On 1/9/2015 1:15 PM, Telmo Menezes wrote:
On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 10:08 PM, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ *From:* meekerdb <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> *To:* [email protected] <mailto:[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.
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