Social Change: Promoting virtue without government aggression
“Human freedom is today threatened by regimented statism.” As Americans celebrate the Declaration of Independence of John Hancock et al in 1776 from King George III’s Great Britain, and the Revolutionary War fought to replace British rule, it’s worth exploring how liberty has been and can be achieved without resorting to the initiation of force. Voluntaryists are members of the libertarian movement who seek to achieve a free society without resorting to electoral politics. Nonviolent resistance, perhaps most famously associated with Ghandi’s ultimately successful bid to end British rule in India, involves many strategies libertarians can use to triumph over tyranny. Given the substantial electoral barriers incumbent political parties have erected to protect their power and privilege, libertarians are rediscovering how to promote virtue through “social change.”
–Dwight D. Eisenhower, October 12, 1948
