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10/03/2003 Archived Entry: "The totally uncompromising libertarian community"

WHOTTA HOOT. All my life I've heard, "You've got to learn to compromise." "Your expectations are too high." "You're too radical."

Now, because I support the Free State Project, I'm being accused, along with a whole lot of anarcho-pals, of abandoning my principles in order to compromise with, legitimize, and even strengthen, the state. I keep insisting I'm not actually going to move to New Hampshire so I can take up v*ting -- that I will continue my commitment to non-coercive cultural change, redoubled and put into local action. But who'd listen to such a debauched and compromised soul as I?

All this proves is that libertarians haven't yet settled such pressing quesions as how many Ayn Rands can dance on the head of a cigarette or who built the canals of Mars.

I have a challenge for the 100-percent principled among us. Here are the specs:

• Design a workable, real-world plan to found a freedom-oriented community.
  
• It doesn't have to be as big as the FSP, as long as it involves a large and diverse enough group to offer reasonable self-sufficiency.
  
• Describe how you will recruit only totally committed libertarian participants, with no stain of statism in their views.
  
• Describe how you will ensure that, in carrying out the plan, no participant will ever compromise on any hardcore libertarian principle at any time.
  
• No organizer or participant should ever support, or compromise with, or submit to any government at any stage of the plan, from inception to execution.
  
• All activities at all times in the organization and the resulting community must be 100 percent voluntary, right down to second, third, and n-generation descendents of the original participants.
  
• Make sure this plan is fully feasible to carry out in the present world (no colonizing the asteroids -- yet -- please).
  
• Include a brief description of your leadership/organizing team, their qualifications, and how they intend to bring this plan to fruition.
  

Submit your plan on The Claire Files message boards, General Discussion forum, topic header "The Uncompromising Community."

Posted by Claire @ 07:58 PM CST
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