March 2011
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ALLiance Journal Vol.6 is ALL Ready!
Dear Friends of ALLiance Journal,
We are proud to present ALLiance Journal Vol. 6. We have a new look as well as a easy to print design.
http://alliance.rationalreview.com/2011/03/alliance-journal-vol-6-is-all-ready/
ALLiance Journal: a grassroots, shop-floor, dirt cheap, tabloid aspiring to inspire the Left-Libertarian Movement to delusions of grandeur. We are full of piss and passion; and...
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Anti Anti-Relativism
“…pan-cultural verities … turn out not to be just the arbitrary, personal obsessions they so much look like, but the expression of a much vaster concern, caused by thinking a lot about anthropos in general, that if something isn’t anchored everywhere nothing can be anchored anywhere. …
What the relativists, so called, want us to worry about is provincialism —...
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...by sacrilegious hands...
“During the latter part of the Middle Ages, the desire for reform of the Church was constant. It was strongest and most apparent among laymen, for a famous monastic writer of the fourteenth century testified that laity led better lives than the clergy. To the bulk of ordinary Christians reform meant morality in the priesthood. It became intolerable to them to see the Sacrament administered...
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The Conscience of an Anarchist.
“I am convinced that life without the state will provide lots of opportunities for diverse cultural forms and ideological convictions to come to expression. And I suspect that the most effective ways to move beyond the state may involve practical experiments in doing without it right now.”
“The state tends to crowd out alternatives, making people dependent by default on the...
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Archangel Woodrow's War on Radicals.
“By the end of that year [1919], [Eugene V.] Debs was in jail, the IWW was being shattered, [Emma] Goldman and [Alexander] Berkman had been exiled, and [Benjamin R.] Tucker was secluded in Europe. America had temporarily rid itself of its noisiest libertarians. As many as 15,000 may have been arrested during 1917-19. And, once again, the radicals felt betrayed by the inconsistent...
“Well I sometimes call myself a libertarian but that’s only because most people...”
– Robert Anton Wilson (via type1)
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CONTRACT FEUDALISM
“This book presents a fundamental reassessment of the nature of wage labor in the nineteenth century, focusing on the use of sanctions to enforce wage labor agreements. Professor Steinfeld argues that wage workers were not employees at will but were often bound to their employment by enforceable labor agreements, which employers used whenever available to manage their labor costs and...
