On Monday, July 9, 2018, 4:30:14 AM PDT, Zenaan Harkness
   <zen@freedbms.net> wrote:
   Is Libertarianism Utopian?
   [1]https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-07-08/libertarianism-utopian
   >Authored by Duncan Whitmore via The Mises Institute,
   >Libertarianism – and any political position that leans towards a
   greater degree of freedom from the state – is opposed both ethically
   and economically on a number of substantive grounds. The proposition
   that without the state we would have inequality, destitution for the
   masses, rampant greed, and so on is a familiar charge which attempts
   to point out that libertarianism is undesirableand/or unjustifiable.
   I will read the full essay later today, when I have more time.  I view
   this as a person who has a unique perspective, having invented the
   Assassination Politics idea, see at: [2]https://cryptome.org/ap.htm
   In about 1975, when I first learned about libertarianism and the
   Libertarian Party, I knew I was already a lifetime libertarian, as I
   still am.  I was a minarchist libertarian, not because I wanted to see
   some remnent of government survive, but instead because even then I
   realize that there would be a problem with a libertarian/anarchist
   government surviving against attack from outside, non-libertarian
   societies..   I was not aware of David Friedman, son of economist
   Milton Friedman, and I also was not aware of Friedman's "Hard Problem"
    from his 1973/1989/2014 book, The Machinery of Freedom.
   [3]http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Machinery_3d_Edition/The%20Hard%20Prob
   lem%20II.htm
   I continued to be a minarchist Libertarian until January 1995.  At that
   point, I hit upon an idea that I believed, and still believe, will
   inevitably usher in a libertarian AND anarchist society.  And by
   "inevitably", I mean that quite literally.  Once implemented, my AP
   idea will inexorably destroy and dissolve all other governments,
   leading to an anarchist and libertarian society.
                  Jim Bell

References

   1. https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-07-08/libertarianism-utopian
   2. https://cryptome.org/ap.htm
   3. http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Machinery_3d_Edition/The Hard Problem II.htm