Recent content by dmvianna

I can't stress this enough. If you're embarrassed of your values, you're not convincing anyone they're good. You are not sneaking Libertarianism into the political debate. Either you raise your voice and state your principles unambiguously, or they already won inside your brain.

Please allow me to introduce myself. I'm Brazilian, have lived through hyperinflation and asset confiscation during the 1980-90s, living in Australia for 20 years now. Absolutely YES! The establishment will retweet in unison alongside their dread and sneer, attracting the attention of everyone...

Both @Rob and @Conza's replies have good suggestions -- thank you. I disagree though with answering defensively. Like "Oh, but the State didn't do better". This doesn't inform about where to go from here, and neither it does convince that our approach is feasible at all. Again, I'm sharing my...

I never ever heard of Mises Brasil. I bet they are funded, though. 😅 On “Left wing” and “Right wing”, I agree with @Conza that these terms should not limit our thinking. There sure are more dimensions of politics to think about. However sometimes they do help conversation given context. You...

Bakunin, if he could be taken as an example of Left libertarian, was explicitly against imposed authority and in favour of freely accepted authority. An apprentice freely recognises the authority of his teacher. A slave is forced to accept the authority of his owner. I would be curious about...

Debating with unambiguous terms should be. Not necessarily for the socialists’ sake, but definitely for the onlookers’ sake. Given my background, I would have liked to find Rothbard before Bakunin after being prompted by Johnny Rotten.

Conza’s post is very enlightening in that it separates exonyms (what others call a group) from endonyms (what a group calls itself). That’s always a source of confusion. Let me add more: Most of the above applies to people coming to libertarianism from the Right. But if you accept people coming...

Hi all. About to sleep here, so I’ll attempt to be brief. I grew up in Brazil. Mum was a journalist during the military dictatorship, used to buy newspapers with cooking recipes in the frontpage (replacing censored news) or even with blanks (no time to re-diagram before printing). So I grew up...