Updated MLL War Pamphlet
Here’s an effort to update Sam Konkin’s classic MLL pamephlet War or Liberty: The Real Choice.
Times of war often bring smears to those who dissent. Liberty is said to be under attack and war critics its detractors. Necessity allegely dictates that government “defend” your freedom. This is a false choice between preserving freedom and war you have been given.
Where has the real threat to freedom often come from in wartime? The state!
Just look at American history.
Civil War brought the military draft on both sides and Linclon’s 1861 suspension of habeas corpus.
World war 1 saw censorship, conscription, and the Palmer raids of 1919.
World War 2 continued conscription and left us the legacy of Japanese American concentration camps.
Cold war produced the Kent State shootings and peacetime draft
Wartime state enroachment upon liberty continues today with the unending “war on terror’s” Patriot Act and illegal NSA wiretapping.
Think of the above as the first page of the brochure with the second page below.
What can you do to resist the state’s warmaking? The Movement of the Libertarian Left has some suggestions for interested individuals.
Tax Rebellion (not just “avoidance”)
Draft Resistance
Smuggling (increase Free Trade!)
Wage and Price Control Breaking
Censorship Evasion
Networking with like-minded freedom fighters and peace activists
Disseminating the revelations of Revisionist History that expose manipulations to drag us into war after war.
Let go of the false dichotomy between peace and security. Enter the agora (true, open free market) via Counter-Economics. Educate yourself and your friends about the anarchist alternative to statism.
My approach was to take the best from the old brochure and slim it down.
Natasha | Libertarian Left, War and Peace
[...] Nick has posted some draft text of a proposed update to the old MLL anti-war pamphlet to both his blog and MLL Online. Discuss. [...]
Will your “Revisionist History ” include associating with those Nazi anti-semitic people that Sam was hovering around with ?
I didn’t know that Sam Konkin had ever associated with Nazi anti-semitic people before reading this comment. Are the people you’re talking about the folks at the Institute for Historical Review?
I’ve got no contacts with anyone there nor do I work with anybody who’d qualify as a Holocaust denier.
I am interested in revisionist history that challenges the orthodox line on World War 2 but I don’t consider denying that the Holocaust ever happened to be part of that.