The World of Haud Auctoritas

Haud auctoritas literally means 'no authority'; from these words is born haudauctorism. A philosophy, no, an entire social structure that liberates the sovereign individual from any authority that can be imposed on them.
Just imagine living in a world, where no one can demand anything from you, where no one can deny you the things you need to live. A world where you and only you make decisions that affect you. A world without masters, rulers, gods, bosses, hierarchies, laws, social norms, religious dogmas and collectivist stupidities of all kinds.

They call this chaos, but is their society not chaotic as well? Their governments have actually increased crime and murder; they give the worst thugs money and power, leaving the everyday individual to fend for him/herself; but how can the individuals even fend for themselves, when all means of producing necessities are centralized at the hands of the thugs. This chaos is solely in the best interest of criminals and monsters. Our 'chaos' is in the best interest and is the will of the people.

You ask what is the meaning of our symbol? Why have we chosen it over any other? The symbol, if unknown to you is a snowdrop in a yellow-orange circle with a red outline and the words "Mos Publicus" written right under the snowdrop. The snowdrop signifies, in my country, the arrival of spring (warm life) and the end of winter (cold death). The orange I associate with utopian socialism and the dark red represents the blood that is shed by the ruling classes to drown our ideas. Mos Publicus means "will of the people"; it means that utopia and freedom is what the people want and have wanted.

The revolution's goals are clear to us now:
1. Abolition and rejection of the concept of land ownership
2. Abolition of money, capital and the state
3. Adoption of a moneyless, barter, trade and gift based economy
4. Decentralization of the means of production at the hands of everyone
5. Decentralization of the means of transportation, communication and all infrastructure in general at the hands of the masses under democratic management
6. Minimization of the need for markets
7. The rejection of all constitutions and social contracts not written in the presence of at least 80% of the population
8. The adoption of the right to voluntary associate/dissociate with any contract or constitution
9. The abolition of social norms, social roles, intersubjective consensus and all authority
10. Decentralization of the means of conflict at the hands of everyone

Saturday, November 14, 2009

Contract(ual) Propertarianism (CP)

One idea 'roaming' in my head is that of contract propertariansim. It is an idea of what physical property really is (apart from a cloud of molecules) and how to manage it. There are a few points around which CP revolves:

1. All property is common property in reality:

Technically true, philosophically false. When you think about it, one individual and his family/supporters cannot fight off billions of people, if they were to try and take his/her property. This is not an argument for democracy, it is reality. The bigger group has a better chance of subduing the smaller one. Therefore, all property really belongs to all of humanity.

2. A person is entitled to own that which he and the people around him have agreed to:

From point #1, we can conclude that all 'private' property is really socialist property, where the property is 'created' by a mutual agreement between individuals. Each individual views the ownership of his property and the property claims of others as beneficial to him, hence why the property claims become legitimate. They would be illegitimate otherwise. Property is now mutually beneficial and agreed upon, meaning everyone benefits. The socialist part of this is that the property claim is collectively 'judged'.

3. All property agreements are contracts; mainly social ones:

If property is created by mutual consent between individuals, then this means it is nothing more and nothing less than a contract. Maybe not a physical one, but a contract nonetheless. In an anarchist society, a contract must be purely voluntary. That means no compulsion to enter, no force to maintain, you can always opt out and those who are not in the contract are not affected by it. As soon as a contract is involuntary, it is null and void. Same goes for property contracts.

In a property contract, all individuals who view the property claim as mutually beneficial and legitimate have 'signed' the contract and agreed to stay off said property. However, those who have not 'signed' the contract are not in any way obligated to follow it, or consider the claim legitimate. They have not agreed to the terms of the contract and the property is still available to them. This is not how typical propertarianism has been defined, where a property claim is universally legitimate if the proprietor has acquired the property in a 'legitimate' way. But legitimacy is in the eye of the judge, or in this case, the individuals involved in the claim. I believe this is better than the judge being some macho philosophers, who say this and that is legitimate because of some mystical link between an ego and a cloud of molecules a distance away.

4. Contract(ual) propertarianism fits liberty better than most other types of propertarianism:

First reason, unlike most other forms of propertarianism, CP is not based on arbitrary philosophical and/or rhetorical claims. CP is based on an agreement beween individuals at the time of or after the property claim; not on a prescriptive judgement of what is legitimate by a few philosophers before the claim.

Second reason, CP does not invovle the threat of coercion or violence. Since CP is based on a voluntary agreement, from which all parties see benefit, there is no (need for) any coercion or violence. There is not even need for violation consequences: why would anyone violate a contract, which they signed, seeing benefit from folowing the guidelines of that contract? Unless it some naive Stalinist who wants to toy with people, agree to stay off their pasture land, and then trample on it to make them angry for his amusement, I don't see a reason for one to violate a contract like this one.

The only other type of propertarianism I would say is compatible with liberty would be egoist propertarianism. Although rather vulgar and violent, it was actually the foundation for contractual propertarianism, which is merely EP without violence, secrecy and disorder.