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The Case for Full Reserve Banking

Economics · by BirdTheWord303

Introduction Fractional reserve banking has long been treated as a neutral—or even indispensable—feature of modern financial systems. Yet upon closer examination, it is best understood as a system of…

Property: What Is It?

Theory, Property · by PRIB

“A conflict is only possible if goods are scarce. Only then will there arise the need to formulate rules that make orderly—conflict free—social cooperation possible. … And outside the Garden of Eden,…

A Genetic, Linguistic, and Imperial History of Iran

History · by libertybro

Most history gets taught as a relay race. One civilization runs its leg, collapses, and hands the baton to whoever conquers it next, a new people, a new language, a new population, starting over from…

How clearly defined is the NAP?

Theory · by libertytanuki

The following text is an extract of a speech from libertarian thinker Juan Ramón Rallo in a libertarian think tank Incomplete specification It is not completely specified in various fundamental…

The Road To Serfdom Under Islam

Theocracy · by libertybro

Why a global caliphate would be the most catastrophic form of statism ever attempted The radical Islamist doesn’t just want to govern a nation. He wants to govern existence itself: every transaction,…

Yes, Mao Zedong Had Sex With Minors

History, Communism · by WitheredSummer

Introduction In December 2025, PraxBen wrote a thread on X¹ where, drawing from multiple historical sources, he made the claim that communist dictator Iosif Stalin held a sexual relationship with a…

Taxation is 100% Armed Robbery, Not Just Theft

Taxation, Taxes · by TearGaming

So we all know taxation is a mandatory act of force that the government tends to utilize to hold us at ransom in order to provide welfare to the Somalian fraud parasites who literally do nothing but…

Second thoughts?

Politics · by JW

There are few things as tragic as a hopelessly romantic ideologue being confronted with the failure of their ultimate utopia, the failure of the policies which they had fought tooth and nail to…

A Justification for The Libertarian Property Theory

Property Rights · by Ancapdoggo

Made a collection of some of the best arguments for the Libertarian property theory a little while ago so i decided to post it here as well: To understand the libertarian theory of property and how…

Anime is garbage

Discursive · by Yermaw

It is by my view that anime as a medium is sometimes a poor one. Often, its stylistic choices are in bad taste by removing the detail and thus the importance of many human features and overly…

The Ethics and Contradictions of Intellectual Property

Intellectual Property, Theory · by WitheredSummer

Introduction Intellectual property (IP) law is a near universal feature of the modern world. Through international bodies like the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and treaties such as…

The downfall of 'classical' libertarianism.

Theory · by TThomas_TThe_Privatized_TTank_Engine

Since Rothbard’s contributions, libertarianism has been the go to name for a radical, extreme version of the Austrian tradition. However, it is fraudulent to say that the term has modernly been…