From: Randall R Randall (rrandall6@juno.com)
Date: Sun Jan 18 1998 - 20:30:18 MST
On Sun, 18 Jan 98 19:14 GMT0 anduril@cix.compulink.co.uk (Tony Hollick)
writes:
> Landlords charge rent: States charge taxes. Most states let you
>leave, most of the time. Most landlords ditto. I had the following
>argument with David Ramsay Steele, an anarcho-capitalist theoretician.
>Agorism and anarcho-capitalism are fundamentally different ideas, so we
>argued a lot... He attacked me and threatened to kill me once or twice.
>From Konkin's writings, I got the idea that agorism is just
anarcho-capitalism in practice right now. Is your version
different? How would an a-c theoretician justify attacking you,
anyway?
> It seems to me, I said playfully, that any crafty group of
>capitalist could replicate the evils of government in a pre-existing
>anarcho-capitalist society by focusing their resources on buying a key
>resource, then imposing conditions of use on it: i.e. fervent Islamic
>capitalists could buy the roads, then make adherence to Islam a
condition
>of use for all the customers. They aren't interested in selling the
roads
>again, remember, nor do they care about maximizing their _financial_
>return on capital.
>
> So how would we address this problem?
If it were to become a real problem, some other crafty capitalist
would build more roads. <shrug>
> David Ramsay Steele just shrugged this off by saying "We would
>have
>a revolution, and reassign the property rights." Oh, right...
An alleged anarcho-capitalist said this? Not *my* property
rights, and I'll defend my neighbors' too, no matter what their
religion.
Wolfkin.
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Dream if you will, but remember there are iron laws.--Johnny Clegg.
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