Comments on: Anarchy is workable, Statism is not

By: Statism is utopian? Maybe not so much. « Check Your Premises

Statism is utopian? Maybe not so much. « Check Your Premises — Sun, 11 May 2008 17:37:04 +0000

[...] May, 2008 In reply to my recent blog post Statism is utopian, John of blagnet.net wrote a reply on why my proposition that a workable system cannot emerge from an unworkable situation has to be [...]

By: Francois Tremblay

Francois Tremblay — Sun, 11 May 2008 17:30:50 +0000

Like I said, it is a purely theoretical position.

By: John

John — Sat, 10 May 2008 22:45:35 +0000

Ah, I see, good point. If you didn’t claim that anarchy was capable of evolving from a state, then that means you didn’t claim a workable situation would arise from an unworkable one.

I wonder, though, whether anarcho-capitalists should advocate the subversion and shrinking of the State with the goal of helping society progress to a more prosperous and peaceful anarchic condition, or if we should just say, “Anarcho-capitalism would work better,” as a thought exercise and not advocate or hope for its implementation.

It won’t be widespread or even exist anywhere in our grandchildren’s lifetimes, so it isn’t practical to expect to just get rid of governments quickly or soon, but what should we expect or hope for? What do you mean when you say you do not claim that you thought anarchy was possible? You didn’t claim it in that post or you don’t think we can ever get market-anarchism from the remains of a nation-state? I’m typically a little more optimistic than that…

By: Francois Tremblay

Francois Tremblay — Sat, 10 May 2008 06:40:51 +0000

Touche sir. Touche. You have indeed proven me wrong in a beautiful way. I concede and will make a post to that effect soon.

I do not want to rationalize my defeat at all, but it should be noted that I did not claim that I thought Anarchy was possible. My position is still theoretically coherent.