (the tax), allowing it to hire armed forces to practice coercion in defense of privilege, and also to engage in such wars, adventures, experiments, "reforms," etc., as it pleases not at its own cost, but at the cost of "its" subjects.
The Illuminatus! Trilogy
[celine]
PRIVILEGE
From the Latin privi, private, and lege, law. An advantage granted by the State and protected by its powers of coercion. A law for private benefit.
The Illuminatus! Trilogy
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USURY
That form of privilege or interference with the Free Market in which one State-supported group monopolizes the coinage and thereby takes tribute (interest), direct or indirect, on all or most economic transactions.
The Illuminatus! Trilogy
[celine]
LANDLORDISM
That form of privilege or interference with the Free Market in which one State-supported group "owns" the land and thereby takes tribute (rent) from those who live, work, or produce on the land.
The Illuminatus! Trilogy
[celine]
TARIFF
That form of privilege or interference with the Free Market in which commodities produced outside the State are not allowed to compete equally with those produced inside the State.
The Illuminatus! Trilogy
[celine]
POLITICAL CAPITALISM
That organization of society, incorporating elements of tax, usury, landlordism, and tariff, which thus denies the Free Market while pretending to exemplify it.
The Illuminatus! Trilogy
[celine]
CONSERVATISM
That school of capitalist philosophy which claims allegiance to the Free Market while actually supporting usury, landlordism, tariff, and sometimes taxation.
The Illuminatus! Trilogy
[celine]
LIBERALISM
That school of capitalist philosophy which attempts to correct the injustices of capitalism by adding new laws to existing laws. Each time conservatives pass a law creating privilege, liberals pass another law modifying privilege, leading conservatives to pass a more subtle law recreating privilege, etc., until "everything not forbidden is compulsory" and "everything not compulsory is forbidden."
The Illuminatus! Trilogy
[celine]
SOCIALISM
The attempted abolition of all privilege by restoring power entirely to the coercive agent behind privilege, the State, thereby converting capitalist oligarchy into Statist monopoly. Whitewashing a wall by painting it black.
The Illuminatus! Trilogy
[celine]
ANARCHISM
That organization of society in which the Free Market operates freely, without taxes, usury, landlordism, tariffs, or other forms of coercion or privilege.
RIGHT ANARCHISTS predict that in the Free Market people would voluntarily choose to compete more often than to cooperate.
LEFT ANARCHISTS predict that in the Free Market people would voluntarily choose to cooperate more often than to compete.
The Illuminatus! Trilogy
[celine]
--I just bought the book. I read 30 pages, decided it was trying too hard to be artistic or weird (postmodernist might be the right word) and then quit. Perhaps I'll try later.
Right anarchism seems to be my thing, considering I'm a cynic (not like Diogenes, more like Brian from Family Guy).
That condition of society in which all economic transactions result from voluntary choice without coercion.
The Illuminatus! Trilogy
[celine]
THE STATE
That institution which interferes with the Free Market through the direct exercise of coercion or the granting of privileges (backed by coercion).
The Illuminatus! Trilogy
[celine]
TAX
That form of coercion or interference with the Free Market in which the State collects tribute (the tax), allowing it to hire armed forces to practice coercion in defense of privilege, and also to engage in such wars, adventures, experiments, "reforms," etc., as it pleases not at its own cost, but at the cost of "its" subjects.
The Illuminatus! Trilogy
[celine]
PRIVILEGE
From the Latin privi, private, and lege, law. An advantage granted by the State and protected by its powers of coercion. A law for private benefit.
The Illuminatus! Trilogy
[celine]
USURY
That form of privilege or interference with the Free Market in which one State-supported group monopolizes the coinage and thereby takes tribute (interest), direct or indirect, on all or most economic transactions.
The Illuminatus! Trilogy
[celine]
LANDLORDISM
That form of privilege or interference with the Free Market in which one State-supported group "owns" the land and thereby takes tribute (rent) from those who live, work, or produce on the land.
The Illuminatus! Trilogy
[celine]
TARIFF
That form of privilege or interference with the Free Market in which commodities produced outside the State are not allowed to compete equally with those produced inside the State.
The Illuminatus! Trilogy
[celine]
POLITICAL CAPITALISM
That organization of society, incorporating elements of tax, usury, landlordism, and tariff, which thus denies the Free Market while pretending to exemplify it.
The Illuminatus! Trilogy
[celine]
CONSERVATISM
That school of capitalist philosophy which claims allegiance to the Free Market while actually supporting usury, landlordism, tariff, and sometimes taxation.
The Illuminatus! Trilogy
[celine]
LIBERALISM
That school of capitalist philosophy which attempts to correct the injustices of capitalism by adding new laws to existing laws. Each time conservatives pass a law creating privilege, liberals pass another law modifying privilege, leading conservatives to pass a more subtle law recreating privilege, etc., until "everything not forbidden is compulsory" and "everything not compulsory is forbidden."
The Illuminatus! Trilogy
[celine]
SOCIALISM
The attempted abolition of all privilege by restoring power entirely to the coercive agent behind privilege, the State, thereby converting capitalist oligarchy into Statist monopoly. Whitewashing a wall by painting it black.
The Illuminatus! Trilogy
[celine]
ANARCHISM
That organization of society in which the Free Market operates freely, without taxes, usury, landlordism, tariffs, or other forms of coercion or privilege.
RIGHT ANARCHISTS predict that in the Free Market people would voluntarily choose to compete more often than to cooperate.
LEFT ANARCHISTS predict that in the Free Market people would voluntarily choose to cooperate more often than to compete.
The Illuminatus! Trilogy
[celine]
--I just bought the book. I read 30 pages, decided it was trying too hard to be artistic or weird (postmodernist might be the right word) and then quit. Perhaps I'll try later.
Right anarchism seems to be my thing, considering I'm a cynic (not like Diogenes, more like Brian from Family Guy).