Last year, the Supreme Court of India asked for the reasons about why the government allowed the ruin of food grains in governmental stock facilities and go-downs while many millions in India were suffering hunger and malnutrition. According to newspapers, a fifth of India’s population remains undernourished and some 3,000 children die each day from hunger-related causes while around 6 million tons of food grains were ruined in the year 20121 . Obviously, it was a clear indication that governmental intervention in the market causes extreme failures and loss. However, instead of learning this clear lesson from the situation, the government and the socialist bureaucrats of India suggested furthermore interventionist approach towards the issue and in 2013; the government announced their will to pass the Food Security Bill in the parliament. The food security bill suggests that every citizen has a right to get food (as a privilege of being a citizen of India) and the government has a duty to ensure that nobody is suffering lack of food or hunger. In other words, food security bill suggests that food is a human right. While this bill is still hanging in the parliament because of the uproar of opposition parties …Read the Rest
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Socialism is Existence of Government
One of my friends was contemplating about the “nature of Indian Economy and Role of Government” and he concluded that Indian economy is “mixed” but its intent is socialistic. I admire his article for the fact that he is beginning to analyze things with better perspective. However, I also realize that he is wrong if he believes that there can be a free economy in presence of the government. I explained Mixed Economy as the “Middle Vice” in one of my previous articles that I wrote a few years ago. The idea of Mixed economy or Fabian Socialism comes from the misunderstanding of the Aristotelian Nicomachean Ethics that suggests that out of the two extremes, the middle path is preferable. However, the middle path is not always right and often, it is worse than the two extremes. Issue of mixed economy is the same, it is the worst path. If Individual Freedom (Capitalism) is Good, if Socialism is Bad, then Mixed Economy is ugly1 . While I appreciate his article to the extent that he was right about analyzing nature of Indian economy and government, reading his article was painful. Let me tell you why. While this blogger is expressively …Read the Rest
Why Minarchy Can’t Work?
(While Ayn Rand was strongly against the idea of collectivism, she failed to realize that the sort of political system she advocated, which is also known as minarchy, is fundamentally no different then any other form of collectivism. This is the reason why Minarchy cannot work in a world of free individuals and the only applicable solution to sustain individual liberty is Anarchocapitalism or Voluntaryism. In her Book, “Anthem,” the hero of Ayn Rand, Equality 7-2521, also called as The Unconquered, who later took the name Prometheus, asks himself, “But I still wonder how it was possible, in those graceless years of transition, long ago, that men did not see whither they were going, and went on, in blindness and cowardice, to their fate. I wonder, for it is hard for me to conceive how men who knew the word “I” could give it up and not know what they lost. But such has been the story, for I have lived in the City of the damned, and I know what horror men permitted to be brought upon them.” That transition started with the call and support for Minarchy, which ultimately will lead to nothing but extreme forms of collectivism, …Read the Rest
The Case for a Voluntaryist Society
The establishment of a few axiomatic truths is required to make rational inferences from observed activity. Examples of these include: no object can be in two places at the same time, one and one make two, and of course “A” is “A”. It would seem, however, that an additional claim has made its way to this list of self-evident truths with little conscious awareness; the necessity of the State. Of all the commonly accepted truisms, this one is among the least scrutinized and the most dubious All other axioms may be verifiable from direct observation. You are you (the philosophic equivalent of “A is A”) can be verified by looking in the mirror. One and one make two may be verified by taking an individual stone and placing it next to another. However, how do we verify the necessity of the state? The first response may be “well it has always been there!” This of course is a non-sequitur as the longevity of the state has nothing to do with its validity. Perhaps other examples of tribal or archaic societies will be cited to show the state as being necessary to protect us from such a base or savage lifestyle. …Read the Rest
