Anti-statism is not ‘Failed-state’-ism Jun 24, 2014
Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski's posts on facebook are often excellent. This example was good enough that I wanted to re-publish it here. The less-than-perfectly-pithy title is mine. Those who believe that libertarian anarchy is bound to degenerate into warlord conflict over power vacuum make the error of thinking of libertarian anarchy as "statism without the state", i.e., the situation where a territorial monopoly of violence disappears, but everything else, including the mentality that legitimizes and supports its existence, stays the same. However, what practically every libertarian anarchist claims is that a successful, permanent withering away of territorial monopolies of violence and...
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