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Jim C.
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Securing Property Rights in the Absence of a State

- George F. Smith - Barbarous Relic

Having property rights in absence of a state (defined as objective law) is like having a meal in the absence of food. It ain't very satisfying.

And who or what will arbitrate or enforce a conflict over property rights? Private groups who somehow will agree to the abritrage of another private group? Anybody against the campaign doner/bribery issue with today's politicians will quickly see the same issue resurface in a stateless 'society'.

Stateless societies (an oxymoron) quickly evolve into protective families, clans, criminal organizations, cartels -- and eventually dictatorship.

It is the State we need with objective law and power limited to protecting citizens from internal and external enemies. Anything more, as we have now, needs radical trimming.

Murray Rothbard lived in a dreamworld.

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Beginning of the headline : Many Rothbardians are vowing not to vote in this or any election since voting only supports the State.But I wonder if they could be persuaded otherwise if they knew one of the ballot choices were to dissolve the governments and replace them with voluntary market institutions.Of course, we don’t have that choice, and most people would either laugh or be scared to death if it were proposed... Read More

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