Life is better with freedom
VOLUNTARYISM:
- Interactions between people should be voluntary and free of force, fraud, theft, and threats.
- No one has the right to harm you, steal from you, threaten you, or violate your rights.
- Relations among people should be by mutual consent, or not at all. Voluntaryism does not argue for the specific form that voluntary arrangements will take; only that force, fraud, theft, and threats be abandoned so that individuals in society may flourish.
Voluntaryists are advocates of non-political, non-violent strategies to achieve a free society. We reject electoral politics, in theory and in practice, as incompatible with libertarian principles. Governments must cloak their actions in an aura of moral legitimacy in order to sustain their power, and political methods invariably strengthen that legitimacy. Voluntaryists seek instead to delegitimize the State through education, and we advocate withdrawal of the cooperation and tacit consent on which State power ultimately depends.