Agreed. Yet I often hear people throw around the term 'statist', but it doesn't form an argument by itself.

I don't have a problem with individuals voluntarily forming a state. If I respect their voluntary statehood, then that would be enough to make me a 'statist'. I.e. respect for voluntarism becomes statism.

Being practical, I think the idea of complete anarchy is interesting and deserving to be tested, but I can't assume that it will work before the code is run and evaluated, so to speak.

If we have a plethora of small jurisdictions competing for capital, entrepreneurs, skills and workers, that would be a perfectly fine voluntarist solution, even though it qualifies as 'statist'.

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Yep, another way to describe this, I believe is autocratic communities. I believe that diverse community is the key. Peaceful cooperation through respect, even if that respect is brokered through mutually assured destruction.