European Freestate Project

The European Freestate Project is about you and me and about the choices we make everyday. Our well being and our life depend on us choosing between what we want and what we are ready to give up for it. But besides our own choices we also depend on the cooperation of our fellow man.

Because this cooperation is so vital to us, we are easily offended if the others choose not to cooperate as we want them to. And many people will resort to violence to force them to comply. Even those who do not use force themselves (and maybe even see the use of force as immoral) will excuse the use of force if done by the government according to their wishes. If you hear the words "The government should ..." you may always substitute the words "I want other people to be forced to ...".

But using force - except in self defence - is still immoral. Using government as the instrument makes no difference. And no amount of democratic voting can legitimatise immoral behaviour. Besides the use of force always produces quite the contrary of its intentions. Because force produces hostility and hostility reduces the will to cooperate. Therefore force worsens the problem instead of solving it.

There is, however, an alternative. We, the members of the European Freestate Project, are fed up with other people legitimizing the government to use force against peaceful people for the alleged common good. Aggressing against peaceful people can never be good. We want to live in a society where every human interaction is based on mutual voluntary agreement. This is called the free market. We understand that the maximum role of government is to protect this mutual voluntarism.

In a purely voluntary society you are never deprived of the result of your productive effort. Your ability to satisfy demands of the market turns into a right to consume from other people's production as they were previously consuming from your production. This is the highest form of social cooperation because every man's desire to satisfy his own wants is immediatly transformed into a desire to satisfy another mens wants as this is the only way to obtain goods in the free market.

Only through government interference can another option become available: To obtain goods from the market not by producing goods yourself but by taxing producers through government. With this option available it immediately becomes more desirable not to produce through your own labour but to lobby for government subsidies. The obvious result is steadily falling numbers of producers and a steadily rising number of government subsidized consumers who do not produce anything themselves. This is the situation in Europe today, where every productive man has to feed four other men who he doesn't even know, and who do not produce anything.

Our mission is to stop this madness and return to a society where every man has an unconditional right to retain the wealth and property that he has gained by his own productive labour. Only then is true social cooperation possible.

Do you want freedom? Are you prepared to take on the responsibility for your own life? Then register as a user and see whether the European Freestate Project is your way to liberty in your lifetime.