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> that wouldn't exist without the threat of government violence As I'm sure you already suppose, an anarchistic assessment of this results in a different concl

• rayiner 11y ago
  Name one anarchist civilization that has created sophisticated road networks, even in antiquity? Road construction is the archetypal government activity. You go back to 3000 BC and look at ancient Egypt's sophisticated infrastructure. How did they do it? Government. And compare that to what contemporary societies without government have left us. Pottery fragments.
  • jMyles 11y ago
    I acknowledge that absence of government hasn't worked well during history. However, what I'm saying (perhaps in fact the whole point) is that we are leaving the period called history and entering a very different space, as evidenced by the rapidity of the internet. In other words, I assert that the time for peace without government is ahead, not behind.
  • wooster 11y ago
    The stagecoach roads of the American West? (Often un-deeded right-of-ways through private lands, many now home to paved roads.)
  • refurb 11y ago
    Name one anarchist civilization that has created sophisticated road networks, even in antiquity? "Wenzhou has become one of the richest cities in China under a regulatory regime that borders on anarchism.... for the last 30 years, private citizens in this southeastern China metropolis have largely taken over one of the least questioned prerogatives of governments the world over: infrastructure."[1] [1]https://reason.com/archives/2011/11/15/chinas-black-market-city https://reason.com/archives/2011/11/15/chinas-black-market-c...