The Humungous (The Road Warrior)

I'm astounded that adults argue this so-called philosophy. But, not only are the anarchists among us, they are loud and repetitive and seek to influence every popular movement that arises. In this case it's the Occupy movement, which is now torn betwen MoveOn.org's not so veiled takeover bid and a lot of anarchists who decry all things "state." The cornucopia of their pseudo-political chatter disguises their tiny numbers.



"...we can say that Hayek's knowledge problem will, in a stateless society, even impact "governance" in the sense of how enterprises provide dispute resolution and security services. We can't predict the details of how free people will choose to organize provision of these services. The forms of such organization would be an open-ended matter, subject to free experimentation and resulting diversity."

"Market anarchists, however, typically disagree that the economic status quo is a result of a free market economy and instead tend to attribute systematic economic injustice to market intervention by the state -- that is, to divergence from the free market ideal of absolutely zero state intervention in the economy."

"A state is not governance based upon the consent of the governed, but conquest under a false pretense of legitimacy."

Joe Giambrone is a filmmaker and author of Hell of a Deal: A Supernatural Satire. He edits The Political Film Blog, which welcomes submissions. polfilmblog at gmail.