A blog for people with a critically rational individualist perspective. We are developing the social individualist meta-context for the future. From the very serious to the extremely frivolous... lets see what is on the mind of the Samizdata people.
Samizdata, derived from Samizdat /n. a system of clandestine publication of banned literature in the USSR
[Russ.,= self-publishing house]
War is the common harvest of all those who participate in the division and expenditure of public money, in all countries. It is the art of conquering at home: the object of it is an increase of revenue; and as revenue cannot be increased without taxes, a pretence must be made for expenditures. In reviewing the history of the English government, its wars, and taxes, an observer, not blinded by prejudice, nor warped by interest would declare, that taxes were not raised to carry on wars, but that wars were raised to carry on taxes.
-Thomas Paine, Rights of Man
The Samizdata people are a bunch of sinister and heavily armed globalist illuminati who seek to infect the entire world with the values of personal liberty and several property. Amongst our many crimes is a sense of humour and the intermittent use of British spelling.
We are also a varied group made up of social individualists, classical liberals, whigs, libertarians, extropians, futurists, 'Porcupines', Karl Popper fetishists, recovering neo-conservatives, crazed Ayn Rand worshipers, over-caffeinated Virginia Postrel devotees, witty Frédéric Bastiat wannabes, cypherpunks, minarchists, kritarchists and wild-eyed anarcho-capitalists from Britain, North America, Australia and Europe.
The Samizdatistas are:
Editors
Perry de Havilland
Adriana Lukas
Dale Amon
Principal contributors
Guy Herbert
Paul Marks
Brian Micklethwait
Jonathan Pearce
Michael Jennings
Samizdata Illuminatus
Contributors
Alice Bachini-Smith
David Carr
Philip Chaston
Antoine Clarke
Jackie D
Robert Clayton Dean
Midwesterner
Alex Singleton
Natalie Solent
James Waterton
Scott Wickstein
Resting Contributors
Findlay Dunachie
Gabriel Syme
Hillary Johnson
Frank McGahon
Gustave La Joie
Christopher Pellerito
Sarah Fitz-Claridge
Kevin Connors
Andy Duncan
Malcolm Hutty
Natalija Radic
Dave Shaw
Walter Uhlman
Samizdata.net editors are God and God moves in mysterious ways. If you have an article, comment, rant or smart-arse rejoinder that you would like to contribute to Samizdata.net, e-mail it to us and we might publish it suitably edited. Or not.
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