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Taxation Is Theft! ...and the State Is a Gang: Themes and Essays on Libertarianism
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ISBN13: 9798277095300
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Dec 3 2025
Pages: 414
Weight: 1.21
Height: 0.85 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Dec 3 2025
Pages: 414
Weight: 1.21
Height: 0.85 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Synopsis A bold libertarian manifesto, this book challenges the foundations of contemporary collectivism by articulating a vigorous defense of individual freedom. With an interdisciplinary approach, the author weaves together economic, legal, and philosophical concepts to uphold the pillars of libertarianism, confronting the coercive structures of the State and the collectivist narratives that permeate today's political culture. To illustrate his arguments, he draws from a wide gallery of authors and historical figures - from classical thinkers to controversial personalities - revealing how the struggle for individual autonomy spans centuries and remains urgent today. Through forceful essays, the author applies these principles to the Brazilian context, exploring historical episodes, cultural traits, and everyday situations to expose the tension between autonomy and domination. The work culminates in a daring proposition: individual secession and the creation of free territories - a radical alternative to centralized governance.
The author begins with the logic of natural law to show how idealistic theories - no matter how well-intentioned - inevitably collapse when confronted with reality, corrupting the foundations of true justice. By reclaiming reason as a normative source, he exposes the limits of utopian constructs and argues that justice cannot be born from voluntarist abstractions, but must emerge from principles rooted in human nature and reciprocity. Next, the book offers a reinterpretation of classical economic concepts, introducing a new theory of value that breaks away from dominant monetarist paradigms. Treating economics as a natural force - not as social engineering - the author reveals the inevitability of the market as a spontaneous expression of human cooperation. Exchange, pricing, and wealth are not arbitrary constructs, but organic manifestations of freedom. Beyond its economic and legal provocations, the book proposes a radical rethinking of what we commonly understand as society. In a political landscape marked by fragmentation and identity tribalism, the author argues that national bonds have lost their cohesive power. Without a shared purpose, the notion of society becomes a rhetorical shell - often used to justify control rather than foster genuine cooperation. In this context, the book challenges the reader to break with belonging and recognize mere coexistence. The work lays bare the oligarchic game that drives Brazilian - and perhaps global - politics, showing how the welfare narrative is weaponized to concentrate power. The author denounces how collectivism - once called fascism - is reborn through a festive identity agenda wrapped in rainbow colors, finding shelter in state institutions and seeking privileges funded by taxpayer money. Under the pretext of protecting the vulnerable, the system squeezes the productive class through taxes and regulation, perpetuating dependence and sacrificing liberty in the name of control. Finally, in its most visionary moment, the book proposes a new crossing of the Red Sea - not in search of a promised land, but of a startup-state created to shelter the free souls of this planet. Learning from the failures of the past, the author imagines autonomous territories built from scratch, governed by voluntary association and entrepreneurial spirit. These micro-nations would serve as laboratories of liberty, offering refuge from the bureaucratic grip of centralized power and reigniting the possibility of self-determination in the age of fragmentation. Dense in content yet written with clarity and accessibility, this is a book for those who seek to understand - and challenge - the monster called the State.
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