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In this episode we speak with Louis James who writes Casey Research’s, The International Speculator and also is a regular host of Conversations with Casey, a weekly    Topics include:  

• Louis’ evolution from a socialist to an anarchist
• The two authors that woke Louis up were Ayn Rand (the Fountain Head) and Robert Heinlein
• Anarchists need to go back and re-watch movies after they convert to anarchism
• Louis’ comments on Occupy Wall Street (OWS), “This looks like one of those times when history is about to veer completely in the wrong direction”
• OWS has so much potential for good but it likely won’t happen
• Louis used to protest protesters with his organization, “Bureaucrash”
• We (anarchists) can’t wish away human nature any more than the communists could
• Louis isn’t sure anarchy has grown that much because of the internet or if the internet just made it easier to find anarchists
• Louis believes Ron Paul cannot win but is spreading education in a great way
• 9/11 swayed the pendulum back towards the statists after a long rise in free market understanding
• In the US, talking about capitalism is like going into a church and talking about statism
• In the old eastern bloc countries, people thirst for knowledge about capitalism
• Socialism ultimately always ends once everyone is so impoverished
• Louis operates the Casey Youth Conference on Liberty and Entrepreneurship (ProfitFromFreedom.com) and teaches students in Lithuania about free-market capitalism
• Anarchists should focus on reducing government.  It doesn’t have to go to zero, overnight.