Theme: Property

EXISTENTIALLY POSSIBLE ANARCHY

The only Anarchy that can exist is a condition of Sovereignty. Under Sovereignty one can have possessions, but not property. One can have possession but not ownership. But Sovereignty requires relative invulnerability. So to create sovereignty we form alliances with others who desire sovereignty by the exchange of reciprocal insurance. To resolve conflicts between us without violating sovereignty, we can only appeal to the universal decidability of natural law. We accumulate decisions under natural law in the common law. Under reciprocal insurance, natural law, and common law’s norms, we leave behind possessions and create ownership and property. By the combination of sovereignty, exchange of insurance, common law, and the accumulation of decisions, and openness of the contract for reciprocal defense of sovereignty, we create that order we call sovereignty for ourselves. But slaves are more profitable than Enemies. Serfs are more profitable than slaves. citizens are more profitable than serfs. So to increase our defenses, increase our dominion, and increase our wealth, we extend sovereignty, to the citizenry, thus creating a condition of liberty. one possesses sovereignty by ability. one possesses liberty by permission. One possesses freedom out of utility. One possesses subsidy (redistribution) out of charity. There is only one source of sovereignty: the organized application of violence to prevent all alternatives. There is only one source of liberty: the permission of those who fight for sovereignty. There is only one reason that the sovereign grant liberty: profitability. There are only one means of demanding liberty from the sovereign: enfranchisement through reciprocal insurance by violence, or by raising the cost of the absence of liberty through the organized application of violence. Wishful thinking is just lying to yourself and others. That’s the domain of religion. In the domain of truth, there is only one source of sovereignty, liberty, freedom, and subsidy: the organized application of violence.

Curt Doolittle

The Propertarian Institute

Kiev, Ukraine.