-- At 09:20 PM 10/18/2000 -0600, Anonymous wrote:
Crypto-anarchy is in fact not really anarchy, since it only addresses some kinds of authority, ie government, and only in certain situations. True anarchy involves the dissolution of other hierarchical relationships, including those that spring from private property. Get rid of private property and many of these problems disappear.
Been tried. Without property rights to separate one man's plan from another man's plan, only one plan can be permitted, and any pursuit of alternate goals, or pursuit of the same goals through alternate methods is "wrecking", and must be crushed. Without property rights in the means of production there there can only be one plan, and one set of planners, to which all must submit. The alternative to private property rights in the means of production is a single plan, one plan for all, one plan that must be imposed on all, which necessitates unending terror, as we have invariably and uniformly seen in practice.
How does crypto-anarchy/libertarian/anarchy propose to deal with the "tragedy of the commons" where by doing what is best for each persons own interests they end up screwing it up for everyone (Overgrazing land with to many cattle is the example I've been given).
Private ownership of the land by cattle ranchers, enforced by the shotguns of the ranchers. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG hSmIic5Al/w7hGtJlqTJKmNvQK/JiO7KTgxjLT1y 4Vq+KMdyYfiwbwRen/HFA5EAOV6jg0yxpm6Y+2Ub2