Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 20:00:19 +0000 From: Iain McKay <iain.mckay-AT-zetnet.co.uk> Subject: Re: hello all > hi folks. i'm putting together a book called "americans against the state" > for vanderbilt u press. it's an anthology of anarchist and libertarian > texts. here's a list of figures i'm including so far. who would you add? > > tom paine > thomas jefferson so that will be Presidents against the state? > josiah warren > stephen pearl andrews > thoreau > lysander spooner > benjamin tucker > voltairine de cleyre > emma goldman > alexander berkman > albert jay nock > barry goldwater in the unsuccessful president candidates against the state? > abbie hoffman > murray rothbard that will be the "I'm not against property owners being little monarchs" against the state? > murray bookchin interesting, all the right-wing shits on this list (i.e. Rothbard and Goldwater) were not against the state as such, just the current one. Rothbard like the good-little propertarian he was, had not problem with a monopoly of power and hierarchy over a given land area as long as it was the boss, not the government. Being for a private state is not being against the state. Iain
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