Enough Is Enough

BBC radio four plumbs new depths of craven inanition.On the Today programme prof Skidelski on why people don't know when they have enough acquisitions and how they should be taxed in their consumption to stop them.The only response to Left wing professors when they serve up this arrant Socialist nonsense and offensive authoritarian guff is: 'how dare you presume to tell us what represents 'enough' in our private affairs -go fuck off and die'.

Democracy and The Age Of Barbarism

The greatest con trick ever perpetrated on the human race is Democracy.It presents itself as a noble ideal,as the flower of civilization when it is nothing but barbarism with lipstick.Democracy gives each man the right to be his own dictator as someone said but to hear people utter the word with a beatific look on their face as if they had uttered a pious incantation shows how easily gulled and fooled the masses are.Human beings do have parasitic tendencies and the politicians who slither to power being the sociopaths they are know this proclivity fully well and utilize it to gain power and build a career out of the legal plunder that is Democracy.Instead of having to work for values, simply by marking a cross at the ballot box the electorate are offered a slice of other's property and wealth forcibly extracted through taxation.This is the essence of mob rule and it is Democracy.Under a republic this could not occur.The rights of individuals would be protected and no majority would ever be able to threaten them.As Thomas Jefferson observed:"Democracy is 51% of the population's wealth and property voted away by the other 41%".Under a Republic not even 99% of the people would be able to vote away the wealth and property of the other 1%.No more pious cant is ever uttered than when in the defence of Democracy.We have just seen it at work in Egypt where the muslim brotherhood have been voted into power.Authoritarians love Democracy because it is the legitimizor of groupthink and mobrule sanctified by the ballot box. Under Democracy we have Conservatives and the liberal left and they argue in phoney opposition about how much wealth should be plundered from the people through taxation.The former are in favour of lesser degree of plunder than the latter but because they have conceded the moral argument that such plunder is moral and legitimate the only winner is plunder as a moral good and it is only a matter of time before Democracy degenerates into its logical conclusion of tyranny. Before the masses can be enslaved by Democracy a language has to be created to present this barbarism as benign.Words like 'fairness' are used and 'equality',and anyone who opposes such noble things are labelled as selfish and anti social and thus is debate stifled and all opposition silenced.

Government Obesity

BBC prog in three parts has been discussing how food marketers made everyone fat by increasing portion sizes,encouraging grazing and in between meal snacking and adding huge amounts of sugar to soft drinks and sweets.Being a BBC programme of course it was not long before the agenda hove into view:the government should tax sugar.No mention whatsoever of who is to blame for this 'epidemic' of obesity: the people who devour such stuff.Did the marketers pin them down and force-feed them this confection of junk?There is only one threat to the people and it is not supersize burger or coke but supersize government that wants to tell us what to do every minute of the day,to police our eating habits and all our comings and goings.

Taxation As Terrorism

The news that comedian Carr has been avoiding tax has provoked a cacophony of phoney outrage by the establishment for whom taxation avoidance is deemed a heinous crime when it it is of course a perfectly natural response of anyone towards a mugger seeking to separate him or her from their property except of course in this case it is the State that is the mugger and its predatory attentions are harder to evade.The moral case against taxation is totally absent from public discourse.No politician would dare to broach it as their political existence is dependent upon the predatory State and its kleptocratic designs.

Anti Politics Open Door

There is so much disgust by the general public of all things political that now is a perfect time to introduce revolutionary thinking into public political discourse.The arguments are not essentially political but philosophical namely what the role of the state actually is.The challenge is to take the argument to the defenders of big State mixed economy and argue for markets,freedom,deregulation and pure laissez faire capitalism on purely moral grounds.Up till now it has been left to the Conservatives to carry the baton for Capitalism but they have dropped it way back in the mists of time and are now fully paid up members of the pragmatic mixed economy compromise which has bedevilled the country for decades and left us in this sorry pass we are now in.The country cannot be saved on a mixture of flawed premiseswhich are toxic and rooted in egalitarianism and socialism.This must be rejected and a stout defence of freedom and liberty presented in unambiguous unapologetic terms.

To do the above we first have to ask the question why are Conservatives so reluctant to champion Capitalism unambiguously.The answer lies in a comment Peter Hitchens made a month or so ago on the Andrew Marr Start the Week programme on radio four.When asked to define Conservatism and its roots he claimed, I think with justification, that it has its roots in Christianity.Now one thing we know about Christianity is that it is strong on self sacrifice and altruism which is why it very often seems to be more aligned with Socialist thinking than Capitalism.The fact that Hitchens believes in a nationalised post office and rail system,is profoundly anti car which is a symbol of Capitalism and is social Conservative when it comes to proscribing personal behaviour he disapproves of such as drugs only serves to prove how profoundly anti capitalist such conservatism can be.Sunday trading laws are far too liberal he believes,the list goes on and illustrates how hopeless and futile it is to rely on Conservatism to defend Capitalism.Until enough people can see what a lost cause Conservatism is re Capitalism the spelll cannot be broken and tory voters will continue breathing life into the rotten raddled party.

People are so conditioned to think that altruism is moral that it is a task and a half to convince them otherwise.The media hammers away at this meme 24 7 and no one even exposes the ideology of socialism that underpins the tax system.Any discourse on taxation starts from the unchallenged premise that taxation is inherently moral and anyone who seeks to avoid paying it is guilty of a heinous crime.Until the ideology behind taxation namely altruism is challenged no progress can be made in eliminating it from the moral realm in which it is ensconced by default.What a triumph of the Left that they have managed to entrench their ideology at the very heart of the tax system and to have ensured that it is morally unassailable.This is where we need to strike,at the very heart of the beast!It is a bit like the emperors new clothes syndrome.Once one person or group challenges this canard the whole system will come tumbling down.Any political party or movement that introduces this subject into public discourse will have the whole field to itself because the status quo dare not raise this issue as it is considered too radical,unthinkable,beyond mention.

The Politics of Looting

The rioters and looters last summer were pitiable amateurs.To see how the profesionals do it we need to go to the political classes all across the Western world.These people have perfected their craft over centuries,they know how to loot wholesale,theirs is a sophisticated and powerfull bureaucracy of looting via taxation and they have brainwashed the masses into thinking this is a)moral and b) inevitable when it is of course neither.It is a confidence trick and they are well versed in it,and use the whole panoply of the coercive State to intimidate the people with threats of inprisonment if they dare to resist their parasitic claim on their life and substance through taxation.The pathetic figleaf of rationale they employ to justify this legal plunder is nothing more than the miserable canard of altruism, the squalid anti-life philosophy of self-sacrifice where the competent achievers are enjoined to sacrifice themselves to the incompetent non achievers through 'progressive' taxation.Taxation is the use of agression by the state on a disarmed populace.If we apprehend a burglar in our house we can use force against him,likewise if the State initiates force and violence against the individual via taxation then the individual has a right to defend himself against such depredations.That established need now only discuss the means that should be employed to defend ourselves against the predatory State.

Join Me In My Death Cult I Mean Religion

I am starting a new religion.It is based on a mystical entity I dreamt of last night.It was a being of almighty power and dimension and it chose me as its representative!I am endowed with special powers that must not be questioned.Young people will come to my churches that I plan to build on every street corner and be indoctrinated I mean taught the only true way.Of course my religion will be protected by the State.No one must offend me or my feelings,how dare they even think of such blasphemous thoughts!Such hate crimes and bigotry will not be tolerated!Who knows what might befall such objectors to my divinely inspired edicts.Soon everyone will have to be converted to my faith.All laws will be changed to comply with my religion of course.Women will cover themselves in public. Our schools will be tax funded.Of course I am well aware that my religion will take several centuries to bed in.Many wars will have to be fought to lend it the authenticity of longevity.Millions will have to die sacrificed on the altar of the new faith before it is given its just recognition. Am I mad,how could such a thing ever come to pass you say?Is this all too far fetched? Thank God it was just a dream and such outlandish things could never happen here in the UK lol.

The Power To Tax Is The Power To Enslave

People! When will you awaken from your sleep of reason and see that the unfettered taxing State is the tyrant who would enslave you all!What will it take?The bonds of slavery are already fastened around you.The seductive voice of the enslaver State has lulled you into a comatose hypnosis proffering you welfare extracted from you in the first place.How stupid are you,how easily gulled,disarmed by the sophistry of tyrants who would give you everything and take everything to do it to feed the parasitic welfariat bred into existence with your hard earned money taken in taxes.You fools,you imbeciles credulous to the last,voting in another batch of tyrants who will take away your remaining freedoms whilst promising you the earth.How do they do it?By appealing to the most evil impulse in the human breast:the desire for the unearned.What is tyhe evil creed they use to disarm your opposition be there any? Altruism.Self sacrifice with its Christian Platonist roots.For centuries you have had it dinned into you.Sacrifice is the highest ideal,bare your neck to others needs and wants.To keep what is yours is evil,to give is good,the rich are evil the poor are good.Poverty is a virtue,wealth is the root of evil.Tax,tax,tax the rich till they squeal.Dare to achieve,aspire, become wealthy?Woe betide you,you will become hated,envied,lectured to,robbed stripped of your wealth to feed those who are too lazy to feed themselves and all in the name of the evil of altruism.This crime against humanity is committed under many names,Communism,Socialism,Fascism,Liberalism,Democracy,Conservatism but its goal is the same: to rule and enslave the minds of the creators and to bring into being a substrata of subhumanoids bred on welfare with a sense of entitlement hardwired into them represented by the power elite who promise them yet more of the unearned taking from the taxes of the few remaining producers who are stupid enough to carry on working under bondage.

Democracy Stupid

It would be very hard for a man to argue that the world owed him a living.Even politicians would never come out with such a bald statement.In order to get away with such an obscene proposition the defender of such an untenable argument would have to deploy deliberately vague imprecise language with liberal helpings of euphemism and obsfuscation.Ostensibly laudatory statements along the lines of 'no man should go hungry or be without shelter' would have to be put to service.Even better, hunger ignorance and want could be presented as enemies to be fought and overcome by the benevolent State which is exactly what was done at the inception of the welfare stte in 1945.Thus the wool is pulled over people's eyes and no one has to think about where the money for such noble aims is going to come from.An impersonal agent called 'the government' is somehow going to magic this money out of thin air and play santa claus to every bum who chooses not to work or provide for himself.Thus all anathema can be heaped upon the government for not providing enough or for being heartless in its meagre response to the needs of the indigent.

No man would go to his neighbour and demand that he feed and shelter him,that indeed it is his duty to so do but he will vote for the politician who promises to take money from his neighbour in taxes to do just that.How can anyone doubt or question that such a system is depraved,corrupt and evil,that it robs people of their substance in the service of parasitism and mendicancy? Is it even possible to comprehend the state of moral depravity of the man who would make a career out of redistributing the money from the productive to the non productive and that a whole body of philosopy and politics could have been constructed to present such criminality as a moral ethical system and that if anyone demurs from such a view they would be castigagted as themselves being immoral and heartless?Such is the audacious achievement of the collectivists and socialists who now dare not speak their name and rather present themselves as social democrats or liberals.

How is this injustice to be properly challenged? Anyone who chooses to take on the collectivists would have to challenge the language they deploy and translate their true intent therby.No easy task...

Marxist Scum On The March

Here we go again.1979 revisited.This is the scum Maggie was supposed to have routed but it was just tory folklore because the stake was not driven into the black and rotten heart of the union beast, it only had its wings clipped.None of the political parties will deal with the unions.It would take another party representing capitalism to do that.Expect more of the same as we death spiral over the cliff Greekwards.

As Berlusconi Is Bundled Out In EU Coup What Price Democracy?

There is no longer any pretence that the EU is democratic with the summary ousting of Berlusconi by EU commisars and his replacement with euphemistically termed 'technocrat' Monti as the BBC refers to him with drooling approval.This is a naked power grab more in keeping with third world banana republics and thugocracies.Imagine if the Spanish Socialist MP had been similarly ousted as his country goes into economic meltdown and the howls of outrage and gnashing of teeth this would elicit from the MSM BBC Guardianistas But.because it was the Left's bete noire Berlusconi is was met with relief approbation and dancing in the streets.The mask is now off and the Germans are now forth reich in their demands that UK falls in line with their master plan of complete EU German hegemony.

Tim Nice But Dim Mongomerrie Thinks Cameron Is The New Major

Major Major?He kept us in the EU, the quisling.He tinkered with welfare and Curried favours.Anyone who dared to stand on principle was a 'bastard'.Thatcher's verdict on him: "I thought he was one of us.I was wrong." At least no one could make that mistake with the human oil slick Tory Cameron with his Maoist localist tendencies and Big Society collectivism.(The above is what I posted to conhome but for some reason they have not carried it.)

An Interview With Myself

When does a mixed economy become a Socialist economy?About 50 years ago.

What do you think of Economic liberalism? I think it would be a very good idea.

Why don't Conhome allow half of your posts? Can't handle the truth.

Does Izlam pose an existential threat to Civilization? You bet it does.

When are you going to start your Capitalist movement? About 3 months ago.

Why is the Occupy Capitalism movement gathering momentum? Total lack of any concerted rebuttal of its patent absurdities and toxic anti freedom message.

What should be done about the BBC? It should be privatised,sold off of course preferably to Rupert Murdoch.Failing that - and no one hold their breath - there should be an organised non-payment of licence fee.

Are you an extremist? Yes.I beleive everyone should be extremely good extremely moral and extremely rational.Extremism is a measurement not a moral value.

Are people ready for unregulated laisez faire Capitalism? They better be. Freedom is not optional and cannot be put to the vote.Or you get Nazi Germany or Democracy which is mob rule by the ballot box.

Why are Conservatives so morally weak,spineless, confused, irrational and contradictory? Glad you asked! They are all those things and more because they have no moral base,no rational moorings, no guiding principles or values.They are whim worshippers,subjectivists, pragmatist,traditionalist,tribalist,religious with vague inconsistent leanings towards Capitalism.All of which is why they were not able to oppose the construction of the Welfare State,The EU and now the global anti Capitalist movement.If you are waiting for them to put up a moral defence of Capitalism take to the hills and find a nice cave.

Do people have a right to self defence? Do you have to ask?! Of course.The Brits even have a Bill of Rights which clearly allows the bearing of arms.

Is taxation moral? Hell no.It is the most evil imposition of force against a defencelss population in the whole of human history.It is worse than cannibalism.At least cannibals wait till you are dead before eating you.Taxation is the devouring of man's substance whilst he is still alive.It is so monstrously evil and obscene that no man has ever justified it or even attempted to but has merely served up stale bromides in its defence which a three year old child could see through yet whole nations have been cowed by in the absence of any moral consistent,coherent defence of liberty and freedom with the sole exception of Ayn Rand.

Why are Conservatives worshippers of tradition? Because they are tribalist.Collectivist in short.They believe in blood and race which makes them irrationalist and racist.They support rule by bloodline and birth ie monarchy,the divine right of kings, constitutional totalitarianism.Unless someone has been knighted and a sword placed on both shoulders he has no moral legitimacy to rule over his subjects,note subjects, not citizens.This is feudalism,mysticism, ancester worship,voodoo in ermine,ugly primitivism masquerading as civilization.

Is there any hope for the human race? Could go either way.At present trends are not looking good.There is an intellectual moral vacuum and tribalistic yahoos and collectivists are filling the breach.The voices of opposition and reason are crowded out and marginalised in the mainstream media.The blogosphere and modern media are the only hope that things can be turned around.But the yahoos appear to have co opted those as well by default as the rational are too quiescent and unorganised.

Harrison Mystical Materialist

Don't know what to make of the first half of the George Harrison Scorsece film last night.It was a bit of a muddle but I think that is his MO.Half the people who spoke I did not recognise because in order to distance himself from Run of the Mill documentarists Scor thinks it is a cachet not to include their names.The only thing I was thinking last night was that the genius of the Beatles was obviously Paul.In five minutes or less I had counted 20 classic ballad tracks of his but when I tried to count lennon's contribution I was struggling after identifying just three. It has now been confirmed that Paul was the driver and had he not rallied the troops a good third of their recordings would never have seen the light of day as Lennon was notoriously lazy.There has been so much hype and idolatory surrounding Lennon,about he was the Beatles but there is no hard evidence to back this up.He made a right tit of himself in 69 with his bed in peace nonsense,got lost in avant garde excrement with Loco Ono,flirted with Janov Primal Scream and then retreated into pseudo domestic bliss whilst Loco built up the Lennon empire.As for Harrison he got lost up his own mystical fundament and started to preach religious mumbo jumbo after being slipped some acid by his dentist.They all trooped off to Maharashi but soon took flight after his charlatanism became obvious to everyone but George who by this time was set on a path of blisful inanition.He wrote a handful of cracking songs not least the iconic Taxman and was genial enough but definitely the third Beatle and hardly deserving of 4 hours on BBC2.It turns out as a footnote that when a mad assailant broke into his mansion and stabbed Harrison just missing his vital organs by inches instead of repelling the would be assassin Harrison sat there and chanted Hari Krishna whilst his long suffering American wife Oliva beat the attacker over the head with a lampshade thus saving George from certain death.You couldn't make it uo.Give Peace a Chance what?!

This all begs the question what makes certain celebrities embrace mysticism when they appear to have the world at their feet.I think it is misplaced guilt.We live in a culture that says money making is evil and to assuage this unearned guilt they retreat into the unreality of mysticism and merge into an unfocused induced trance-like state where guilts and neurosis are purged in an amnesiacal haze brought on my chanting into a hypnoidal state which is how Harrison describes the process in the Scorsese film.Yes he was an arch defender of property rights and opponent of taxation per se but his irrational unease with wealth led him to the unreason of mysticism as a refuge.This is where all the hypocrisy comes in.We now have an extremely wealthy man living in a mansion that most quotes ordinary people could not even imagine in their wildest dreams preaching to the world the virtues on non materialsm.A few miles down the road John Lennon is sitting in his mansion at a grand piano or was it Steinway? singing a song to us with the lyrics,Imagine no possessions.Clearly none of them did irony.The hangers on were too timid and self interested to point out the glaring contradictions.Both Beatles now literally had everything: their spiritual/materialist cake and could eat it too.

This brazen hypcocrisy is now common.The two Beatles were merely the trail blazers in it.Now we have to listen to lectures by millionaire rock stars on an almost daily basis on the the evils of capitalism. Must it not be intensely irritating to people who struggle to make ends meet to have to listen to the likes of George Harrison in his mansion telling themthat money is not important?It is also the height of irresponsibility as many impressionable people possible tens of thousands who knows? dropped out of the material world altotgether but unlkike Harrison did not have a mansion to retreat into and ended up destitute on drugs and then dead.Some legacy George.

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Lest We Forget And Get A Life

Trying to forget it is Rememberance Sunday.Not very difficult really is it?! It is so vacuous an affair, so insubstantial it is a bit like railing against thin air.Basically it is an excuse for perpetuation of monarchy, empty pomp and non circumstance and a terrible criminal waste of tax payers money.It is a display of fraudulent pseudo patriotism, an obscene pantomime of empty gravitas played out against the total capitulation to our slave masters across the channel,our liberties sold on the instalment plan to Brussels.This betrayal of our birthright on such a massive scale is a cause of shame but this sham sorrow and ersatz sentiment is an added insult to our national shame.British soldiers died for nothing.We are slaves of the Germans and French.Hitler won. End of.

Render Unto Caesar What Is Seizers

As someone has just helpfully pointed out to me the history of taxation is a long one indeed.I do not pretend to be a student of that.I seem to remember reference to ancient Egypt in that regard.One thing I do know is that Jesus Christ appeared in the Bible to give his tacit consent to the principle of taxation when he said to an enquirer into the proper role of the State: "render unto Caesar what is Caesar's.Someone else also told me that in the Mormon church it was said that people should obey their State masters if they are honourable men.There is more evidence amongst the big religions of an anti capitalist,individualist bias.I think the Socialists can rightly claim religion as being on their side.There is some evidence that contradicts this trend however re the quote: 'you do not see the righteous begging for bread'.The good samaritan is able to help because he has money but altruism seems to be advocated here.The story of the talents may also be construed as a defence of Capitalism and investment so the picture is not unequivocal. The point is however that just because taxation stretches back into the mists of time and even Jesus Christ seemed to accept it morally does not mean it is moral or good.As well say human sacrifices go back thousands of years ergo they must be good.The argument from tradition is fallacious.If it were not one would have to accept cannibalsim as a moral system since it stretches back a long way.

Why We Desperately Need A Capitalist Party

On Con home recently someone posted a piece about the need for a moral defence of Capitalism.All well and good but the writing in question completely failed to propose any coherent strategy to that end.It is futile in my opinion to expect the Conservatives to mount such a defence.They lack the philosophical consistency and rigour to do it.They pride themselves on their anti intellectualism and pragmatism.This is why over generations they have betrayed the cause of freedom and compromised with collectivist premises and policies all the way down the line from the construction of the Welfare State to the UK membership of the EU.Their tacit if not overt support of a 'constitutional' Monarchy is yet another indication of how they are not equipped to defend liberty and have no moral ground upon which to do it.Waiting for Conservatives to secure our liberty agsainst a predaTory illiberal State will be a truly Becketian excercise of delusional and groundless wishful thinking escalating to Dizzying levels of Kafkaesque futility.

Who Will Defend Liberty?

It is not fair to expect producers and business people to be on the frontline in defending the right to keep the fruits of their labour for this reason.Producers and businessmen spend all their time pursuing their goals and objectives and do not necessarily have the tools and knowledge to argue philosophically against the State's predatory and illegitimate claims on their productive labour through taxation.Just because someone is a very sucessful businessman does not mean he or she will be able or willing to articulate a coherent defence of property rights from an anti taxation position.That takes an acquisition of knowledge and great familiarity with the arguments against egalitarianism and this is not something necessarily the business world is cognizant of, familiar with or equipped to articulate.Businessmen are not ipso facto qualified to give an intellectual defence of freedom.That is the job for intellectuals and activists,writers,bloggers,indeed anyone who is prepared to enter the fray and campaign for liberty.It would be nice if they were as their contribution to the battle would have extra ballast and weight simply because they would be speaking from a position of direct knowledge and experience of the productive wealth acquisition principle but we cannot expect them to be experts in the defence thereof.The greatest defenders of liberty have been profesional writers and thinkers, not entrepreneurs.This is because writing is a profession in itself and a comletely different discipline from trade and business and an ability in one does not necessarily imply and ability in the other.The downside of this reality is that such intellectual defenders of liberty can be dismissed as mere armchair theorists and ivory tower intellectuals although the Left are quite happy to quote verse and chapter from the quitessential armchair theorist Marx who apparently never set foot inside a factory and spent most of his life in the British library! In his defence at least the latter did not rely on State handouts but instead the patient financial assistance of Engels albeit with rich irony with money sourced from the Capitalist system he sought to destroy, but I digress.

None of the above however is to excuse the craven capitulation of the business class to the anti capitalist sentiment abroad,the grovelling apologetic defence of Capitalism,the half hearted support of it, the damning it with faint praise, the obscene defence of it on altruistic grounds of all things.If business men cannot defend Capitalism properly they would do better to say nothing at all.

Until I understood the above regarding defence of Capitalism as a job for profesional writers and thinkers etc I was prone to get very annoyed with the so-called business community but I think I maligned them albeit unwittingly here.The one group of people I will not forgive however and who deserve the greates obloquoy is the so- called defenders of Capitalism ie the Conservatives.They have done more to betray our liberty and freedom in the last 200 years than any other group including the Socialists and the Labour Party.Their crime is unforgiveable because it is their job for which are paid out of the public purse to defend our freedoms and they have done more to destroy them as I say than any other group, political orgnisation and movement throughout history.Why do I say this? Well everyone knows the Socialists hate freedom and liberty and Capitalism and they only pretend to favour it if pushed but the Conservatives are supposed to be the defenders of Capitalism and their betrayal of it is so complete,absolute,comprehensive and total that no one could possibly claim that it is accidental or caused by some misunderstandng of the principles of Capitalism.It is deliberate and intentional.No mistake over such a wide span of generations and time could possibly be accidental.They know exactly what they are doing.It is systematic and conscious.To vote for them after such knowledge is to participate in one's own destruction and is an act of self immolation.

Here to interject a small but not insignificant point.I do not seek to decry intellectuals but only to point out that at least inthe UK there is a deep seated distrust of them particularly from the Right. The writer Anthony Burgess used to decry British mistrust of intellectuals and I know it has a long history but more recent times and events have given it momentum and a patina of justification.Conservatives sometimes appear militantly anti intellectual and I think this is because of recent history re intellectuals and how it lead to the bloodbaths of the 20th century via Communism and Socialism and Fascism which of course are all variants of collectivism as much as the Left seeks to distance itself from Fascism and purports to be its greatest enemy.Hitler lest anyone needs reminding called his party National Socialist.How the Left resent this being pointed out to them which is the very reason why it should be,regularly!So because of this lamentable record of intellectuals siding with totalitarian concepts the Right Conservatives wrongly concluded that they should abandon the field of intellectualism entirely which has only led to the Left by default, holding complete hegemony over it in all our institutions of learning and media.But the point is this,intellectual promulgation of ideas is work,productive activity if it takes the form of books written and sold,dvd broadcast and diseminated etc.Intellectual property is as valid as any other and should not be decried or apoloogised for.It is the food and ammuniton for the public and as such is essential.

So to conclude who should we go to for an unbreached intellectual philosophical comprehensive defence of liberty and Capitalism? There is only one writer I could in all honesty recommend and that is Ayn Rand.I am very familiar with her writings but would not in any way pretend to be in the same stratosphere as her in any way shape or form and and consider myself as nothing more than a pedestrian student of her work.There may be other defenders but I have never come across them.Ludvig von mises has given a partial defence of Capitalism.Frederik Basiat is a brilliant essayist and satirist of collectivist thinking but for a complete,closed universalist philosophical system comprehensively supported by rational argument no one has come close to Ayn Rand.It is to her writings alone I would direct any students of Capitalism.Even if afterwards people choose to dismiss her arguments they cannot really argue agsinst Capitalism without first familiarising themselves with its most brilliant and uncompromising defender.( please forgive appalling grammatical and spelling errors,they will be corrected in due course, or at least those I identify!)

Freedom - If You Want It

The 19th century writer Henry David Thoreau went to jail for not paying his taxes and wrote an essay about it entitled On Civil Disobedience.I hold no brief for him from a philosophical standpoint as his writing spawned the environmentalist movement of the 20 and 21st century but he is an interesting though sadly rare example of someone who understood the essential tyranny of taxation and the implicit violation of liberty it entails.Precious few others have taken a stand.Indirectly we have to come up to the present day almost with Ken Dodd who simply did not file his tax returns but he did not explicity consciously stand on principle in so doing although his comments suggested that he understood the prevailing evil of the system when he remarked that he kept his money around his house because he thought society was going to collapse in the 70s and he needed to take precautions against such a calamitious eventuality. He was spared jail only because he was practically universally loved as a national treasure and comic genius adding immeasurably to the joy of nations and the tyranical State dared not risk the wrath of the people by incarcerating him and therby possibly precipitating a mass revolt against such a tyranical tax system.Lester Pigott on the other hand being a less sympathetic character faced the full rigor of the law's wrath and was promptly jailed for similar act of 'tax evasion'.The State is sinuous and serpentine in its carefully selective deprivations of people's liberty.Other than that no other high profile case springs to mind although Phillip Green's heroic avoidance of tax has to be commended alongside Vodafone's.To be fair however, there are perhaps many more such fine examples except that I do not have further details myself.

Next time I will discuss how such abovementioned examples could be utilised into a more general and systematic mass resistance programme against the bully looter State.

Reflections On The Capitalist Revolution

Without wanting to be a Pain or a Burk it has to be said, a strong coffee does spur the Capitalist revolutionary impulse.All things become possible for the duration.Not that I am a hot head.I understand the Marxist thing about the long march through the institutions.But last night I was a thinking.If someone is mugging you and demanding your worldy goods (not that there are any other sort I might add) do your really have to launch into a philosophical discussion with him about the evil of plunder and the instigation of force against another to apropriate his or her wealth,or do you just hit him over the head with a blunt instrument? This is where I depart some what from the Randian Objectivists.I ask them, if the State is mugging you every day and looting your property do we really have to engage in a generation long philosophical re education programme to convince everyone that looting whether it be done by individuals or the State against others is immoral and evil,or do we just resist the State in a massive civil 'disobedience' non-compliance campaign? Seems a no-brainer to me.Of course where we depart is only regarding the means to achieving freedom, not the end ie freedom itself.