The big news in the freedom movement at the moment is the victory of Javier Milei in becoming president of Argentina. Milei is like Donald Trump on steroids, highly manic and energetic. He did electoral promotions with a working chainsaw, indicting his plans to slash government spending. Milei is the first libertarian president the world has seen, and his program is to wind back government to the basic “night watchman” level, only doing basic things that free market fails to deliver in. He was featured in one advertisement, standing by a big white board and tearing off labels like “diversity and women” and tossing them away. In short, all the woke programs will get the chop if he has his way.

On climate change Milei has said: ““So (climate change) has nothing to do with our actions. With greenhouse gases, with human activity? That doesn’t have an effect on climate change?” Milei responded, “Now the reason why it’s happening may be different. But the Earth has already experienced these temperature levels at other times in its history.” That point alone will upset the globalist elites.

This is generally regarded by our side of politics as a good start. Libertarianism is far from perfect, but is a good counter at this time to the radical socialism we are seeing in the West, so it will certainly be interesting to see how far Milei gets. But, it is still a long way to go to get the first Douglas social credit president, but it is an ideal we strive towards, and more.

Dr Robert Malone has the background below on how socialist economic policies destroyed Argentina, which was once a first world economy.

https://www.deseret.com/2023/11/20/23969806/sen-mike-lee-javier-mileis-argentina

https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/anarcho-capitalism-and-dr-javier

“As with Meloni’s election, we have been treated to yet another peek at the Wizard behind the curtain playing his Mighty Wurlitzer. Labeling Javier Milei as a television personality, a common trope in both domestic and international corporate media, is a gross distortion of reality.

Why is Milei’s training in the Austrian School of economics relevant? Because the economic logic of the Austrian School is based on strict adherence to the idea that social phenomena result exclusively from the motivations and actions of individuals. Austrian school theorists hold that economic theory should be exclusively derived from basic principles of human action. In other words, growth in the “wealth of nations” is the consequence of actions of the individuals which create value and wealth. The Austrian School emphasizes the importance of free markets, individualism, and minimal government intervention. It should come as no surprise that Ayn Rand highly recommended the economic writings of the Austrian school, particularly those of Ludwig von Mises. Is this starting to make sense now?

In Ayn Rand’s literary metaphor of Galt’s Gulch, the productive have fled and formed their own community, where free-market principles prevail and those who are enterprising succeed without the need for government regulation.

“We are not a state here, not a society of any kind – we’re just a voluntary association of men held together by nothing but every man’s self-interest. I own the valley and I sell the land to the others, when they want it. Judge Narragansett is to act as our arbiter, in case of disagreements. He hasn’t had to be called upon, as yet. They say that it’s hard for men to agree. You’d be surprised how easy it is – when both parties hold as their moral absolute that neither exists for the sake of the other and that reason is their only means of trade.”
(Rand, 2007, p. 748)

Dr. Milei is basically an intellectual academic who became a truth warrior in response to the damage he saw being done to his country by a parasitic administrative state. In other words, he is yet another intellectual critic who is mad as hell and not going to take it anymore.

He graduated with a degree in economics from the University of Belgrano, and continued on to obtain a masters degree and doctorate in economics from the Instituto de Desarrollo Economico y Social and Torcuato di Tella University. For over twenty years he taught University-level courses in macroeconomics, economic growth, microeconomics, and mathematics for economists, and authored several books in economics and politics. His signature presidential campaign rallying cry has been “Long live freedom, damn it!”, coupled with criticism of the “thieving and corrupt political class” of Argentina. Austrian school logic formulated as populism for the masses. Labeling Dr. Milei as Trump-like is clearly a gross oversimplification.

In his 1973 classic The Machinery of Freedom, David Friedman outlines his vision of an anarchist society. Anarcho-capitalists forcefully reject paternalism, i.e., the view that people must be forcibly protected from themselves. The only enforceable claim people have against others is to be left alone. Like all anarchists, Friedman objects to the existence of the state, which he says is distinguished from a criminal gang only by the psychological fact that “most people treat government coercion as normal and proper”

Don’t cry for Argentina, a once and future jewel and the second largest South American country, which is endowed with an embarrassment of natural resource wealth. Which assets have been mismanaged for decades by a parasitic and dysfunctional government, resulting in widespread economic devastation. During the 19^th century the country enjoyed an almost-unparalleled increase in prosperity, resulting in early 20th century Argentina becoming the seventh-wealthiest nation in the world.  In 1896, Argentina's GDP per capita surpassed that of the United States, and the country was consistently in the global economic top ten until at least 1920.

Argentina remained among the fifteen richest countries until the meteoric mid-century rise to the Presidency of a previously unknown minor military leader named Juan Perón.  This political earthquake was followed by a cascade of bad management, political, social, and economic upheaval, USG meddling, and a notorious “dirty war” of the State against dissident citizens. Now, after decades of high government spending and economic stagnation, despite abundant natural resources, Argentina has become one of the poorest countries in the world. A case study in how a prosperous modern economy can be strangled by an overbearing and corrupt administrative state bureaucracy.  Sound familiar?

Dr. Javier Milei leads the “La Libertad Avanza” (Liberty Advances) coalition, and has vowed to “put an end to the parasitic and useless political caste that is destroying this country”. His parties’ campaign has broken the mold of traditional Argentine politics by focusing heavily on social media, particularly TikTok and YouTube, where he developed a strong following among younger supporters. “Today, the reconstruction of Argentina begins” he confidently asserted, as historic election results poured in. “Argentina’s situation is critical. The changes our country needs are drastic. There is no room for gradualism, no room for lukewarm measures.” “Argentina will return to the place in the world which it should never have lost.”

 No wonder the US Deep State and it’s Mockingbird media are out to draw blood from this charismatic populist economist. One who dares to combine alternative social media presence with attacks on a parasitic and useless political caste. The elite members of the Atlantic Council and the Council on Foreign Relations must be wetting themselves.  Time to let slip the dogs of the censorship-industrial complex, and to watch the Wikipedia and Google ranking manipulation begin.  Don’t forget the popcorn.

The truth is that they should be running for their stockpile of Depends.  For Austrian school economist Milei self-identifies as an anarcho-capitalist.  Not as a “Trump-like”, “alt right”, “far right”, fascist, libertarian, neo-Nazi radical. As such, Milei happens to be at the leading edge of a growing contrarian intellectual movement which directly challenges the legitimacy of the administrative state.  One which has now grown to the point where it can no longer be dismissed as “a small minority opinion”, and has been catapulted onto the world stage by an independent Latin American nation with nothing to lose and everything to gain.

I kept reading and hearing the term “anarcho-capitalism” pop up in edgy discussions with the various thought leaders whom I encounter in my daily random walk through the community of freedom and sovereignty advocates.  Trying it out for size with various free-thinking investors, I repeatedly heard “Yes, I think that term fits the way I think about things”.   So, having long ago learned to distrust Wikipedia for opinions on any freethinking ideas, I started texting others in my circle.  And I struck gold with Jeffrey Tucker of Brownstone Institute. 

I asked Jeffrey “So, are you an anarcho-capitalist?” He immediately replied “I’ve never called myself that.  Too rationalistic and formulistic for my tastes.  I just prefer freedom generally speaking, though my teacher was the creator of that term”.

Bingo.  I replied “Interesting.  Who is?”  He simply responded “Murray Rothbard”.  I came back with “OK, so now I have to look him up.  Recommended reading on background?”

“Oh goodness, it’s all so much”, he replied (I can easily imagine his voice) “I kind of recoil at most of this heavy ideological stuff these days, but let me think for a moment”.

And then he threw open a new “thought” door for me to pass through.  “Here is Rothbard’s view of the state as an institution” he wrote, followed by a PDF copy of the book “Anatomy of the State”.  I sent a copy over to Jill as we were boarding yet another flight across the pond, and we both started pouring through this little 58 page gem published by the Ludwig von Mises Institute.  We were astounded by the ideas flowing from the pages.  And suddenly it all made sense.  Idea space we had been independently groping, like the blind men trying to describe an elephant, suddenly came into focus, and aspects of the Globalists’ actions and agenda took on new meaning.

“Anarchists oppose the State because it has its very being in such aggression, namely, the expropriation of private property through taxation, the coercive exclusion of other providers of defense services from its territory, and all of the other depredations and coercions that are built upon these twin foci of invasions of individual rights.”
(Rothbard, 2016)

Indeed, as captured in Dr. Milei’s vow to “put an end to the parasitic and useless political caste that is destroying this country”, at the core of Rothbard’s analysis is the thesis that the State is an insatiable economic parasite, constantly growing by feeding off of the surplus productive labor of those free sovereign individuals over which it asserts the right to govern. 

If one was seeking to develop a diametrically opposed alternative to globalist “one world government” techno-fascism, anarcho-capitalism would be a pretty good candidate in my opinion.  

In the modern Brave New World which is being aggressively pushed toward a “Dark Aeon” transhumanist future at breakneck speed, the global financial and political elite find the decentralized diversity of cultures and independent nation states an inconvenient source of systemic “friction”, of inefficiency in navigating and achieving the financially optimized utilitarian, Malthusian, homogenized transhuman future which they seek in their endless quest for greater return on investment. 

So what’s a nirvana and immortality-craving psychopathic oligarch to do, in striving to forever maintain wealth and global dominance?  Substitute a single “harmonized” global government to resolve the messy chaos of human cultural and political diversity.  Trade a complicated mix of different small parasites for one big one to rule them all.  Problem solved.  Those of us being parasitized will own nothing, be happy, have nowhere to go and no way to get out from under the thumb of this New World Order.  What could possibly go wrong?

I submit that we have already lived through a B-grade movie version of that future during the COVIDcrisis of the last four years.  You ask what could possibly go wrong with a top-down, centralized authoritarian diktat response to daily management of a globalized one-world socioeconomic system?  If you do not immediately recognize the answer, than you are clearly suffering from mass formation (psychosis), and best of luck adapting to the future which is coming at you like a freight train.

Judging by the political stalemate and exploding debt which are the defining characteristics of the current US Imperial administrative state, it may already be too late to stop the out of control freight train barreling towards the DC Beltway.  As Rothbard points out, the debts of any government are canceled in the event of either revolution or foreign takeover after a lost (political or economic) war.  And treaties are not contracts.  The indebtedness and collapse of the British royal Tudor family consequent to a failed civil war took down the Italian Medici banking empire.  Those who live by the sword often die by the sword. What fate awaits the Blackrock/Vanguard/State Street megafund if either USA or PRC/CCP default?

But meantime (back at the ranch), by monitoring this economic and political experiment involving a government influenced by anarcho-capitalistic socioeconomic theory as it runs its course in Argentina, we may be treated to a foreshadowing of the future which a post BRICS currency west may soon encounter.  Breaking up with an entrenched fiat currency will be hard.  I suspect that softening the blow is one motive driving Globalist advocacy for central bank digital currency (CBDC).

Perhaps the Mockingbird will not sing too loudly, its noisy territorial defense making it harder for freedom lovers to learn necessary lessons from this new Argentine economic experiment.  Suffice to say, investment opportunities abound for those who are awake and alert. 

But I have no doubt that, in stubborn non-conformity with Malthusian predictions, both hope and innovation will continue to spring eternal in the human heart.”