Some things about me you won't like: 🧵 I'm a Christian. A fundamentalist Christian actually. But I believe in practicing non-judgment. I could be wrong about stuff, and I love you even if you don't agree with me. My faith tradition is the Church of Christ. - ThreadSky

walterrothbard.bsky.social • 138 days ago

Some things about me you won't like: 🧵

I'm a Christian. A fundamentalist Christian actually. But I believe in practicing non-judgment. I could be wrong about stuff, and I love you even if you don't agree with me.

My faith tradition is the Church of Christ.

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npkori.bsky.social•138 days ago

I agree with most of your points, even with the idea that christianity and anarchism aren't mutually exclusive, but a "free market" allows monopolies, and the existence of monopolies implies a distinct hierarchy, which is incompatible with anarchism.

walterrothbard.bsky.social•138 days ago

As long as you don't want to solve that with a state or with force, we're agreed.

And if we're not agreed - we can still be friends. Most everybody I know disagrees with me, and my goal is not to be belligerent about it.

npkori.bsky.social•138 days ago

When you say "force," do you mean force from a socio-political entity that is "higher-up" or more powerful than the monopolies in question? Or are you referring to force from the laborers?

walterrothbard.bsky.social•138 days ago

By "force" I mean anything that infringes someone else's right to life, liberty, or property.

npkori.bsky.social•138 days ago

Well, I believe that if people are being exploited by any form of hierarchy, be that a government or a corporation, then force or violence can become justified, under the right circumstances of course.

walterrothbard.bsky.social•138 days ago

I'm an anarchist. That doesn't mean throwing bombs and start a revolution cause chaos, it means I believe people fare better with no rulers at all and rulers are not a benefit.

walterrothbard.bsky.social•138 days ago

And I'm a free market anarchist - I believe we'd ALL be a lot more prosperous without the government.

walterrothbard.bsky.social•138 days ago

I believe that bar none the worst thing the government does is WAR, and I believe that since February 2022 this has taken a noticeable turn for the worse.

The US is unequivocally an empire waging proxy wars across the globe.

walterrothbard.bsky.social•138 days ago

I don't want the government to do *anything*, but rather than waging war I think it'd be *MUCH* better if the government did almost any of the other things I think it shouldn't do.

I'm anti-socialism, but welfare socialism is MUCH better than warfare socialism.

walterrothbard.bsky.social•138 days ago

I want to end *all* the wars. Not just the ones with weapons, but the war on drugs, the war on immigration - all of them.

walterrothbard.bsky.social•138 days ago

Yes, I want the free market to regulate immigration, not the state. Put that in your pipe and smoke it, Republicans.

ancombunny.bsky.social•138 days ago

No gods, no masters

No bootlicking, no hierarchy

Abolish markets, abolish corporations

Abolish capitalists appropriating the anarchist label and taking up space in anarchist discourse circles

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