Omnilibertarian Lexicon
Perhaps this will encourage mutual understanding among anarcho-communists, anarcho-capitalists, collectivist anarchists, agorists, voluntaryists, mutualists, anarcho-syndicalists, geoists, and other libertarian schools of thought.
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Slave-speak | Free-speak |
leader (of a government entity) | ruler |
tax-payer | tax-serf |
capitalism | Avoid! Ambiguous. Instead use: |
statist kind | statist capitalism or corporatism or economic fascism or neo-mercantilism. |
stateless kind | libertarian capitalism or free market capitalism or propertarian anarchism |
socialism | Avoid! Ambiguous. Instead use: |
statist kind | statist socialism or anti-propertarian statism or collectivist statism |
stateless kind | libertarian socialism or anti-propertarian anarchism or anti-propertarian libertarianism |
rent-seeking | loot-seeking |
The Slave 'We' - E.g. Our country, our nation, our leader, we bombed …, "Support Our Troops" | The State's claimed turf, the ruler, the ruling elites bombed ... "Condemn the Rulers' Hired Murderers" |
"Nation"
Statists like to sugar-coat "State" with names that appeal to racial/ethnic/religious characteristics ("nation") or with regional localism ("country.") |
State
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When government does it | When anybody else does it |
FISA/PATRIOT Act | felony wiretapping |
enhanced interrogation | torture |
no-knock raids | breaking and entering |
taxation | robbery/extortion |
arrest | kidnapping |
indefinite detention | holding hostages |
income/property tax | tribute; "protection" money |
"protecting and serving"" | kidnapping and terrorizing |
government education | government indoctrination |
campaign promise | lie |
campaign contribution | bribery |
lobbying | bribery |
defense operation | military aggression |
military occupation | land theft and mass murder |
peacekeeping mission | invasion |
TSA patdown | government sexual assault |
national security | ruler ambition |
war | mass murder |