Ayn Rand famously argued that racism is the most primitive and crudest form of collectivism. In her view, judging someone by their ethnic or cultural origin instead of their individual character is a regression to tribal thinking where the person disappears behind the group. From a moral individualist standpoint, the…

Reusing the Same Analytical Structure With New Names and a More Local Example In the initial text, the argument explored how collectivist identities, even irrational ones like racial tribalism, may sometimes function as forces of fragmentation rather than fusion. The original framework examined a commune splitting into two, then each…

A Counterargument to Rand’s Aphorism in a World of Global Uniformity Ayn Rand, a key figure in 20th-century individualist libertarian thought, famously claimed that “racism is the most primitive and crudest form of collectivism.” In her view, judging a person by their racial identity rather than by their character, intellect,…

Some thinkers do not construct grand abstract systems. Instead, they illuminate our most concrete contradictions. Jean-Claude Michéa belongs to this category. He has become an essential reference for understanding the moral, cultural and political crisis of the contemporary West. Not because he offers a new ideology, but because he exposes…

Kant’s concept of unsocial sociability (ungesellige Geselligkeit) is one of the most illuminating ideas for understanding the dynamics of human evolution. It describes a fundamental tension in human nature: we are driven to live with others, yet we are equally driven to distinguish ourselves, to compete, to assert our uniqueness.…

Contemporary politics is structured around a paradox that few people understand.On one side, Curtis Yarvin argues that we live under the rule of a diffuse ideological super-structure he calls the Cathedral — a decentralized, unelected network that shapes culture, morality, and public policy.On the other side, Murray Rothbard insists that…

A strange trend has taken root within a portion of today’s anarcho-capitalist movement: some claim that the only “realistic” path to anarcho-capitalism is through an initial minarchist phase. According to this view, we must first shrink the state, then clean it up, then wait for private institutions to gradually outcompete…

Every country on Earth today has a centralized economy. The illusion of capitalism ended the moment every government claimed a monopoly over money, trade, and production. Whether it’s called “monetary policy,” “fiscal stimulus,” or “public investment,” the result is the same: the economy is directed from the top. Central banks…

There’s a certain irony in how the modern “libertarian mainstream” has been built on men who, in truth, were defenders of the State. Milton Friedman and Thomas Sowell chief among them. They are treated as prophets of capitalism, yet their core doctrines amount to sanitized, technocratic socialism. 1. The Worship…

The Case for an Evolutionary Market of Conscience Agorism was originally conceived by Samuel Edward Konkin III as a revolutionary counter economy, a black market rebellion against the State. But over time, it has been misread, diluted, and mixed with ideas that never belonged to it, Marxist class theory, social…