Sunday 31 July 2011

Shame on You, Janusz Korwin-Mikke!

For the last couple years I have been consistently voting in Polish elections for Mr. Janusz Korwin-Mikke and his political party. I also participate often in discussions on his blog and website forums and donate money to his cause. Why do I do this, despite the fact he usually gets no more than 2-3% of the vote? Because I consider him a principled man and, importantly, I agree with most of what he says. He is a highly conservative Monarchist who treats socialism and democracy (which, as we all know, are really two sides of the same coin) with contempt. He does not care about modern political correctness which is no more than a gag. He also played an important role in the early days of the Third Polish Republic by trying (sadly unsuccessfully) to kick more Commies and criminals out of government and secret service positions. And, most importantly, he is the only clear advocate of an unmolested free market in today's Poland. Mr. Korwin-Mikke believes in the "state" only as far as it is the King's private property - which I have advocated on multiple occasions as just (if not ideal). From this principle, however, stems one which I completely disagree with. Seeing how a modern libertarian revolution must be staged I have always called for complete privatization of everything we can get our socialist overlords to privatize. Mr. Korwin-Mikke supports this. I don't think, however, that he supports the privatization of LAND. He wants land to be just turned over to a ruling sovereign. Now seeing what his views are on secession (he points out that he would send would-be secessionists to labor camps) I can't not write the following:
Shame on You, Mr. Korwin-Mikke! Powinno byc Panu wstyd!
Now I don't know what he would say to my criticisms, but I do know that most of his supporters who are Misesians or Rothbardians (as I am) felt deeply insulted by the following article which featured a while ago on his blog: Autonomia Śląska? I pewna polit-brednia ("Autonomy for Silesia? Surely Political-Nonsense"). He states that Silesia has no right of secession and would have no such right if it was part of a Kingdom of Poland. Now does this mean that in a Kingdom nobody has any private property except for the King? This would certainly seem to be the case. But what we want to establish is not a country where all people simply the King's tenents! What I would advocate, in order to defend the social-darwinistic element that must exist in society, is a system where where all people have full property rights in their land and they only contract the King (in a way similar to the feudal lord/vassal relationship) to defend their property or provide other services. This way the King would not feel secure enough to treat the people living on his property as serfs or slaves, as he could possibly do under absolute Monarchy (although as history shows, this is extremely unlikely as it has rarely happened).
What does everyone else think about this, I wonder? I am suggesting here an Anarcho-Capitalist social order within a more-or-less feudal framework where everyone has full property rights and, what follows, full RIGHTS OF SECESSION. This seems to solve the quandry of actually eliminating the state from the state... so to speak. And I think such a system would definitely promote the highest levels of efficiency and utility as opposed to Leftist versions where cooperatives and commons eliminate the Darwinistic aspect and cause waste.

2 comments:

  1. 1. It is highly unlikely that any other person will have exactly the same vues as ours, and JKM is still the best option so far in my eyes.
    2. I agree with you, land must be private, the monarch can own is own land (e.g. in the UK, which is actually leased to the nation), but this should not prevent private individuals from possessing their own land which they can contract the monarch to protect etc. as with any other property. Property right are important for freedom and hence for justice and as I believe even - ultimately for the good of the so-called 'society'.

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  2. Of course the Monarch should own land, it would make him more careful about protecting the whole region better!

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