What I find among the most troubling, and I am certain you will identify with this, is the number of ostensible libertarians who believe that "a little government" is better than none. We used to call them minarchists, but that term might be passe. (One of my first ever pieces for LRC was an "answer" to a minarchist who had written me a long diatribe lamenting my belief in anarchy. Good times!) A fantastic essay, written years ago by Alfred Cuzán, provides what I see as the truth. Link: https://mises.org/journal-libertarian-studies/do-we-ever-really-get-out-anarchy.
That is, I agree with you about anarchism, rightly construed. However, I am also under no illusions about how that easy such would and should be implemented starting from right here, right now. Despite my A sympathies I find the minarchist/anarchist debates wholly irrelevant compared with moving the needle directionally.
What I find among the most troubling, and I am certain you will identify with this, is the number of ostensible libertarians who believe that "a little government" is better than none. We used to call them minarchists, but that term might be passe. (One of my first ever pieces for LRC was an "answer" to a minarchist who had written me a long diatribe lamenting my belief in anarchy. Good times!) A fantastic essay, written years ago by Alfred Cuzán, provides what I see as the truth. Link: https://mises.org/journal-libertarian-studies/do-we-ever-really-get-out-anarchy.
Unexpectedly, but fortunately, I see Cuzán has "revisited" that paper, which he wrote thirty years ago, with a new analysis, but the same conclusion! Link: https://mises.org/journal-libertarian-studies/revisiting-do-we-ever-really-get-out-anarchy.
Bizarrely, the older I get the more I tend to agree.
That is, I agree with you about anarchism, rightly construed. However, I am also under no illusions about how that easy such would and should be implemented starting from right here, right now. Despite my A sympathies I find the minarchist/anarchist debates wholly irrelevant compared with moving the needle directionally.
Where does he write these things? I found this; is this it? https://unenumerated.blogspot.com/