Three decades ago, I published “Do We Ever Really Get Out of Anarchy?” The answer I gave is that we do not, that government only substitutes one kind of anarchy for another. In this paper I revisit the eponymous question, drawing on Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau, as well as several contemporary scholars, for support.
Revisiting “Do We Ever Really Get Out of Anarchy?”
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Cuzan, Alfred G. “Revisiting “Do We Ever Really Get Out of Anarchy?”.” Journal of Libertarian Studies 22, No. 1 (2010): 3–21.