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Keith and stuff
12-04-2012, 10:16 PM
I clearly don't support this blog post. It is full of misinformation and lies. Of course, since there is a lot of quoting, there is also a lot of truth here - often, the passages being quoted. This isn't the 1st time a statist has mocked the FSP. There was a couple who moved to NH for the rural lifestyle. They wrote a couple Counter Punch hit pieces on the FSP. They decided NH was too free for them and left. It doesn't seem like this author lives in NH so I guess he would by moving away. Gonzo Times is known for posting satire and houmous blog posts.

The Free State Project: The Future of White America
December 4, 2012 9:00 pm
http://www.gonzotimes.com/2012/12/the-free-state-project/


When one takes a drive through Keene, New Hampshire, one can see the city is populated with a host of young white middle-class “anarchists” who call themselves the Free State Project.

What is the Free State Project? From their website:

“The Free State Project is an effort to recruit 20,000 liberty-loving people to move to New Hampshire. We are looking for neighborly, productive, tolerant folks from all walks of life, of all ages, creeds, and colors who agree to the political philosophy expressed in our Statement of Intent, that government exists at most to protect people’s rights, and should neither provide for people nor punish them for activities that interfere with no one else.”

What the website leaves out is that this group of bourgeoisie is also at the forefront of the “Anarcho” – Capitalist and ‘Voluntaryist’ movements.

As expected from a movement that bases the whole of its “radical” philosophy on Ron Paul throwbacks and small business angst, the sales pitch for this Murray Rothbard caricature of Jonestown reads:

“Are you frustrated at the loss of freedom and responsibility in America, while the growth of government and taxes continues unabated? Do you want to live in strong communities where your rights are respected, and people exercise responsibility for themselves and in their dealings with each other? If you answered “yes” to those questions, then the Free State Project has a solution for you.”

Their solution? Escape to the capitalist heaven of New Hampshire where there is no general sales tax and barely any pesky minorities. If that hasn’t convinced you let’s read some more reasons to move to New Hampshire from the FSP’s own ’101 Reasons to Move’:

“New Hampshire is one of only four states that places no helmet restrictions on motorcyclists…New Hampshire is one of the few states that very lightly regulates raw milk sales…New Hampshire is the only state with no laws restricting knife ownership… New Hampshire’s median household income of $63,942 is the highest in the country…New Hampshire has no capital gains tax…”

So if you like flailing unregulated knives, helmet-less, on a motorcycle you paid for with tax-free capital gains, then New Hampshire is the place for you!

If all of this still doesn’t convince you, they have explicit support from both Ron Paul and John “Captain Racism” Stossel.

Beyond the humor this is all a very sad expression of the core of the Voluntaryist movement. A movement of white middle-class males who feel alienated by taxes and poor people.

Analysis

Not much more needs to be said to prove the point about the Free State Project. They seem to explain it themselves. Anything redeemable about this wholly reactionary organization is easily flushed away in a hysteria of anti-state reductionism and bitcoins.

My real criticism lies in the audacity of the Free State Project to associate itself with Anarchism. The sheer idiocy of such a comparison is masked by an equally dumbfounding ignorance of those in the Free State Project to realize they are indeed not Anarchists. Being a rich privileged white male who escapes the confines of income taxes to realize his full rate of surplus value does not qualify one as an Anarchist. It qualifies one as a privileged schmuck who at most is a coffee shop ‘revolutionary’ trading bitcoins for raw milk.

Many will know I am a Marxist; however, I have a great respect for the Classical Anarchist thinkers and their contributions to anti-capitalist and anti-state theory. These modern day ‘Anarchists’ would leave Proudhon rolling in his grave.

A more glaring issue with this all is: what is the point? Most of the members of the Free State Project are of the heavily privileged classes of the petit bourgeois and I have yet to see any of them that come from an actual Proletarian background. They already enjoy the luxuries that the majority of Americans, little alone the vast majority of the world, ever enjoy. Furthermore, most do not have to suffer the alienating qualities of wage labor that plagues the working classes.

The Free State Project is really about the realization of a shitty ethical framework that prioritizes man’s relationship (or rather, subordination) with property higher than any concept of human liberation. They hide this framework behind lofty acronyms like the NAP (Non-aggression principle) which basically sanctions any sort of economic aggression against a “willing” subject and forbids any physical resistance as the utmost heresy towards the Gospel of Private Property. The failure here being that ‘free will’ is highly deterministic in a world where the means of subsistence are held privately and operated for a profit. Physical resistance becomes the only option other than utter ontological destruction; yet it also becomes the only thing that is more reprehensible to ‘Anarcho’ – Capitalists than the tenets of social ownership.

That's about 1/2 of it. Feel free to read the rest, or not. http://www.gonzotimes.com/2012/12/the-free-state-project/

AuH20
12-04-2012, 10:17 PM
Bourgeois? I can't think of a better compliment.

Odin
12-04-2012, 10:28 PM
How many people have moved to NH so far as part of this movement?

Pisces
12-04-2012, 10:39 PM
It's getting to be disturbing the way racial hostility is part of just about everything we hear from the left anymore.

Keith and stuff
12-04-2012, 11:03 PM
How many people have moved to NH so far as part of this movement?

Maybe just over 1,000 and my guess is that maybe just over 1,00 total free staters have been elected in NH. Though, some of the successful political types...

NewRightLibertarian
12-04-2012, 11:19 PM
What dreck. Not one word of substance is contained within this nonsense, just a bunch of personal attacks that make no sense.

Victor Grey
12-04-2012, 11:31 PM
Damn I hate socialist losers. I argue so much with the modern flavor of conservatives I forget just how much I loath these people. The article's writer reminds me.

The weak bitch in him is so thick you can smell it through the internet.

"Oh no the opulent middle class libertarians are moving to New Hampshire, please oh please why don't they give Little Loser all their 'bourgeois' money, because I'm pathetic and my worldview is centered upon perpetually being a whiny failure as a sentient being. Help me, oh help me I can't do anything by myself. Stop oppressing me by moving away."

NewRightLibertarian
12-04-2012, 11:35 PM
Damn I hate socialist losers. I argue so much with the modern flavor of conservatives I forget just how much I loath these people. The article's writer reminds me.

The weak bitch in him is so thick you can smell it through the internet.

"Oh no the opulent middle class libertarians are moving to New Hampshire, please oh please why don't they give Little Loser all their 'bourgeois' money, because I'm pathetic and my worldview is centered upon perpetually being a whiny failure as a sentient being. Help me, oh help me I can't do anything by myself. Stop oppressing me by moving away."

They really are just disgusting, envious, horrible people. Freedom is their arch enemy. It doesn't matter how many millions of people are murdered as a result of their beliefs because the ends (a totalitarian state lording over the masses) justify the means (millions of corpses)

WilliamShrugged
12-04-2012, 11:37 PM
god it only makes me want to move sooner

NewRightLibertarian
12-04-2012, 11:39 PM
god it only makes me want to move sooner

Pissing off people like the writer of this article is the icing on the cake. I enjoy how he says that the voluntaryists 'hate poor people' without providing one modicum of evidence.

Keith and stuff
12-04-2012, 11:41 PM
The weak bitch in him is so thick you can smell it through the internet.

"Oh no the opulent middle class libertarians are moving to New Hampshire, please oh please why don't they give Little Loser all their 'bourgeois' money, because I'm pathetic and my worldview is centered upon perpetually being a whiny failure as a sentient being. Help me, oh help me I can't do anything by myself. Stop oppressing me by moving away."

No way man. He was in the special forces for 30 years! In fact, he created the special forces special elite unit!
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1672986/Zak.png

FreeHampshire
12-05-2012, 02:42 PM
It is apparent that this guy has a poor grasp on Marxism & even a poorer understanding of 'classical anarchism.' For one, he spews "rassism" every other sentence, that peculiarly praises classical anarchist Proudhon. He must have skipped that whole "exterminate the Jews" part of his writings. And the fool has the nerve to lump the original anarchists together with Marx & Marxism. Every original Anarchist came to the conclusion that Marx was some sort of psychotic spy that ripped off their ideas and twisted them. Marx, being the moron he was, didn't even know what Proudhon meant when he said "property is theft." He couldn't comprehend the Mutualist philosophy.

Anyways, most of the article is just college-level race-baiting faux-revolutionary nonsense. Not even worth responding to. The author isn't an anarchist, and I would advise him to stop associating with us.

Anti Federalist
12-05-2012, 06:58 PM
To the author:

Sooooo, stay wherever you are.

Doesn't that solve the problem?

Not to have any pesky, white "liberty" folks around and underfoot, that should make things even easier in your worker's paradise, right?

What's that you say?

Leaving is not permitted?

Why?

Anti Federalist
12-05-2012, 07:00 PM
No way man. He was in the special forces for 30 years! In fact, he created the special forces special elite unit!
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1672986/Zak.png

LOL - A loudmouthed lily white Marxist complaining about white people.

Keith and stuff
12-05-2012, 11:27 PM
There is a lot of discussion about this on reddit. The original post is only at positive 1 right now, meaning his post isn't popular, especially considering the number of comments. http://www.reddit.com/r/Anarchism/comments/14aukk/critique_of_the_free_state_project/