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THulsey's avatar

"[Does] liberalism without monopoly states remain liberalism"?

That is the heart of the matter.

The nearly 400 year history of the state form of government (dating from the Treaty of Westphalia) inextricably binds the two. This is why ersatz group rights multiply as the state metastasizes.

A monopoly state that guarantees true individual rights is a squared circle of contradiction.

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Rightful Freedom's avatar

Maybe I'm missing something, but in what way are (low) Hunter Gatherer tribes NOT (high) Decentralized, Polycentric Orders? (Unless we imagine, wrongly, that most tribes are or were hierarchies of control, with the chiefs being autocratic Big Men who acted as dictators.) BTW am reading Underthrow book and enjoying it. Yes, Jefferson was right!

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