Art of Liberty Book Recommendation: MUST SPEAK OUT II: The Best of The Voluntaryist 2000-2020
Book is a Compilation of Great Voluntaryist Authors and Commentators
Etienne Note: This is a superb book that I highly recommend to anyone interested in better understand the intellectual rigor behind voluntaryism.
MUST SPEAK OUT II: The Best of The Voluntaryist 2000-2020
by Carl Watner & (Editor) Dave Scotese
"Voluntaryism is a dual doctrine, having both a positive and a negative side...It is the doctrine that all coercive government (what most people would refer to as 'the State') should be voluntarily abandoned; that all invasions of individual self-ownership rights should cease. This is its negative side.
"Its positive side is that all the affairs of people should be conducted on a voluntary basis. It does not argue for the specific form that voluntary arrangements will take; only that the sovereignty of the individual must remain intact, except where the individual coerced has already aggressed upon the sovereignty of another non-aggressive individual.
"To voluntaryists, this dual doctrine represents a means, an end, and an insight...All the affairs of people, both public and private, should be carried out by individuals or their voluntary associations. The means to reach such an end state must be consistent with the goal sought. As shall be demonstrated, it is in fact the means that determine the end. So only voluntary methods of persuasion, education, and nonviolent resistance to State criminality may be used to bring about voluntaryist goals. People cannot be coerced into freedom...
"The voluntaryist spirit is thus an attitude of mind or a sense of life, if you will, which animates those engaged in the struggle for the recognition of self-ownership rights and the demise of the State...It is an understanding that the morality and principles of voluntary interaction with other self-owners is the only practical manner of living life upon this earth."
--CARL WATNER (excerpt from the above-titled book)
Carl Watner, voluntaryist O.G., was working on another compilation of articles selected from The Voluntaryist magazine, when he passed away.
This 430 page anthology covers essentially every aspect of voluntaryism: from philsophical subjects like voluntaryism being a matter of integrity & conscience; to money & taxation; to schooling & education; to non-violence & non-voting as strategies; & concluding with many personal testimonials of how various individuals became voluntaryists...
Including submissions from:
*Robert LeFevre
*Hans-Herman Hoppe
*Karl Hess
*Benjamin Tucker
*George H. Smith
*Lysander Spooner
*Spencer MacCallum
*Peter Eyre
*Joyce Brand
And many more…
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