> How can you enforce property rights and private contracts without a state? By having a state you refuse to acknowledge is a state. > the man with the larges

> How can you enforce property rights and private contracts without a state? By having a state you refuse to acknowledge is a state. > the man with the largest army / aka the local warlord See? This is a state. A local warlord capable of enforcing his laws over a given region is a state. A violent, corrupt, autocratic state, to be sure, but a state nonetheless. Calling it something else doesn't make it anything else.