From: Rafal Smigrodzki (rafal@smigrodzki.org)
Date: Fri Mar 21 2003 - 07:32:12 MST
On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 05:24, Amara Graps wrote:
> Hal:
> >There is a distinction between libertarians and anarchists. Most
> >libertarians believe that government should exist and take on certain
> >limited, well-defined functions.
>
> I'm a little surprised to hear this 'distinction' as I thought
> that some non-trivial percentage of libertarians subscribed to
> anarchocapitalist ideas (as I do). For example, David Friedman
> distinguished himself from his father (Milton) occasionally, his
> father subscribing to a minimal government position and his son
> not subscribing to that position, both men are libertarians,
> however. Like other anarchocapitalists, I find no find no
> conflict being both an anarchist and a libertarian.
>
### Reading the "Machinery of freedom" it seems to me that David
Friedman wasn't able to come up with a plausible anarchist solution to
the problem of defense against organized external aggression, and he
admits it.
Rafal
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