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L.K. Samuels is the editor and contributing author of Facets of Liberty: A Libertarian Primer, first published in 1985. His new book, In Defense of Chaos: The Chaology of Politics, Economics and Human Action, was published in 2013. All of his books are available at www.lksamuels.com.

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I have been involved in the libertarian movement since the early 1970s, especially after conducting an interview of Robert LeFevre for my college newspaper. See my wikipedia page for L.K. Samuels. I hope to created an awareness for social chaology and illustrate its contribution to liberty.

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Camping in the outback and soaking in community-created hot springs.

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Columns by Lawrence Samuels

Was WWII a Battle Between Capitalism and Socialism?
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Lawrence Samuels 2020-01-23 10:21
Column by L.K. Samuels. Exclusive to STR The little hidden secret about World War II is that it was a giant struggle between two opposing economic ideologies—capitalism and socialism. Unfortunately, the public is mostly unaware that the Nazi and Fascist ranks were chock-full of hardcore socialists and Marxist-lite ideologues. This was no accident. For decades the public had been...
Why Are Most Socialists Anti-Semitic?
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Lawrence Samuels 2019-11-14 16:23
Column by L.K. Samuels. Exclusive to STR Ever since a horde of Democrat Socialists became the darlings of the news media in recent years, the specter of anti-Semitism has again reared its ugly head. This is no accident. Many of these Democratic Party politicians, especially Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, have embraced the ideals of socialism alongside those of anti-Semitism. And the reason for...
The 'Free Left' Rises to Challenge the 'Statist Left'
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Lawrence Samuels 2019-08-25 12:11
Column by L.K. Samuels. Exclusive to STR In 2015, libertarian author and broadcaster Jeff Riggenbach threw down the gauntlet and urged libertarians to retake their historical position as members of the “Left.” He argued that no longer should classical liberals hide in the shadows of a broken-down political spectrum that has been rigged. After all, it was the classical liberals and the...
Releasing the Kraken of Political Power
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Lawrence Samuels 2017-09-19 08:27
Column by Lawrence Samuels. Exclusive to STR What to make of Trump? Never has someone with so little political experience offended so many with so few words. This has aggravated almost everyone, but especially those who did not even vote for him. For instance, the founder of antiwar.com in San Francisco recently remarked that after he told his left-wing friends that he had voted for Gary Johnson...
Can Advocates of Violence (Like Che) Become Icons for Peace?
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Lawrence Samuels 2015-06-24 08:29
Column by L.K. Samuels. Exclusive to STR One would think that those who work diligently in the peace movement would praise those who speak warmly of peace and non-violence. But is this the case for today’s peace movement? One recent incident puts that assumption into doubt. On May 17, 2015, the Monterey Peace and Justice Center held a fundraising event in a Monterey, California hotel to...
Historical Sabotage of Italian Fascism and Liberalism
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Lawrence Samuels 2015-06-05 08:45
P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }A:link { }Column by L.K. Samuels. Exclusive to STR One of history’s dirtiest secrets of the 20th Century is the cover-up and sabotage of Italian Fascism as a Marxist-inspired ideology that clings to the statist Left. At various times, Benito Mussolini was an avowed Marxist, socialist, Revolutionary Syndicalist, and atheist, who sought to abolish the Italian...
Chaos Gets a Bad Rap: Importance of Chaology to Liberty Recommended
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Lawrence Samuels 2015-02-18 08:43
Column by L.K. Samuels. Exclusive to STR Chaos gets a bad rap—from the academic and scientific world, even from some uninformed libertarians. Few people realize that without the dynamics of chaos, order would not exist. In fact, nothing would exist. Without chaos there would be no creation, no structure and no existence. After all, order is merely the repetition of patterns; chaos is the...
Fixing Historical Sabotage
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Lawrence Samuels 2014-05-12 08:20
Column by L.K. Samuels. Exclusive to STR Being something of an amateur historian, I find it reprehensible that there are so-called historians willing to rewrite history to suit their own ideological narrative. But then again, as George Orwell wrote in Nineteen Eighty-Four, he “who controls the past, controls the future” and he “who controls the present controls the past....
Has Government Legalized Fraud?
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Lawrence Samuels 2013-12-12 09:33
Column by L.K. Samuels. Exclusive to STR The federal government must have made fraud a legal practice. What else could one conclude in light of Obamacare? When President Obama, his administration and his Democratic cohorts promoted the Affordable Health Care Act, they advertised it with a slew of silver-tongued falsehoods, eloquent misstatements and outright lies. In other words, Obamacare was...
Political Remedies and Global Warming
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Lawrence Samuels 2013-09-11 07:45
Column by L.K. Samuels. Exclusive to STR The article below contains excerpts from L.K. Samuels’ new book, In Defense of Chaos: The Chaology of Politics, Economics and Human Action. Groucho Marx came up with a memorable witticism concerning the contorted nature of politics. He quipped, “Politics is the act of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and...
Chaology and Market-Based Economics
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Lawrence Samuels 2013-07-17 07:31
Column by L.K. Samuels. Exclusive to STR The article below contains excerpts from L.K. Samuels’ new book, In Defense of Chaos: The Chaology of Politics, Economics and Human Action. Market chaologists and complexity economists recognize Adam Smith’s “invisible hand” metaphor as the earliest reference to how economic systems spontaneously emerge within society. In this way...
Swarm Intelligence and Dynamics
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Lawrence Samuels 2013-06-05 08:27
The article below contains excerpts from L.K. Samuels’ new book, In Defense of Chaos: The Chaology of Politics, Economics and Human Action. Column by L.K. Samuels. Exclusive to STR Intelligences take many forms, but the particular ways in which social animals—ants, bees, wasps, termites, birds, fish, and so forth—network into highly coordinated units without supervision has...
The Licensing Effect Recommended
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Lawrence Samuels 2013-05-10 08:28
The article below contains excerpts from L.K. Samuels’ new book, In Defense of Chaos: The Chaology of Politics, Economics and Human Action. Column by L.K. Samuels. Exclusive to STR Good intentions rarely make good laws. Those who do evil almost always think they are doing good for goodness’ sake. Nobody sees himself as evil. As Will Smith, the American actor, once quipped, “...
Paradoxes, Inconsistencies and Political Anarchists
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Lawrence Samuels 2013-04-17 08:21
Column by new Root Striker L.K. Samuels. Exclusive to STR The article below contains excerpts from L.K. Samuels’ new book, In Defense of Chaos: The Chaology of Politics, Economics and Human Action. Why do things rarely turn out as they should? Why do plans routinely backfire? Why is life so contradictory? Is there some logical explanation or theorem that would account for so many...
Swarm Intelligence and Dynamics
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Lawrence Samuels 2013-06-05 08:27
The article below contains excerpts from L.K. Samuels’ new book, In Defense of Chaos: The Chaology of Politics, Economics and Human Action. Column by L.K. Samuels. Exclusive to STR Intelligences take many forms, but the particular ways in which social animals—ants, bees, wasps, termites, birds, fish, and so forth—network into highly coordinated units without supervision has...
Chaos Gets a Bad Rap: Importance of Chaology to Liberty Recommended
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Lawrence Samuels 2015-02-18 08:43
Column by L.K. Samuels. Exclusive to STR Chaos gets a bad rap—from the academic and scientific world, even from some uninformed libertarians. Few people realize that without the dynamics of chaos, order would not exist. In fact, nothing would exist. Without chaos there would be no creation, no structure and no existence. After all, order is merely the repetition of patterns; chaos is the...
Can Advocates of Violence (Like Che) Become Icons for Peace?
9.5
Lawrence Samuels 2015-06-24 08:29
Column by L.K. Samuels. Exclusive to STR One would think that those who work diligently in the peace movement would praise those who speak warmly of peace and non-violence. But is this the case for today’s peace movement? One recent incident puts that assumption into doubt. On May 17, 2015, the Monterey Peace and Justice Center held a fundraising event in a Monterey, California hotel to...
Fixing Historical Sabotage
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Lawrence Samuels 2014-05-12 08:20
Column by L.K. Samuels. Exclusive to STR Being something of an amateur historian, I find it reprehensible that there are so-called historians willing to rewrite history to suit their own ideological narrative. But then again, as George Orwell wrote in Nineteen Eighty-Four, he “who controls the past, controls the future” and he “who controls the present controls the past....
Paradoxes, Inconsistencies and Political Anarchists
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Lawrence Samuels 2013-04-17 08:21
Column by new Root Striker L.K. Samuels. Exclusive to STR The article below contains excerpts from L.K. Samuels’ new book, In Defense of Chaos: The Chaology of Politics, Economics and Human Action. Why do things rarely turn out as they should? Why do plans routinely backfire? Why is life so contradictory? Is there some logical explanation or theorem that would account for so many...
Why Are Most Socialists Anti-Semitic?
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Lawrence Samuels 2019-11-14 16:23
Column by L.K. Samuels. Exclusive to STR Ever since a horde of Democrat Socialists became the darlings of the news media in recent years, the specter of anti-Semitism has again reared its ugly head. This is no accident. Many of these Democratic Party politicians, especially Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, have embraced the ideals of socialism alongside those of anti-Semitism. And the reason for...