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Daily Poll 30: Are you a statist or an anarchist?
<div>It was sometime in the second year of the 15 days to slow the spread of Covid I’ve embraced anarchy. If these covid restrictions never happened or just ended soon enough there is a good chance that I would have remained a statist although to me it was a necessary evil and not a force that has ever been or could be used for good. What’s your perspective on the state?</div>
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Perhaps you could provide an explanation so people can know the differences.
I know Eric explains it and directs towards M Rothbard & towards Mises, but I think it’s a valid question, and I know I’ve been giving it consideration for several months…
At this point I don’t have any arguments against Minarchist or Anarchist, and Pete Quinones has had several videos contemplating how things would have been had ‘we the people’ stayed under Monarchy.
It’s a great question, and worth giving deep consideration to.
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Thanks for the response! I figured most people would know but I’ll define the terms the best I can here:
A statist is someone who believes the State has a right to exist and should enjoy all of the powers it currently has.
An anarchist is someone who does not believe the state should exist and society should only exist through voluntary organizations
A minanarchist is someone who believes the state should only exist to protect private property. Prosecute violent criminals and to enforce contracts whether this state should be funded by taxation is debated amongst minanarchists.
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I was, more or less, always distrustful of the federal gov’t, but it as much as I am now. I thought taxes were a necessary evil, but really liked the “taxation is theft” slogan, even if I just saw it as a meme.
Summer 2020 comes, and all I could do while watching dozens of cities set ablaze by a bunch of fucking communists while arresting people defending their businesses or tryna keep them afloat during the “pandemic” is just ask “the government allows this?!” Conveniently, YouTube started recommending YoungRippa59 to me, and I eventually read The Anatomy of the State. Truly opened my eyes, and from that day I became a Christian Anarcho-Capitalist.