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BK Marcus is an amateur political economist with no formal education in the subject.

He works from Charlottesville, Virginia, as an editorial consultant for the Ludwig von Mises Institute.

He is no longer a house husband, nor a faculty spouse, but he is still a dilettante, and a layabout, at least in spirit.

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"It is no crime to be ignorant of economics, which is, after all, a specialized discipline and one that most people consider to be a 'dismal science.' But it is totally irresponsible to have a loud and vociferous opinion on economic subjects while remaining in this state of ignorance."

– Murray Rothbard

Ludwig von Mises: "No mass phenomenon can be adequately treated without analyzing the ideas implied. And no new ideas spring from the mythical mind of the masses." - Theory and History

Individualists have always been accused by their enemies of being "atomistic" -- of postulating that each individual lives in a kind of vacuum, thinking and choosing without relation to anyone else in society. This, however, is an authoritarian straw man; few, if any, individualists have ever been "atomists." On the contrary, it is evident that individuals always learn from each other, cooperate and interact with each other; and that this, too, is required for man's survival. But the point is that each individual makes the final choice of which influences to adopt and which to reject, or of which to adopt first and which afterwards. The libertarian welcomes the process of voluntary exchange and cooperation between freely acting individuals; what he abhors is the use of violence to cripple such voluntary cooperation and force someone to choose and act in ways different from what his own mind dictates.

Murray Rothbard, The Libertarian Manifesto


Benjamin Tucker Marcus
April 10, 2008

new blog

January 6th, 2007 by bkmarcus

WorPress logoSorry for the unannounced silence. I wanted to start off the new year with a new blog and it took longer than I expected to get things working. Still plenty of banging and tinkering left to do, but at least you know I haven't abandoned you.

I've left Blogger behind and am now running WordPress locally.

(Thanks AC for fixing everything I broke!)

You should be able to read any pre-2007 posts here:

http://bkmarcus.com/blog/archive/pre2007.html

And I've brought my "best of" page up-to-date:

http://bkmarcus.com/blog/best/

Unfortunately, to get things working properly for PHP, I had to break BlackCrayon.com (and most of bkmarcus.com, too). The JSP and PHP weren't playing well together and I've decided it's finally time to dump JSP. I'll get the content back up soon, maybe even in a new WordPress site.

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One Response

  1. Josh Says:
    January 8th, 2007 at 9:35 am

    Congrats on the move. I'm a fan of WordPress, and use it on my own website.


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The most important thing to understand about lowercase-L libertarians (as opposed to the Libertarian Party) is that we oppose politics. The capital-L Libertarians believe that politics can be abolished by political means. Lowercase-L libertarian anarchists reject political means as well as political ends.

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