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| Mar 17, 2010 4:19 am |
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re: Barriers to transition to benevolent anarchy |
Thomas Holford
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Ken Hilving sayeth:
> Perhaps the first barrier to creating a benevolent anarchy form of government is the legal barrier.
> Texas has a number of state codes regarding local governments. (source http://law.justia.com/texas/codes/lg.html)
> TITLE 2. ORGANIZATION OF MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT
Kind of interesting.
I have to confess that in the past I have more or less advocated what you are proposing to do.
My frame of reference was a bit different. In passionate exchanges with advocates of socialism in its various guises, I have proposed to them from time to time the possibility of "privatizing socialism".
The problem with conventional socialism is that everyone in society is coerced into paying for and receiving the blessings and restrictions of socialism whether they are welcomed or not.
It would make more sense as well as making a greater number of people happier and fulfilled if the broad constitutional charter of society were libertarian, allowing the greatest individual freedom and the most minimal powers for government.
Those people who appreciated the maximum freedom would live happily ever after in a low tax, low government society.
Those people who wanted to live under socialism, could apply for a charter from the libertarian government and set up their own voluntary private socialist society, enroll members, tax themselves to their eyeballs and offer all sorts of lavish and extravagant benefits, as well as rules and regulations constraining every aspect of their lives. They, too, could live happily ever after in their idyllic private socialist community.
So, it strikes me that your effort to establish a "benevolent anarchy" is ultimately consistent with my previously held notion of "privatizing socialism". I guess I never considered that it would serve just as well to "privatize benevolent anarchy".
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