Re: AC: The Economics of Revolutions
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State-like parties (professional mobs running protection rackets) will spring up almost immediately after the creation of a significant site of ACness.
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Because you say so?
I've explained numerous times why this would not occur in a modern, technologically advanced capitalist society based on a high degree of the division of labor.
The only markets in which criminal mobs and gangs spring up are precisely those markets that are monopolized, i.e. made black, by the central mob, the state. Violence is not +EV when free competition is allowed. It is only when government outlaws free competition that the competition becomes populated with outlaws.
The logic and the lessons of history are clear. If the state does not outlaw free competition in an industry organized gangs of criminals simply cannot compete with legitimate businesses. Witness what happens to every industry that is made black, and then witness what happens when it is made legal again.
Governments arose for particular reasons which are no longer applicable. Hence, if we could manage to get rid of them (without restoring the conditions that led to their emergence, which I am not at all sure is possible), they would not appear again.
Your whole post spins out of control from this false premise, and hence is totally invalid.
But it's nice to see you at least acknowledge that the state is nothing more than a large organized criminal protection racket.
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