The Personal Freedom Library exists to encourage others to travel these perilous roads. He was thinking of industrial assets. But a small farm or ranch, some garden land and a woodlot are also means of production. Self-sufficiency homesteaders are fundamentally trying to achieve much the same thing that many entrepreneurs are after. Homesteaders are creating independent poverty instead of trying to be independently wealthy.
Much social criticism is little but the expression of reactive self-justification.
A few individuals, however, seem to transcend their own limitations. Here you will find works by the brilliant thinker, Ralph Borsodi and Ferdinand Lundberg.