The Tom Woods Show, episode 683.

Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion.

Your daily dose of liberty education starts here, the Tom Woods Show.

Hi, everybody, Tom Woods here.

By popular demand, Eric July is our guest today.

He is an American rapper and an anarcho-capitalist. That is an

unusual combination, really in any genre of music. He currently leads the hip-hop slash metal band

Backwords. That's B-A-C-W-O-R-D-Z.

He's a contributor to Liberty Hangout, Being Libertarian, and the Libertarian Republic.

He's got a very interesting personal story, and he knows Rothbardian libertarianism backwards and forward.

So we're going to talk to him about that. Eric, welcome to the show.

Thank you for having me, brother. You know, of course I want to talk about your music, but before we do

that, I want to talk about your ideas. You and I hold a set of ideas that are not as popular as

you and I think they ought to be. So I'm curious to know if you had to describe who you are

in terms of political ideas, what would you say? Well, I would most definitely say I'm an

ad cap, if anything, some sort of voluntarist. When I say that, I mean that in terms of the end game, I would love for it to be a free society in which all human affairs are voluntary and consensual.

Now, I know for a lot of people, when I say that I'm an ANCAP, they automatically, I don't know when this happened, but people kind of assume that you're a gorse and

you adopt agorism if you are in ANCAP. And I don't necessarily adopt that. But again, I do believe

that no government, no state should exist. And again, it's just really extending whatever.

You know, I have a problem with the state for the same reason.

I have a problem with anybody using force on peaceful people.

So I just extend that to its logical conclusion.

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