Pete Quinones talks about his new project, The Monopoly on Violence, a documentary featuring interviews with many prominent figures in the libertarian and anarchist movements. The film explores the history of both statism and anarchism, explaining the nature of government as the only entity with a monopoly on the legal use of force, and advocates alternatives to this barbaric system. You can watch now on YouTube, and soon the documentary will be available on Amazon and Netflix.

Discussed on the show:

“The Monopoly On Violence” (YouTube)

Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States

The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia

The Machinery of Freedom: Guide to a Radical Capitalism 2nd edition by David D. Friedman (1989) Paperback

Pete Quinones is managing editor of the Libertarian Institute and hosts the Free Man Beyond the Wall podcast. He is the author of Freedom Through Memedom: The 31-Day Guide to Waking Up to Liberty and is co-producing the documentary, The Monopoly On Violence.

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Show TranscriptScott Horton 0:10

All right, shall welcome and Scott Horton show. I am the director of the libertarian Institute editorial director of anti war calm, author of the book fool's errand, time to end the war in Afghanistan. And I've recorded more than 5000 interviews going back to 2003, all of which are available at scotthorton.org dot org. You can also sign up to the podcast feed full archive is also [email protected] slash Scott Horton show. Aren't you guys on the line? I've got Pete Quinones. And he is the managing editor of the libertarian Institute. He also put out the books that kids are not all right. And freedom through mean dumb and he is one of the producers of this new documentary. I think you'll really like It's called the monopoly on violence. Welcome back to the show Pete How you doing?

Pete Quinones 1:07

Good to be with you, Scott and doing well.

Scott Horton 1:09

Pete I don't think you've written any blog entries about the movie or articles kind of explaining debuting the movie for the institute since it came out.

Pete Quinones 1:19

What I'm waiting to do is the version of it that we put on YouTube has some has some flaws in it, audio level here and there. But it was just one of those things where everything that was happening in the world with the riots and everything we were just like, let's get this out there and see what people think we've only had like 10 people, including yourself, say anything about you know what was in it, and you know, and or audio levels, or maybe a vocal gets clipped somewhere. So what out I was gonna wait until we're prepping it. Now to upload to Amazon and when you upload it to Amazon, it has to be perfect. So that's what we're doing right now we're re recording a couple of the narration parts. And then we're going to send it to a guy who is going to professional audio guy who is going to level everything out the sound is going to be perfect. And then that's what I was gonna start talking about it on the inside.

Scott Horton 2:21

Okay, so it's, it's open. The store is open now, but it's the grand opening is coming up here, and that's when we're going to make a real big deal about it. Okay.