On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 10:08 PM, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List < [email protected]> wrote:
> > ------------------------------ > *From:* meekerdb <[email protected]> > *To:* [email protected] > *Sent:* Friday, January 9, 2015 12:25 PM > *Subject:* Re: Democracy > > On 1/9/2015 4:55 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: > > Money becomes coercive under statism, because it becomes illegal to use > alternative currencies, operate outside of the banking and taxation system > and so on. > > > >>Banks used to issue their own script and in principle anyone could do > it. The trouble with anarcho-capitalism is that there's nothing to prevent > a group from organizing, forming a "government", raising an army a > conquering people around them. In fact that's exactly the arc of history. > If you want anarchy you can go to Syria or Somalia right now. > > What you describe is not the political philosophy of anarchy; what you > describe is life under warlords, and the susceptibility of anarchy to such > organized groups of thugs. > > Functioning anarchy would require a level of individual ethics that does > not yet exist (or at least is not widespread). > This is true of Anarcho-Syndicalism. The prisoner dilemma is necessarily solved through ethics. In Archo-Capitalism, the prisoner dilemma is solved by market efficiency + rational self interest: there is simply a higher reward in cooperating that defecting. Unfortunately, I think the required level of individual rationality also does not yet exist. Telmo. > Anarchy is vulnerable to being destroyed by thuggery and mayhem; no doubt > about that; however it should not be confused with that heartless outcome. > -Chris > > Brent > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
