Ep. 2036 Michael Malice on How to Talk About Anarchism

Michael Malice, whose Anarchist Handbook became a sensation in 2020, joins me to talk about the ideas it contains and how best to communicate them. Subscribe to the Tom Woods Show:

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[randyosborne]

Both Parties have sold the good folks of this country down the river.

[NemoLiberty]

The nuke question is something I would love to see fleshed out. Its easily the number #1 critique of anarchism that I can think of

[gwydion]

re 18:00, very Spooner of you, but also a flaw with the constitution is the damn language. It has changed or has been changed, inevitably, in order to, even with the "good political class", gets jacked up.

[stantheoneandonly]

I gained a ton of respect for Beck years ago when he was in Fox and released a segment for legalizing marijuana. He's only gotten better since.

[bradwatson]

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground. — Thomas Jefferson
I’d rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it. — Thomas Jefferson
If you can’t trust people with freedom, how can you trust them with power? — Anonymous

[gaulindidier]

I always use the term, ''building towards a stateless society" and people react much better than saying ''anarchy''. There's an association towards adolescence that people are just repulsed by. The Russell conjugation around the term anarchy is pretty much hard coded at this point.

[bennyhogan]

Wouldn’t you just end up with feudalism, with the rich being the rulers & paying off the poor?

[mattseaton]

What's up with the subtitles? Youtube must be trolling them.

[DavidM-tgoy]

If this COVID insanity, along with its attendant runaway statism and collectivism, hasn't primed humanity for libertarian anarchism a la Rothbard, Walter Block, Doug Casey, and Hans Hermann-Hoppe, NOTHING WILL! This experience has been a NIGHTMARE!

[Ones_Complement]

What political office is Tom Woods running for?

[orangesox]

Well, how can we convert people? Give them little bits at a time and use our "dollars" sparingly, or go all in, or some other tactic?

[moparbenny]

Okay I will sign up for the big announcement, however, it better not be another puppet. I can picture you making a Michael Malace puppet.

[robertrosenthal]

isn't david friedman still alive? was he asked ot read hios own essay?

[emilybh]

Why not start off using "Voluntaryist" or "Voluntarist"? That way you don't have to open the can of worms about how the definition of the words anarchy and anarchists are being changed to eliminate words describing concepts of how some civilized societies used to live back in Medieval times and before WITHOUT rulers and without police and prisons - because the overlords of today don't want anyone to even imagine there ever was a time where people lived truly freely.

[joecoolmccall]

He says he's more a Randian anarchist...but I wasn't aware Ayn Rand was an anarchist.
Did I miss something?

[mrsleep]

I'd love to see how long Michael Malice would last in an anarchic country. Hope he has a lot of guns if he gets his wish.

[mistermusturd]

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[gwydion]

I know they're all fantastical/fictional, but even with something as simple as Asimov's 3 laws for AI/Robotics, aka, hard-coded definitions of rules and limitations, everything he imagines, and those who piggyback on this theme, everything goes bananas due to a misinterpretation of them, or applying them out of context, etc.

[dnnable]

Michael's contract argument is so odd. Obviously the old bag has to pay what she has agreed to. To say otherwise is a rejection of property rights. Why does he keep using it and why doesn't anyone call him out on it?

[chadfkennedy]

28:10 similar to how Styx keeps the '666' in his username -- he doesn't want anything to do with people who would use his screen-name of 'Styxhexenhammer666' as a justification to disregard preemptively what he has to say