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>On Thu, 26 Sep 2002 at 1:35pm Chuck Munson wrote:
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> > "Anarcho-capitalism" is an oxymoron. There are a few
> > mutualist anarchists who advocate economics that could
> > be viewed as quasi forms of small "c" capitalism, but
> > those people who call themselves "anarcho-capitalists"
> > are just deluded.
> >
> > For the most part, anarchists advocate some form of
> > socialism, communism, or economic cooperation without
> > capitalism.
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>Do you tell people they mispronounce their own names too?
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>
Chuck has a point. As Nozick realized, capitalism requires a regime of enforceable property rights and contract and tort law. Therefore it requires a state, so no anarchism. Right wing libertarians tend to be minimal-staters--jets and jails, as an old TA of mine who liked the view once put it. He might have added, judges.
jks
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