So I'm a communist. Spank me. The theory is that instead of working for self you work for no one, which means everyone. As an opposite to capitalism, it fits. From for self to for other. From each to his ability, to each to his need. Push it further:...

The interesting thing in both More and Machiavelli is the difference between the virtuous and the effective, between real and ideal. Ie not to reconcile them to themselves, and decide on an interpretation; but to see that they were saying there is an...

In lieu of the authority of science one could criticize a Kantian nihilism and prefer a medieval sort of theist solipsism. Rice/Grafton: power is concentrated in the monarchy as a result of the emergence of infantry in warfare (a result of the...

The necessity of govt is the necessity of property. This is the mistake in the harm principle. And thus the environmental concern with nature apart from man requires govtl power: land cannot be owned (by us) and protected (from us). The...

On the question of non slavery being hole in property and being equality, the point is that what is not owned is the person. A person cant subsume (consume) a person. Every one is someone. The only hole in property, the unpossessable, is the key to...