I just checked the stats. Red Liberty is surprisingly about as popular now as it was when it was active, even though I haven’t updated the blog in nearly a year. I feel I owe the readers something of an explanation here for my absence, some indication as to my current opinions, and a statement …
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Rojava, Desert Flower (a poem)
Rojava, desert flowerYou emerge from the great stormAs the Romans were to AmericaSo you are to the world of tomorrow Aristotle lauds youThe good life is made real hereJefferson tips to you his hatThe great ward republic, bastion of libertyMarx nods to you his headThe political system of a truly free societyBakunin smiles when he …
A Moral and Philosophical Justification for Voting Third Party in the 2020 Election
This is the second part of a two-part article about the Howie Hawkins/ Angela Walker campaign. Having outlined in the first part some friendly criticisms I had of the Hawkins/ Walker campaign I felt it was my duty to explain to the public why I have decided to vote third party in such an important …
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Some Friendly Criticisms of Howie Hawkins’ Slogans, Who I Will Vote For in the 2020 Election
This is the first part of a two-part article about the Howie Hawkins/ Angela Walker campaign. Hawkins is the Green Party candidate who I have decided to vote for in the 2020 presidential election. This first part, lists some of the criticisms I have of his campaign. The second part is a general defense of …
The Age of Mass Surveillance Will Not Last Forever | WIRED
The power to end it is in your hands. — Read on http://www.wired.com/story/the-age-of-mass-surveillance-will-not-last-forever/
Red Liberty Manifesto (0.1a)
The political attitudes of this blog, Red Liberty, can quite easily be divined from its name: Red (socialism) Liberty (libertarianism). The libertarian socialist tradition of course is very diverse and historically significant. Even the word ‘libertarian’ was originally a word coined by a French anarchist communist who couldn’t use the word “anarchist” because of France’s …
A Leftist Defense of The American Project
Recently I read that the government of the People's Republic of China called the United States a “failed experiment”. Is it true that the United States of America really is a failed experiment? To a large extent I must confess with great sadness that this is true. Indeed many numerous writings on my blog have …
A Call for The Formation of Popular Assemblies To Solve The Problem of Police Brutality and a Jeffersonian Defense of The Protest’s Excesses
This is part one of my "Reflections on Current Events: June 2020" I owe my readers an apology for my recent absence. I try to keep my writings up to date when big things are happening in the world, and at present very big things are certainly happening. There is no need to digress on …
The Libertarian Case For Making Masks Mandatory In Public
I have come to the unfortunate conclusion that, as a general rule, most people are idiots. They are all too keen to talk, as if they are experts, on issues they know absolutely nothing about. In our information age, especially right now during the global COVID-19 pandemic, such a phenomenon, while necessarily tolerated, can be …
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