>>Friedman himself points to "dark-age" Iceland as an example of a perfectly functional anarchy, a successful society operating functionally in the absence of "public" law. <<
Friedman discredited on Iceland SEE... Ordered Anarchy, State, And Rent-Seeking: The Icelandic Commonwealth, 930-1262 Birgir T. Runolfsson Solvason's PhD thesis. "I will not discuss my dissatisfaction with some political interpretations that I do not think are justified; such as claiming that the Commonwealth is an example of libertarianism or anarcho-capitalism in practice (see Friedman 1989a;1989b). This interpretation of the Commonwealth is not warranted, and the reasons for why it is not, will become apparent in this thesis." Is Medieval Iceland an example of "anarcho"-capitalism working in practice? An excellent left-libertarian refutation of this position. Part of An Anarchist FAQ Webpage. Some rebuttals are available at David Friedman's home page. small wonder he lives in a high taxing state,like Mongo,he is a rank hypocrite. >>No one, in considerably more than a decade of his promoting the idea on the net and discussing it in places like cypherpunks and elsewhere, has pointed to a prior claim on any idea even remotely approaching Cryto-Anarchy in it's originality. And it is the idea of Crypto-Anarchy, whether anyone knows about it or not, that makes Tim May probably the most influential person on the net today. << You can retire now Mongo,stop being the embarrassing older relative with the bad manners and worse breath. If you stick around you'll just be torn to bits by the young lions,they know now that you can bleed so they'll start to work on the wound.You don't want that do you? Just say 'anarchy is as anarchy does' and go and raise turnips or something. >>Wagner and Nietzsche<< Prefer Stirner to N,less to read and twice as useful.As for W,did I tell about the time him and Bakunin were fighting in the streets in Dresden in 48? W may have even modelled Siegfried on Bakky.Kulture on C/punks! Who'dave thunk it!? >>So, I suppose that, rather than killing the all the lawyers, :-), people who do strong cryptography on the internet are doing something even better, to my mind. They're actually making the legal professions unprofitable. If we must thump our chests like ubermenschen,<< Yes. >cypherpunks are actually just threatening to starve lawyers, and their children, into submission.<< I can live with that.Tell me a boatload of lawyers just sank.
