The Mindcrime Liberty Show with Dobson and Patton

Ep 27. Why the left, including left anarchists like Chomsky/Carson, will never abolish the state.

The Mindcrime Liberty Show discusses why the Left will never, in all likelihood, abolish the state. This is a continuation of an earlier episode we did with Keith Preston on “Does the left advocate the police state” but this time we state our own views. The left, compared to the right, has a very unconstrained vision in Thomas Sowell’s term such as: defeating climate change (if it exists) or public health crises, mass education and mass healthcare, or equality which can only really likely be “defeated” with a state.

The Mindcrime Liberty Show outlines three or four different types of the left including the social democrats, the Marxist-Leninist, and the anarcho et al or classical anarchist. One could include primitivists but considering the fact that indigenous societies according to the myth of the ecological Indian weren’t that nice to the environment and according to mainstream natural historians might have hunted large mammals to including the buffalo. Considering that for the most part indigenous societies are rather functionally “traditional” or reactionary (ranging from the Amish/Hutterites to maybe uncontacted isolated groups), most left wing people aren’t going to become primitivists anytime soon.

The social democrats are not that radical as identified by both Jeff Riggenbach as well as Jonah Goldberg (although they place them differently on the political spectrum) and are not that much different then normie conservatives, rather, just want to spend money on healthcare or public works projects instead of the military. Although considering the fact that public works projects tend to be military in intent, we at the Mindcrime Liberty Show tend to think this distinction doesn’t even exist. The Marxist-Leninist are quite obviously “statist.” The Marxist-Leninists have always historically had a state and actually a larger, more deadly police state then either the Romanovs or the Bourbons.

The hardest case for us libertarians at the Mindcrime Liberty Show to diagnose is the anarchical et al groups. We already discussed the primitivists but the more advanced anarchists must first show why they can’t defend themselves from the Marxist-Leninists? Why did the classical anarchists lose to them in both the Russian and Spanish civil war? Right libertarians might have a defense problem but so does left classical anarchists (as well as mutalists and the other et al groups).

Also how does classical anarchists deal with climate change or a major public health crisis if they of course think it’s a problem? We at the Mindcrime liberty show are agnostic or even “deniers” who take a Alex Epstein view or a Knutt Wittkowski view respectively on the issues but if you listen to those “infallible” “most high and mighty” state healthcare “experts” how are they solved under classical anarchism/mutualism considering people like us exist? Bismarkian social democrat might be able to work but as discussed that requires cops, a mass education and propaganda system with authoritarian teachers, and of course a military to defend it from outsiders who would “contaminate” the system. Thus, considering all that we at the Mindcrime Liberty Show thinks the left will never or rather unlikely to abolish the state and all its apparatuses for a variety of theoretical and pragmatic reasons.

 

 

 

26 Is Libertarianism traditional or libertine w/Rik Storey. Hoppe, Tucker, Block or all the above?

The Mindcrime Liberty Show is joined by Rik Storey to discuss whether Libertarianism is a reactionary/traditional or liberal/libertine system of thinking? Is libertarianism about free love, abortion, and drugs as often times criticized by conservatives? Or is it a form of private landed patriarchal tyranny as believed by average social democrats and Noam Chomsky? We discuss the dispute between Hoppe, Tucker, and Block over what libertarian attitudes ought to be towards culture. Is Hoppe's realistic strategy the correct strategy or is Tucker's more liberal more likely? What is the underpinning culture of libertarianism? Is it traditional Christianity or Liberalism? Is Christianity traditional? What is libertarianism and Christianity's relationship to family and children?

 

URL Feed.

https://mindcrimelibertyshow.podbean.com 

 

Ep. 25 What is progressivism? Who is a progressive? w/guest Don.

The mindcrime liberty show is joined by a guest to discuss what is progressivism. Is it a meaningful word and who is personified by it.  

Ep. 24 Carl Schmitt and the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Supreme courts, power, and the exception

The Mindcrime Liberty Show discuss the death of RBG and how it relates to sovereignty. Schmitt's definition of who is sovereign, is he who decides the exception. If the US constitution, as opposed to the people, is sovereign who decides when amendments apply and what precisely the words mean. In that case the supreme court is sovereign in theory. Whether the executive, the military, and legislature follows it is of some question and to some extent is the question in itself.  Furthermore,  does Britain have a comparable institution at this point? In a future, hypothetical libertarian world of competing law generated on the private market would a similar institution exist? How do the intractable decisions get resolved to decide what the law functionally and practically is rather then what some philosopher or theorist thinks it ought to be. 

Ep. 23 Does Tyrannicide solve David Friedman's hard problem/cryto currencey with Jim Bell.

The Mindcrime Libertyshow interviews the somewhat infamous, depending on ones worldview, Jim Bell the creator of AP politics.  Now of course the show doesn't endorse or advocating killing anyone but the state itself if you take the emprical work of RJ Hummel seriously has assassinated a huge number of people.  Would this system lead lead to the French revolution committee of public safety scenario with the execution of anyone and everyone? We discuss Bob Murphy's objection in his article entitled the politics of destruction.  Would it be better or no different then the current system? As intellectuals ranging from Noam Chomsky to Hans Hoppe would say:

  "If the Nuremberg Laws were applied, every postwar president would have been hanged" -Noam Chomsky

."If measured by the standards of natural law and justice, all politicians, of all parties and virtually without any exception, are guilty, whether directly or indirectly, of murder, homicide, trespass, invasion, expropriation, theft, fraud, and the fencing of stolen goods on a massive and ongoing scale. And every new generation of politicians and parties appears to be worse, and piles even more atrocities and perversions on top of the already existing mountain, so that one feels almost nostalgic about the past. They all should be hung, or put in jail to rot, or set to making compensation."-Hans Hoppe

Again the Mindcrime libertyshow does not advocate the killing of anyone but currently the state is the number one killer and kidnapper in all likelihood or is it?  

 

Politics of destruction. https://news.bitcoin.com/the-politics-of-destruction/

Bell's work.

https://cryptome.org/ap.htm 

Overview of Hummel's empirical work entitled death by government.

https://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/NOTE1.HTM

 

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Ep 22. Will Megacorps dominate the Freed market/Rothbard-istan. Is Kevin Carson a third worldist?

The Mindcrime liberty show discusses whether megacorps would dominate the freed market/Rothbardistan/ancapistan/private law society (or whatever parlance one wants to use).  Is certain libertarian critiques of the megacorps, in particular Kevin Carson illustrated in his book Organizational Theory, ultimately become the kind of almost third world Maoist style critique of capitalism?  Would large corporations be able to form without intellectual property, a large labyrinth of legal regulations, and the backing of a large monopolistic state as both a creditor of last resort and buyer of its products? Aren't progressives, (as well as Kevin Carson), ironically the biggest friend of  the megacorps especially when it comes to culture?  Would a private law society/ancapistan  be more "traditional" socially and family/small business centered? 

Ep 21: Does "free" state healthcare and education increase freedom with Keith Preston.

The mindcrime liberty show is joined with guest Keith Preston to discuss the topic of whether free state healthcare and education increased the cause of freedom.   Two of the biggest areas where state power has grown is in the fields of education and healthcare  both of which have been center pieces of much of the left's platform throughout the world.  Has the Labor/Social democratic program of "free" nationalized healthcare as well as programs like medicare and ACA (different societies have different names but they are fairly comparable) increased human freedom?  Has 
"free" and compulsory  government  education improved the cause of freedom as well?  Isn't expecting the state to educate and take care of you a  dangerous and dodgy idea? Was Michel Foucault right, channeling many moderate libertarians like Milton Friedman and Hayek, in that it has created situations of dependency and control? Has the "progressive" state programs crowded out mutual aid societies, private institutions, and the family as well as  other possible forms of alternative healthcare and education?  Has the progressive state served as a barrier to both better, cheaper, and more humane forms of education?  Is state healthcare and education really that enlightened and "progressive" after-all?    

Episode 20: Is the family in Decline with Rik Storey?

The Mindcrime liberty show is joined today with guest Rik Storey on whether the family is getting better or worse? Has modernity destroyed or strengthened the family? What role does the state play in strengthening or harming the family? Was the past as good as many paleocons like a Peter Hitchens or Roger Scruton argue it was?   What caused the change in both marriage formation, out of wedlock births, and the rise in cohabitation/singleness? Was it technology, culture, or something else? What will be the effects be on society? 

Episode 19: Word Salad

The mindcrime liberty show discusses buzzwords such as the various isms and phobias which routinely get thrown out and whether they actually mean anything.  Later we discuss if words such as democracy mean something or is more akin to the other "word salad" words. 

Episode 18: Coronavirus part 2 or why Nassim Taleb is wrong.

The Mindcrimeliberty show revisits the topic of our very first episode: the corona-virus pandemic and the policies various states have enacted.  We discuss Nassim Taleb's and others work on the pandemic and update our earlier take on the pandemic.  Taleb  has consistently held the same alarmist position even when it was unpopular to do so unlike the mainstream.  Taleb praised Trump for closing the border of the US with China which the then "anti alarmist" mainstream criticized.  The biggest problem we have with corona-virus measures in particular stemming from Taleb's precautionary principle is if true they prove too much.  The measures the state is suggesting are merely band aids at best and at worst have no effect. What the state is asking the population to do we think is akin to the duck and cover drills which is more about calming panic which they the state created over a virus which hasn't been as deadly as the various models in particular the imperial model predicted.