Editor’s Pick. Written by Robert Higgs.
Propose that the state be replaced by genuine self-government and immediately people come forth with a litany of objections—anarchy is a pipe dream; it is untried; it would never work; is fails to solve problem R and problem S; and so forth. So the objectors, however much they may concede that the state conducts itself atrociously, always conclude that they prefer it to any proposed alternative.
What none of the objectors ever recognizes, in my experience, is that retention of the state is practically a guarantee of humanity’s ultimate destruction. Why?
