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I would dismiss it. I use to be part of this movement. It's a hopelessly depoliticized ideology that believes it's going to inherit the world, because they reckon based on their a priori axiomatic reasoning that the nation state's contradictions will lead to a certain collapse.

Complex adaptive systems exist and persist and thrive in spite of contradictions. Even your body is filled with contradictions. The simple act of digesting food introduces poisons into your blood stream, as byproducts of metabolic processes. Your body has to maintain negative feedback loops, to compensate for these shocks and filter them out. Contradictions are NOT fatal to the stability of complex systems. They actually can't exist without contradiction because of thermodynamics.

It's all utopian nonsense.

dario 2y ago

With all due respect, you don’t know that. And can’t possibly know. If you’d like to borrow from biology, in regards to your example, do not forget the powerful and inevitable effects of evolution.

History may not have accessible examples of anarcho-capitalism, however the industrial epoch may be the anomaly here and may not best predict what may occur in the Information Age, when people have more options to leave and defund the nation-state of their birth.

Even in the USA there is a growing immigrant population (economic migrants) which care not about the culture war or the “American dream platitude. Many in the West consider themselves visitors. The fabric is loose.

People flock to where they’re treated best. Only 1% of the population cares about the moral tic for tac between powers

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Mike Brock 2y ago

At least historical examples are something! Not just some set of a priori axioms dreamt up in the head of Hitler-sympathezer (Rothbard) and his insane contemporary, Hoppe.

Look, I get it. It feels simple, neat, and self-consistent. A perfect set of rules for humans to live by, maximize freedom and cooperation, and thrive in peace.

The problem is it's no more compatible with human nature than communism. But you all can go on predicting a Book of Revelations-like moment for the nation state and the emergence of sovereign individuals walking around, interacting through pure capitalism. It's a fun story, at least!