Anarchic Law
People unfamiliar with market anarchism or libertarian anarchism often seem to mistakenly believe that the stateless (anarchic) society we advocate is one of chaos and lawlessness. Of course, this is incorrect. We recognize that human beings are social creatures who accomplish a great deal through cooperation and that they naturally come up with various voluntary systems of rules to facilitate that cooperation. The market anarchist's contention is that it's simply not justifiable for one person or group of people (a king, a 'central committee,' a democracy, a constitutional republic, etc.) to come along and claim they have the right to monopolize by force such systems of law and then proceed to forcibly extract payment for their services. Here's the first of a great 10-part video series of Roderick Long discussing an anarchist legal order at a Mises Institute Seminar: An Anarchist Legal Order.
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February 27th, 2010 - 18:40
Good stuff! I hadn’t seen him speak before.