Why should we favor human liberty over a social order ruled by power? In providing the answer, I would suggest that libertarians can generally be divided into two camps: humanitarians and brutalists. The humanitarians are drawn to reasons such as the following. Liberty allows peaceful human cooperation. It inspires the creative service of others. It...
“Today, the radical critique of the modern world must target and encompass the ‘totality.’ It must inseparably contain its real past, what it effectively is, and the perspectives of its transformation. To tell the whole truth about the current world, and even more so, to formulate the project of its total subversion, we must be...
1. Although the social circumstances in which we live determine our activities, we are free and responsible for what we do, so we can and should take sides. Nothing is predetermined, and each person has the task of deciding what kind of life they want to lead. There are no deterministic laws in the history...
We deeply disagree with those organizations that believe a political program is merely a collection of maximalist aspirations due to their inability to establish real communication with broad sectors of the population. We also distance ourselves from those collectives that simply adopt reformist demands without attempting to contribute anything to the struggles of the working...
Seemingly John Stossel never sits down to write without the goal of further lowering the bar for qualifying as a libertarian. This time (“My Trump Problem,” Reason, Nov. 11), he’s managed to push the criterion to the all-time low of being somewhat less statist than Donald Trump. Stossel’s first problem with Trump allegedly centers on...