Welcome to the carnival! Every month, market anarchist blogs contribute a collection of thoughts and ideas about how much the government sucks and how much better markets are. I’m hosting it this month, so let’s get started:

Leveraging Activism by Dave from No Third Solution

This submission makes an observation about the way that activists go about pursuing their goals. Most of them tend to try to preserve the environment via government, when government is actually a barrier to the preservation of nature. If they could be shown the inherently violent nature of government based solutions, perhaps they’ll start using other means of preservation, such as market based mechanisms.

“But you support the State by your own actions!” By Francois from Check Your Premises

Francois fights back at the people who say “if you don’t like it, leave”, by arguing that anarchists not only have nowhere else to go, but they want to stay and change the societies they live in. He correctly points out that it is not hypocritical to speak out against an evil while refusing to leave its place of origin.

It’s almost like we’re expected to accept the state of things and never to push for real change. I’m sure most people understand that as time goes by, better ways of doing things are discovered, so obviously there must be room for change!

The Nature of the Beasts By Eric Sundwall

Eric points out the stupidity of “public utility” ideas, where supposedly anything that provides an ‘everyday necessity’ to the public at large can be a public utility. So even though many people don’t use public water services, public cable TV channels, public landline telecommunications, they ‘should’ still pay the government to do it anyway.

All we seem to hear are irrelevant arguments about how much money the “big evil corporations” are making, with little care for the greedy tax mongers who just create an increased taxation burden for everybody. He also links to some interesting Mises articles about price gouging and ‘proper regulation’.

Finally, my own submission  is just below this post: There is a difference between society and government

I believe the next edition will be over at The Radical Libertarian, so that concludes this months market anarchist carnival and I hope you found it interesting.