The Colonization Cost Theory of Anarchic Emergence
When the State faces high costs of colonizing land, it may allow anarchic settlement, then appropriate it. Two cases of Russian religious sects demonstrate this.
When the State faces high costs of colonizing land, it may allow anarchic settlement, then appropriate it. Two cases of Russian religious sects demonstrate this.
Is this trend toward soft secession necessarily illiberal? Is the potential for creating more states or political subdivisions, even if smaller and less sclerotic, moving us further from an idealized Hoppean private community model?
Much of the resistance to libertarian anarchic proposals stems from a genuine inability on the part of one’s audience to entertain such proposals as serious alternatives to the status quo.
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