Anarcho-Syndicalism and Anarchism as a Whole

A brief explanation how out of the strands of social anarchism anarcho syndicalism would prevail over anarcho communism and collectivist anarchism in a stateless society.

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Alternative Medicine 1/2 – Bullshit!

Alternative Medicine – Bullshit – Penn & Teller – Showtime

A look at chiropractic medicine, reflexology, magnet therapy, and a trip to an alternative medicine fair that ends in an operation at a crowded mall.

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Documentary film “Vedic Alternative”. Part 4.

Documentary film “Vedic Alternative” by B.V. Nemi Swami

Our World is in great difficulties as we all know. Here Nemi Swami from the Hare Krishna Movement “The Gaudiya Vedanta Samiti” www.purebhakti.com, explaines much of what has gone wrong and how to remedy the problems we are all facing, according to the Vedic view.

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Noam Chomsky – Anarchism (Rare UK Radio Appearance)

One of the few recorded interviews in which Noam Chomsky speaks about his Anarchist convictions.

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The State Is Not Great: How Government Poisons Everything

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Links
Government Death Count: http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/NOTE1.HTM
The Story of Your Enslavement: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xbp6umQT58A
Government Intervention Caused The Financial Crisis: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDp65Juibes
Who Watches The Watchers?: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oR0ZXu5brQo
Free Trade: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVAOpFstIIs
Exploitation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTgJNWs-gWA
Free Market Monopolies: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eO8ZU7TeKPw
Historical Voluntary Land Claim Associations: http://mises.org/journals/jls/3_1/3_1_2.pdf
Current Private Roads: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5DCmDXJun4
Historical Voluntary Fire Brigades: http://www.firemarkcircle.org/documents/goodstory.htm
Historical Voluntary Mutual Aid Societies: http://www.thefreemanonline.org/featured/friendly-societies-voluntary-social-security-and-more/

http://libertariannation.org/a/f12l3.html

What About Somalia?: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtGkTRnocZI

Celtic Irish Law: http://mises.org/journals/jls/1_2/1_2_1.pdf

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Secret Society In Smaller Lies “Little White Horse” (LIVE)

Secret Society in Smaller Lies performs “Little White Horse”

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Why Anarchists Are DEAD Wrong on National Defense (Wiping the Slate Clean of Bad Arguments)

Breakdown of This Video’s Sections

Part 1: Introduction: [0-2:30]
Part 2: What is a Public and Private Good: [2:30-5:45]
Part 3: Free Rider Problem of National Defense: [5:45-11:40]
Part 4: Problems With the “Donations Argument”: [11:40-18:10]
Part 5: Problems With the “Ostracism Argument”: [18:10-29:20]
Part 6: Problems With the “War Insurance Argument”: [29:20-34:10]
Part 7: Problems With the “War Bonds Argument”: [34:10-37:00]
Part 8: Problems With the “Natural Rights Argument”: [37:00-38:15]
Part 9: Problems With the “Wishful Market Thinking Argument”: [38:15-40:50]
Part 10: Problems With the “Militia Argument”: [40:50-50:45]
Part 11: Problems With the “PDA Argument”: [50:45-52:15]
Part 12: Conclusion: [52:15-52:50]
Part 13: My Solution to the Free-Rider Problem in Brief: [52:50-55:57]

I explain why national defense in a stateless society is a free rider problem while arguing that the proposed solutions to this problem given by anarchists don’t come anywhere close to solving the problem.

References

1) Average Absolute Annual Expenditure for the top 10 military spenders

List: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_expenditures#cite_note-The_SIPRI_Military_Expenditure_Database-0
Source: http://milexdata.sipri.org

2) Average Per-Capita Annual Expenditure for the top Absolute Military Spenders:
List: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_expenditures_per_capita
Source: http://milexdata.sipri.org/

3) XM Satellite Radio’s Pay Scheme:

http://www.siriusxm.com/ourmostpopularpackages-xm

4) Americans currently give 300 billion dollars annually to charity

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-06-25-charitable_N.htm

5) About 3/4ths of the country “initially” supported the war in Iraq

http://pewresearch.org/pubs/770/iraq-war-five-year-anniversary

6) Principle of Parsimony (Occum’s Razor)

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/simplicity/

http://www.theness.com/index.php/the-razor-in-the-toolbox/

7) War Insurance:

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig8/bryan4.html
8) “Bond” Definition:

O’Sullivan, Arthur; Sheffrin, Steven M. (2003). Economics: Principles in action. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey 07458: Pearson Prentice Hall. pp. 197, 507.

9) Problem of Rational Ignorance and Democracy

http://wikisum.com/w/Downs:_An_economic_theory_of_democracy

10) Hofstede’s Index of Individualism

http://www.geert-hofstede.com/hofstede_united_states.shtml

11) The Whiskey Rebellion

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiskey_Rebellion#cite_note-0

12) Shay’s Rebellion

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shays%27_Rebellion

13) How Capitalism Saved America (Quotes the Death of Early US Settlers)

http://books.google.com/books?id=_YaS18_3nlQC&printsec=frontcover&dq=how+capitalism+saved+america&hl=en&ei=qCx2TNiTCMKclgfL6_mzCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCwQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Jamestown&f=false

14) The Rise and Fall of the 3rd Reich

http://books.google.com/books?id=sY8svb-MNUwC

15) An Online Link to This Video’s Script:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/57159149/The-Free-Rider-Problem-of-Anarchism-and-National-Defense

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Documentary film “Vedic Alternative”. Part 3 .

Documentary film “Vedic Alternative” by B.V. Nemi Swami

Our World is in great difficulties as we all know. Here Nemi Swami from the Hare Krishna Movement “The Gaudiya Vedanta Samiti” www.purebhakti.com, explaines much of what has gone wrong and how to remedy the problems we are all facing, according to the Vedic view.

Duration : 0:10:8

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But Ain’t I An Anarchist?

For the text version:

http://observerindenial.blogspot.com/2011/04/but-aint-i-anarchist.html

A conception of anarchists

2:20 – 3:00

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Let’s make everything FREE! An introduction to The Free World Charter.

The Free World Charter is a document that proposes an advanced alternative society that uses no money, is free, fair, and sustainable.

It is neither political nor religious. It is simply sense, science and survival.

This is our world and we can choose a better society now if we want it.

Please read and sign The Free World Charter today at http://www.freeworldcharter.org

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