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History
There are those who create and those who destroy, and all of history is simply interplay between those two opposite directions with respect to property. One direction adds to property, and the other direction subtracts from property; one is positive, … More
Government
Any person or organization that sells products or services to protect property, to which the owner of the property may voluntarily subscribe.
Good, absolute
A subjective good to at least one person which is not imposed on any other volitional being. The absoluteness is in the fact that, independently of who defines the good, coercion is absent on a universal basis.
Good
The subjective evaluation of a preferred action, or a preferred transition from one state to another.
Definition
An assigned meaning that is attributed to a word or a phrase or a concept, from which you never deviate.
Crime
Crime is a successful, intentional interference with the property of another. In other words, it is an act of successful coercion.
Corollary
A corollary is the restatement of information you already know into other words for a utilitarian reason.
Control
The ability to make volitional decisions concerning the disposition of property.
Contract
A voluntary agreement between two or more people who have property which they are desirous of exchanging the use and control thereof.
Conservatism
The tendency to preserve what is established. According to Galambos, “Conservatives run all countries; they’re conserving the state.”
Capital
Production of property in excess of consumption requirements and also used for further production.
Bureaucracy
Any legal organization that controls the property of individuals without their consent.
Action (negative and positive)
Action, negative: Volitional behavior that is patterned upon opposition to someone else’s products or behavior. Action, positive: Volitional behavior that is initiating the generation of new property. Only positive action can produce something useful.
Liberal
Liber = free, al = pertaining to. Therefore “liberal” means pertaining to freedom.
Capitalism
Capitalism is that societal structure whose mechanism is capable of protecting all forms of private property completely.
Property
Property is an individual’s life and all non-procreative derivatives of his life, including thoughts and ideas. NOTE: For an expanded definition of property see Chapter 5, text accompanying note 1.
Freedom
Freedom is the societal condition that exists when every individual has full (i.e. 100%) control over his or her own property.