Anti-Statism at Light Speed Part 4: Law & Defense

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- Law Merchant http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lex_mercatoria - Mild West: An Experiment in Anarcho-Capitalism by Terry Anderson and P.J. Hill: http://www.scribd.com/doc/41579155/An-Experiment-in-Anarcho-Capitalism-The-Not-So-Wild-Wild-West - Iceland http://foranemergentgovernance.tumblr.com/post/1517302968/iceland Ordered Anarchy: Evolution of the Decentralized Legal Order in the Icelandic Commonwealth by Birgir T. Runolfsson Solvason: http://www3.hi.is/~bthru/iep.htm The Decline and Fall of Private Law in Iceland by Roderick T. Long: http://www.libertariannation.org/a/f13l1.html Privatization, Viking Style: Model or Misfortune? by Roderick T. Long: http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig3/long1.html Private Creation and Enforcement of Law: A Historical Case by David Friedman http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Academic/Iceland/Iceland.html - Ireland: http://foranemergentgovernance.tumblr.com/post/1517339178/ireland Stateless Societies: Ancient Ireland by Joseph R. Peden: http://mises.org/journals/lf/1971/1971_04.pdf Property Rights in Celtic Irish Law by Joseph R. Peden: http://www.scribd.com/doc/41582086/Property-Rights-in-Celtic-Irish-Law For a New Liberty by Murray Rothbard, Pg. 215: http://www.mises.org/rothbard/newlibertywhole.asp#p215 Anarchy and the Law By Edward Stringham, Page 565: Preview Here: http://books.google.com/books?id=nft4e62nicsC&printsec;=frontcover Medieval Ireland, An Encyclopedia by Sen Duffy, Ailbhe MacShamhrin, James Moynes, Pg. 383: http://books.google.com/books?id=kVslRbrSH7QC&printsec;=frontcover Irish History - Brehon Law by Pat Flannery: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cN52LnC020g - Somalia: Better Off Stateless by Peter Lessen: namcub.accela-labs.com/pdf/Better_Off_Stateless.pdf http://foranemergentgovernance.tumblr.com/post/1513197705/somalia In my view there are 6 types of societies in regard to the state: 1. Pre-state society: A society whose members are of a mentality that they can form states de novo, but don't due to a lack of food surplus or are in the process of state formation (like Harappa). State formation takes longer in more spread out areas. 2. Early State Society: Where people actually worship the state and believe the state - through a king, priest, or whoever - to actually be qualitatively superior to everyone else and fit to dictate. Usually it was believed they were channeling the will of god. 3. Modern State Society: A society with a cynical "realist" view that there's nothing special about a state, it's just necessary to maintain order (Here's looking at you dipshit!). This comes from states having been around as far back as anyone can remember. 4. De facto stateless society: A society that doesn't have a centralized law-making agency but whose people fit the mentality of the modern state society. Examples of this are stateless Pennsylvania and Rhode island and various areas cascading through the mild west. 5. Stateless Society: A society of people who don't view states as legitimate and so treat them with the same skepticism they would any other firm. Thus, realizing they're bullshit, don't form states de novo. Examples of this are Somalia, Ireland and Iceland. 6. Ideologically Anti-Statist Society: A society of people who recognize the state as a positive BAD and oppose the state. Unfortunately, the only examples of this are the anarchists who couple their anti-statism with pre-marginalist LTV bugaboos and various other inane "anti-authoritarian" baubles. In some times and places people will regress from #3 to #2. The most obvious regression is Nazi Germany and perhaps Italy. Revolutionary periods appear to be prone to this regression from Modern to Early state mentalities. I believe the revolution in the USSR was a regression from a modern state - russians didn't like the czar but thought that order needed to be maintained somehow, and then when the communists started taking over the general mentality shifted back to an early state mentality. Ironically, Spain and Russia, despite being economically backward, seemed to have somewhat modern mentalities prior to revolution. The Nationalist victory in Spain, in my estimation, prevented further regression, as the nationalists actually lacked majority support (though not to the same degree as the czarists in Russia). And so more Spaniards supported the Communists than Nationalists, but the state was now Nationalist, which means most Spaniards were NOT worshipping Franco, meaning Spain was slightly in the Modern State Society category. IMO this limited the mass-killings the Franco Regime could get away with. If the communists won, Spain would have been more in the Early State category and would have drifted more that way as propaganda and public schooling took effect, resulting in the megadeaths of similar population proportion as in Germany and the USSR.