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Hi everybody, I made a previous thread on pretty much the smae subject, but I only got 1 reply, so I think it may not have been very clear. Suppose a part or several parts of the world become anarchic for a period of time and assume that foreign or neihgbouring states by some miracle do not interfere...
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The founding fathers believed it was the right of the people to abolish the government once it no longer protected the natural rights of its citizens. They believed in secession - afterall, the Revolutionary War was fought so that the US could secede from Britain. According to Rothbardian logic, if you...
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wonder what you guys think of the utilitarian view on property rights and the stuff associated with it like david friedman talks in his book http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Libertarian/Machinery_of_Freedom/MofF_Contents.html especially the property rights issue(high energy laser beam buzzing through neighbour...
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I was at youTube today (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24nVarM20KQ) and got into a debate with someone who brought up the issue of Walter Block's support of voluntary slavery. He brought up the issue that in an anarcho-capitalist society, that there would be a risk of people signing their lives away...
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What I’ve gotten so far is that he suggests we invert the investment utility of money as a medium of exchange. Rather than earning money for hoarding money (interest on savings), he evokes the thoughts of Silvio Gesell saying that ...money is a public good - like the telephone or bus transport...
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local / competing currencies, as I understand, are the essence of liberty and will, inevitably, lead to the universal acceptance of a gold standard. I believe the usage of localized currencies will be fairly widespread within the next 10years. the past two days, I have become very interested in Bernard...
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I read this on NYT article on Somali pirates. The piracy industry started about 10 to 15 years ago, Somali officials said, as a response to illegal fishing. Somalia’s central government imploded in 1991, casting the country into chaos. With no patrols along the shoreline, Somalia’s tuna-rich...
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[quote user="Fred Furash"]I agree, Minarchism seems to imply a minimum amount of anarchy....which is the opposite of what Minarchism is usually thought to mean. Ministatism would make more sense.[/quote] Your premise is incorrect. The term "anarchy" comes from the Greek an- "without"...
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Lets say that our government abolished itself, and left the people to try anarchy for a year. After that year, there would be a vote. If the majority voted for government, it would come back in, but otherwise, the anarchy would continue. After tasting anarchy, would the people choose it above democracy...
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Considering that private courts would be competing for consumer money, and, therefore, consumers would have a choice over what kind of "law" they want to live under, wouldn't a minarchy or kritarchy be more libertarian? My point being that if consumers can choose law, it is no different...