{"id":3070,"date":"2016-03-18T09:50:37","date_gmt":"2016-03-18T13:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zeroaggressionproject.org\/?p=3070"},"modified":"2016-03-18T09:50:37","modified_gmt":"2016-03-18T13:50:37","slug":"post-statist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zeroaggressionproject.org\/how-to-think\/post-statist\/","title":{"rendered":"What kind of libertarian are you?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What kind of libertarian are you? Are you a post-statist?<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ZAPtheState\/status\/710827400121229312\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Retweet<\/a><br \/>\nWhat do we call ourselves, here at the Zero Aggression Project?<br \/>\nAccording to the most recent Pew Polling, 27% of Americans are (small-l) libertarians. As we describe in our Mental Levers, libertarians want to <strong>reduce<\/strong> the amount of initiated force used to address social problems. They want to &#8220;Downsize DC,&#8221; to coin a phrase.<br \/>\nVoluntaryists are libertarians who remove the remaining exceptions. They believe that, as today&#8217;s Mental Lever suggests, &#8220;all relationships should be voluntarily chosen and mutually maintained.&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>But what comes next for voluntaryists?<\/li>\n<li>How do we handle matters of government without initiated force?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At the Zero Aggression Project, we believe it&#8217;s important to have an answer. So\u2026<br \/>\nWe offer a &#8220;post-statist&#8221; vision. To be a post-statist means that we want The State replaced with consumer controlled governance.<br \/>\nSo, you might even say we have a &#8220;taxonomy,&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Libertarian &gt; Voluntaryist &gt; Post-statist<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The reception we&#8217;ve received for the Post-statist label has been remarkably positive. In today&#8217;s Mental Lever, we put forth a thorough definition of it.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zeroaggressionproject.org\/mental-lever\/post-statism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">What is a post-statist?<\/a><br \/>\nBy Jim Babka &amp; Perry Willis<br \/>\nWe\u2019re looking to build a \u201clibertarian society.\u201d The first stage of our plan is to locate 100,000 libertarians to help us spread the Zero Aggression message to a much wider audience. In our most recent count, the new Zero Aggression Project has 1,871 (+111) engaging with this material. You can help increase this number and have a large marginal impact in this launching stage simply by\u2026<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>While reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zeroaggressionproject.org\/mental-lever\/post-statism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">What is a post-statist?<\/a>, locate the gold box (on the right on your PC, below the comments on your phone). Use the social networking tools, found in that gold box, to share this Mental Lever with others.<\/li>\n<li>Forward this email to two friends who are libertarians or libertarian-leaning, encouraging them to join you in subscribing. Literally, ask them to sign-up! Asking is that important!<\/li>\n<li>Like &amp; Share this post from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/zeroaggressionproject\/posts\/1040595299312385\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The Zero Aggression Project needs to raise merely $3,900 in March to cover its monthly budget. <a href=\"https:\/\/secure.downsizedcfoundation.org\/zap-contrib\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Contributions can be tax-deductible<\/a>, if you itemize.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are post-statists &#8212; &#8220;voluntaryists with a vision&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":907,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[25,57,217,40,218,219,220,142,54],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>What kind of libertarian are you? 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