Ideas Smash the State
The following flyer, along with other market anarchist material, is to be handed out to Ron Paul supporters in Minneapolis today. I’ll upload the .doc file later. Thanks to Brad and Soviet Onion for input.
Freedom in chains! Dissent in cages!
The two party system has failed to uphold liberty. The electoral process has failed to restore liberty.
Participating in elections is playing on the tyrants’ turf by the tyrants’ rules. It is an attempt to wring liberty from a system that is set up to keep the people in chains.
So what is a liberty lover to do? Fortunately there are many approaches. The following suggestions overlap each other and provide effective methods of fighting government oppression.
Think Direct Action – Bypass the rigged political system and instead organize the people to affect the changes you wish to see.
Think Market Based Alternatives – A system of voluntary trade and cooperation is not only more just and productive than statist intervention, but when economic activity is focused on undermining the state, the power of true entrepreneurs can destroy the system of political power and privilege.
Think Mutual Aid – Individuals cooperate for mutual gain and help each other with no centralized control. Looking out for each other is participatory insurance for a free world.
Think Civil Disobedience – Why do you have a conscience if you were not meant to use it? Whether confrontational or not, civil disobedience can be effective at gaining a little liberty now and a lot of liberty tomorrow.
Think Communication – Alternative media and information campaigns can bypass the press and go straight to the people, or exploit the press for liberty’s gain.
Instead of working within the system, why not work on building a new society within the shell of the old? Together we can build a society of liberty, where the rights of every individual to life, liberty, and justly acquired property are respected and upheld regardless of race, religion, trade, orientation, or geographical origin.
Free the Markets – Free the People
Agora! Anarchy! Action!
all-left.net
agorism.info
mutualist.org
[UPDATE 11-16-08 THE FLYER WAS POSTED AT AGORISM.INFO]
September 2nd, 2008 at 8:34 pm
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September 2nd, 2008 at 10:46 pm
Excellent flyer.
We need more though. I’m going to work on setting up some type of organization at my school that centers around liberty as a proxy for Agorism.
I feel obligated to do it, especially after not being able to attend RNC because of this damn place.
September 3rd, 2008 at 1:02 pm
Nice. I’ll PDF the .doc for you if you don’t have the software for it.
September 5th, 2008 at 12:01 pm
I would love to get a hold of more of these flyers in order to distribute them around the place. I really feel like rewording this slightly to fit a new audience here at home — but that feels sort of wrong. Still a great flyer.
September 7th, 2008 at 3:59 am
Thanks everyone. I’m going to post a .pdf soon.
Royce, they were made with little sleep and a certain audience in mind so I wouldn’t hesitate to reword them. I would like to see any version you come up with.
September 8th, 2008 at 8:41 pm
[...] up” the appearance of the crew from before and the black flag was left in the car. This time a flyer was brought addressing anti-authoritarians attempting to change things through electoral channels. [...]