Difference between revisions of "No Libertarians in the Seventeenth-Century Highlands"
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| + | {{URL | url = http://engforum.pravda.ru/showthread.php?64977-No-Libertarians-in-the-Seventeenth-Century-Highlands}} | ||
| + | {{DES | des = [[Brad DeLong]] ridicules a debate held at the Reason magazine 35th anniversary banquet, skewering the wishful thinking of [[David Friedman]]. Private coercive enforcement, warlords, organized crime: they are all the same thing.}} | ||
| + | {{Old URL | url = http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/movable_type/2004_archives/000423.html}} | ||
[This is a copy of a posting from Brad DeLong.] | [This is a copy of a posting from Brad DeLong.] | ||
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Davey Hume: And it is only after the state has enabled commerce, and only after commerce has sweetened human nature, that one can even begin to entertain the anarchist-libertarian fantasies of the withering away of the state... | Davey Hume: And it is only after the state has enabled commerce, and only after commerce has sweetened human nature, that one can even begin to entertain the anarchist-libertarian fantasies of the withering away of the state... | ||
| − | Joseph de Maistre: What my good friend Davey Hume is saying, although he is too polite to put it this way, is that behind everything good, peaceful, and prosperous in human society is the shadow of the Public Executioner... | + | Joseph de Maistre: What my good friend Davey Hume is saying, although he is too polite to put it this way, is that behind everything good, peaceful, and prosperous in human society is the shadow of the Public Executioner... |
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