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[quote] Oppenheimer's 'The State' is what you are looking for.[/quote] http://archive.org/details/stateitshistory00oppegoog But I guess there are several others too. Henry Morgan - Ancient society: http://archive.org/details/ancientsocietyo00morggoog Karl Marx buddy Friedrich Engels stole...
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I'm wondering how courts would function in a stateless society without coercion. Let's say someone embezzles money from me, and I want to sue him. Ideally, we (or our respective PDAs) would select a mutually-agreed upon court to act as arbiter. However, what if (1) we cannot agree on such a court...
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pg5K07c72Tw The good, bad and mad of Marxism with Robots! http://www.freedomainradio.com :)
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[quote user="Maxliberty"]One last word about corporations and the nonsense that corporations or similar structures won't exist in the absence of governement. It is normal for people to form groups for economic activity and it is normal that people will want to limit their liability equal...
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I sort of find myself mostly agreeing with JonBostwick here after reading through this thread. Nothing can ever justify dropping a nuclear weapon no matter how dire the situation. I don't think people really understand the implications of what their saying when they defend things like that. I think...
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[quote user="rhys"]Yes. I agree that this is the problem. How does one keep the users of violence from forming a State? And the answer is: In an anarchy, you can't. People may form a State if they desire. But, as proof that we live in a state of anarchy regardless of the formations of oppression...
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[quote user="jsh"] A small government advocate is still a statist. If a small government is justified, so is a big government. [/quote] That would depend on what someone considers justified. There can be gradual differences between types of governments and they way they are intruding in the...