Against the State

My ex-professor and advisor of political science (he's not teaching me anymore, but i am still learning alot from him) published a new book titled "Against the State" with the argument that all the arguments made throughout history to legitimize the state/government are basically full of crap and insane!
To alot of people of course, government is all they know, and they cannot imagine the world without government, only because they think that without it their liberties and rights will be violated. What they do not think of though, is how governments all around the world have proven that they are the reason rights and liberties are violated. Governments are the ones starting wars, supresing the media, manipulating minds, torturing people in prisons, starving populations, practicing ethnic cleansing and genocide, and causing many more problems that deprive many of their liberty and right to live.
I do not agree with everything Crispy believes in, but I am an anarcho-socialist for a reason, and i think government is useless!
I would like to see people accept his challenge and reply to the post below:

A Philosophical Challenge

My irritating yet astounding new book Against the State (SUNY Press) argues that all the arguments of the great philosophers (Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Hume, Hegel, Rawls, Nozick, and Habermas, among others), are, putting it kindly, unsound.

The state rests on violence: not the consent of the governed, not utility, not rational decision-making, not justice.

Not only are the existing arguments for the legitimacy of state power unsound; they are shockingly fallacious, a scandal, an embarrassment to the Western intellectual tradition.
So I issue a challenge: Give a decent argument for the moral legitimacy of state power, or reconstruct one of the traditional arguments in the face of the refutations in Against the State.
If you can't, you are rationally obliged to accept anarchism.

I'd offer a huge cash prize, but I'm broke.Henceforward, if you continue to support or observe the authority of government, you are an evil, irrational cultist.

You're an anarchist now, baby, until further notice.

e-mail responses to c.sartwell@verizon.com

Yours in anarchy,
Crispin Sartwell

The Pornography of Meat

I saw this book and flipped through it at a crazy/awesome leftist bookstore two summers ago. I was only a summer intern and didn't have enough money on my debit card to buy it, but I have been dying to read it ever since.

This book is about true feminism and journalism, and somehow vegeterianism. About women being treated like a peice of meat and about meat products portrayed as women and all that this indicates. The book reveals so many ways in which women until this day are being used and their images distorted and abused. This book is for every woman who cares for her rights and for every man who wants to learn why there is an international Women's Day and no "day" for men, and of course for men who support our movement.

the Pornography of Meat is a revealing, empowering, and informative book that everyone who can find it should read. I am getting it in August!