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"Pure nonsense"... is that your educated critique, or are you just trolling to make space for a straw man argument? Because I get the sense that you haven't rea
by seanccox 13y ago
"Pure nonsense"... is that your educated critique, or are you just trolling to make space for a straw man argument? Because I get the sense that you haven't read enough about anarchism if you think it constitutes 'no government'.
- javert 13y agoMaybe you are actually pointing out a misunderstanding I have. I thought "anarchism" meant "no government." If it doesn't, why don't anarchists use a different term? Can you think of a more descriptive term? It is certainly the case that anarcho-capitalists are for "no government."
- klez 13y agoBecause anarchism was defined in the late 1800's, anarcho-capitalism is a definition of Rothbard, made on an unpublished note in 1949. So why should anarcho-capitalsts dictate what 'anarchy' means, especially when the ethymological sense is 'absence of regulating principle' and not 'absence of state'? EDIT: corrected year of unpublished Rothbard note