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David Friedman's work on this topic is interesting, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PnkC7CNvyI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PnkC7CNvyI for example. I thin

• freedomben 4y ago
  It might be worth mentioning that parent post is the anarcho-capitalist flavor of anarchy, which solution would sound like a dystopia to an ansoc or anarcho-communist person such as OP. I'm pretty skeptical about whether these private courts would/could work in the long term, but it is fascinating to read the theories.
  • missedthecue 4y ago
    In some sense they already exist in modern society. Most insurance companies arbitrate in private courts for instance. Public courts are too slow and inefficient.
    • 082349872349872 4y ago
      Public courts are slow and inefficient by design. The principle (and practice imx) is that most cases should settle before ever taking up much of a public court's time. Making public courts faster would reduce the incentive of the parties to avoid externalising their failure to agree onto the public.
• mathieuh 4y ago
  David Friedman appears to be a so-called “anarcho-capitalist”, which is not what this article is talking about. Anarchy is inherently incompatible with capitalism. Anarchy is the dismantling of hierarchies, the removal of rulers. Capitalism depends on hierarchies and lauds rulers.
  • missedthecue 4y ago
    Anarchism describes a way of organizing society in a cooperative way without government compulsion. The idea that it is incompatible with capitalism, which is inherently based on mutual cooperation, is something pushed retroactively by socialist anarchists. Also, the idea that hierarchies of any type cannot exist within anarchies is more socialist revisionism. Most anarchist societies over history have had hierarchies in some form or another. Somalia and Iceland's periods of anarchy are two such examples.
    • PaulDavisThe1st 4y ago
      Anarchism describes a way of organizing society in a cooperative way without government compulsion. The idea that it is compatible with capitalism, which is inherently based on exploitation of labor and asymmetric distribution of returns favoring capital, is something being pushed retroactively by capitalist anarchists.
      • missedthecue 4y ago
        I disagree out of hand that capitalism is "based" on exploitation of labor, but even if it were, exploitation and differing levels of capital return are completely compatible with anarchism. Anarchism is not a synonym for utopia. People can do bad things or simply amoral things that you happen to not like within a stateless societal framework such as anarchism.
        • maxbond 4y ago
          An anarchist society would necessarily dismantle hierarchies as they arose in an ongoing manner. If you tried to create capitalism in an anarchist society - that is to say, create a system of private property ownership whereby you could own the means of production and extract the surplus labor of a working class, without participating in the labor - that society should quickly recognize this is an unjust hierarchy that must be abolished to maintain anarchism. I think we have all experienced, living in a capitalist society, that such a system creates a very steep hierarchy where the wealthy have much more power than those without wealth. Anti-statism is not axiomatic to anarchism, it results from it's opposition to domination and the principle of means-ends unity, and opposing the state is not a sufficient condition for being an anarchist. It's worth noting anarchism was an offshoot of socialism - to say that this is a narrative projected backwards from anarchosocialists is incorrect.
• rsecora 4y ago
  s/jurisdiction/country/g That's similar to the definition of countries, international treaties and frontiers.
  • 082349872349872 4y ago
    Although while there are no involuntary de jure hierarchies among countries, de facto there are.
• kodyo 4y ago
  Sort of like jurisdictions in America that have legalized marijuana or declare themselves sanctuary cities in direct opposition to federal law.
• 082349872349872 4y ago
  > jurisdictions that didn't enforce court orders from other jurisdictions would be black-listed by those jurisdictions. *Cough* ICC *cough*?