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Ancapraxis

r/Ancapraxis

To a better future

Created Aug 9, 2014

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Praxis means action.

It's time for us to take action, to unify theory and reality and put our ideas into action.

Yes, we can build an ancap region in some place that the state does not yet exist, or peacefully and effectively resist and avoid the state for those strategies that wish to stay in place in a statist society and seek change from within.

This sub exists to analyze praxis methods and means, to track examples of the same, and to discuss praxis in practice.

Welcome.

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"Strategies for a Libertarian Victory" - Murray Rothbard

Discord server: https://discord.gg/DSrgqyW

Praxis-focused subreddits:

r/Seasteading - Create stateless enclaves on the only stateless places on earth: the oceans.

Seasteading is focused on the enclavist-strategy for change; move people outside existing government jurisdictions and setup a new free society. Only two non-state controlled regions exist, fortunately both of them are extremely large: 1. Sea. 2. Space.

r/Polycentric_Law - Create stateless law.

Or, the term I like better: decentralized law. Decentralized law needs a lot of work and development and specialists to contribute to it.

r/Bitlaw - A programming project to facilitate the use of stateless law.

This subreddit is focused on building an decentralized electronic platform for polycentric law, make it easy to use, to trade law with people, buy and sell, and edit contracts with others. It goes along with the enclavist strategy, which will need means of law production absent the state monopoly apparatus of law-production.

r/Bitcoin - Create, use stateless money.

Yes, bitcoin is an instance of ancapraxis, putting into action the idea that no one should control money, and creating a money that cannot be politically controlled. Helping build bitcoin companies or further it in any way is a legitimate form of ancapraxis.

r/Cryptoanarchy - Using technology to route around the state.

Technology has proven itself a strong ally of libertarian ideas and ideals, and this is because it always empowers the individual. A single idea and a program created Uber and Lyft, a new business model resulted, and the state-sponsored monopoly of taxi-services is being strongly challenged by an idea made real. So too, bitcoin is part of this strategy. There are likely many more areas where we can build technological challenges to the state.

r/Libertarian - Libertarian party involvement, aka: engagement with the poitical process and political education of the masses.

I consider the libertarian party to be two separate strategies combined into a single effort. Firstly, the libertarian party exists as a means of hacking the US political process. Candidates who play by the rules should be able to get large audiences for their ideas by engaging in debates with politicians and citizens. Ron Paul has spearheaded this strategy and brought a very great many in the libertarian movement lately with his successes in idea dissemination via the political election process.

However, RP probably realized he wouldn't actually be handed the presidency, and that's a good thing. There are some in the LP that seek actual political power--this is a strategy for change that Rothbard set in motion decades ago, but we see clearly now that it's both unlikely to result in change, and even if we did get libertarian-friendly politicians into political power they'd likely be corrupted by the process of holding power, which is anathema to a philosophy built on ending the exercise of such power.

For this reason, the LP movement I consider a minarchist training ground for ancaps, and thus a fertile space for the recruitment of minarchists to true anarcho-capitalist refinement in ideology by helping these people to first recognize and then cast off of their minarchism, such as many of us have done already.

r/Agorism/

Created by Samuel Edward Konkin III, agorism focuses on counter-economics, a way of making the state irrelevant through economic action that routes around the state, etc.

r/Spacesteading

If all else fails, including seasteading, then spacesteading will be the final libertarian frontier. One thing is true for sure, you can escape the state if you simply build a spaceship capable of interstellar travel and blast off at maximum speed--you will never be caught.

However, long before it comes to that we will colonize earth orbit, the LaGrange points, and various orbits around the sun and nearby planets.

Orbiting power stations can be built using concentrated solar energy, combined with the building materials that are commonplace floating around in outer-space, enough to build the equivalent landmass of 3,000 earths.

And we have the tech to do it now. What remains is the will and the money.

Genetic Design

Improve the availability of technologies to Augment Intelligence on the premise that intelligence favors liberty. https://youtu.be/dn4LaowsGiA?t=1h4m35s

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