I cannot say it better than Amanda Billyrock (‘This is the last argument I will direct toward self-professed “minarchists”.‘). I will not try, but I will add a few observations that she has inspired in me. If one’s idea of freedom is attached to the idea that the state must cease, then one will forever…
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Holding on to Collectivized Security
Editor’s Pick. Written by Shawn Gregory. As an anarchist, I am accustomed to getting grief from conservatives, progressives, and Statists of other stripes, but among libertarians, I occasionally get significant grief from those with whom should otherwise be on much friendlier terms: minarchists. Generally speaking, there are two types of minarchists. The first kind of…
Thoughts on Minarchism
Written by Will Porter for the Independent Register. Minarchists claim that we need to have an institution who levies taxation just for some essential services. They claim that without this agency doing this, we would have all kinds of terrible problems, starving children, etc. Voluntaryists claim that these services would be provided though, through the…
Stephan Kinsella
“Toward Freedom” is an Everything-Voluntary.com series sharing personal stories about the journey toward freedom. Archived stories can be found here. Submit your story to the editor. Originally published in I Chose Liberty: Autobiographies of Contemporary Libertarians. Unlike many libertarians who dally with socialism before seeing the light, I have never been attracted to leftism. Indeed, although…
Why Objective Law Requires Anarchy
Guest post by Roderick Long. While libertarians all agree on the need for a drastic reduction in the size and power of the state, the libertarian movement has long been divided between the anarchists, who believe that the state should be done away with entirely, and the minarchists, who wish to reduce it to a…