Anarchy would work if criminal actors like the state didn’t co-opt its efforts. Somalia pre 1991 was propped up by western aid.1991 it no longer was of strategic importance and various factions backed by cia proxies fought in a vacuum over scraps. I recommend devils chessboard to get a feel for the cia playbook. As for why anarchy is our natural state, we are self organizing creatures that naturally adopt a hierarchy based on division of labor bc it’s more productive than going at it alone. This is the basis of civilization. The state produces nothing, everything it has is stolen from individuals. It’s only a drag on civilization
This is the anarcho-capitalist mindset at work. Anarchy is beautiful - but fragile. Somalia is a perfect example.
In 1991, after the government collapsed, the country entered a state without a state. At first, it was booming. Things actually worked - until violent gangs slowly took over. And you probably know how the rest of that story goes, they even made a movie about it…
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But if he’s older and I’m 33, that’s worse - because eventually, anarcho-capitalists have to face the fact that their worldview is naive and it’s a pitty that some of them never mature. Strongly recommend a book about it - Robert Nozick (Anarchy, State, and Utopia, 1974).
We can’t completely get rid of the state. We need it. We need the police (although we can argue), we need government, law, system (democracy / monarchy - pick your poison) - just 0.001% of what we have today.
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Holy I’m an idiot publishing it for the forth time in a row.
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Also, rothbard destroys nozick in ethics of liberty
I hear same arguments from communist on the other side. It would work if only X Y Z. That said - we need state. For me preferably monarchy. It’s cheap, it steals way less than democracy governments.
I agree monarchy is preferable to a democracy bc at least it draws a stark line between the ruled and rulers. Not to mention the lower time preference of the rulers
Maybe it’s a bad analogy, but I think I understand exactly what you’re saying, because on a micro scale, I’m an IT Product Manager - a kind of low-profile state representative - and I live off the work of developers and actual experts. For a long time, I couldn’t understand why such a role even exists in an organization, until I realized it’s necessary, because very often, without someone like me, people just spin like a cog without a drive belt. You cannot build big organizations and civilization without it.
Yup, the micro entities build on one another like Lego blocks until a macro entity forms that’s more than the sum of its parts
Thank you for sharing your thoughts, always welcome people to debate even though I know my posts are pretty aggressive. Cheers 🥂
I have to look into Rothbard finnaly.