No standing army worth mentioning, no centralized tax machine, no king-like executive barking orders... Just a bunch of regular people... who pulled off one of history's greatest upsets...
It's not stubbornness; it's integrity. And in the battle between the people and the statists, that's the edge we need to build a truly voluntary world.
It's April 15th. The clock ticks like a bomb. Your hands tremble over a stack of forms thicker than a novel. A tax code that sprawls across 70,000 pages of legalese designed to trap you. 6 billion hours. Just to figure out how much the government will wrench from your pocket.
Why do these self-proclaimed rulers get to do things that would get any normal person locked up, shot, or both—steal your money at gunpoint, tell you what you can ingest, spy on your life, bomb weddings halfway around the world — and call it "governance"?
Imagine rolling hills bathed in California sunshine, where long-haired dreamers strummed guitars and preached peace, love, and revolution. That's the postcard image of Laurel Canyon in the 1960s...
Libertarian class analysis targets those who gain by the existence of the State as the ultimate exploiters. Whereas Marxism targets private ownership and free exchange.
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