The Parallel Society

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The parallel society is a decentralized and voluntary alternative to the centralized and coercive control of the totalitarian society. There are no political sects involved, but from the aims of life and the aut ntic needs of real people. One can build technologies that promote freedom or agoristic economic institutions that further voluntary exchange. This independent life begins, of itself, to become structured in a certain way.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, reflecting on the Soviet Union’s descent into totalitarian rule in the mid-20th century, and all the things that could have been done to prevent it, wrote the following: “If…if… We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation. . .we hurried to submit. We submitted with pleasure! … We purely and simply deserved everything that […]

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