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Samizdata, derived from Samizdat /n. - a system of clandestine publication of banned literature in the USSR [Russ.,= self-publishing house]
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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
– Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)
It is a measure of the incoherence of Marxist analysis that fascism is regarded as ‘late capitalism’ when in reality late capitalism, when we get there, will clearly have resulted in libertarianism
– Perry de Havilland
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away
-Phillip K. Dick
Libertarians do not seek chaos but rather a more spontaneous order
– Perry de Havilland, said at a ‘Brian’s Friday’ event
Turning to Communism for fear of Fascism is like suicide for fear of death
– Perry de Havilland
The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.
– Justice Louis D. Brandeis, US Supreme Court Justice,1929
The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else
– Frederic Bastiat
Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
-George Washington
Libertarian thought is the scythe of the future’s cutting edge
-Perry de Havilland
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Who Are We? 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.
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