The nature of anarchism (Lefty Despair etc.)

[Gordon Fitch]

jks:
> 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.

Max B. Sawicky:
> Don't the arrangements Chuck0 envisions require a whole
> lotta state as well?  If groups of workers are going to
> conduct commerce with each other, don't you still need
> property rights, contracts, and tort law?

The theory is that whatever social structures the anarchists
set up will be voluntary and transparent and that people
will adhere to them because they wish to, not because they
are compelled to.

-- Gordon