On 27 September 2011 19:21, Dan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dan_ust@yahoo.com">dan_ust@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Knowing many actual minarchists, I'm not so sure. Minarchists -- people who believe in a libertarian state (an oxymoron by my reckoning) -- are often the most vehements critics of anarchism in any form, including market anarchism. Granted, some minarchists do, no doubt, become anarchists; probably most market anarchists went through an evolution from minarchist to anarchist. But that most market anarchists were once minarchists doesn't mean most minarchists will become anarchists.<br>
</blockquote><div><br><br>I found this interesting - Just for the record, it was the other way around for me. I started out as a teenage anarchist, with an educated understanding of anarchism, but a pretty half-baked understanding of AnCap. As time went by I decided there was need for some kind of State to handle certain functions I see as essential or even laudable for the government to handle, and so figured that made me a Minarchist.<br>
<br>That would almost certainly be the point at which I was no longer a libertarian according to the non-coercion principle, but I don't remember anyone pointing this out to me at the time. That leaves me in what currently seems a strange no-man's-land, in which I personally advocate government with a strictly bounded jurisdiction, but it seems cannot accurately call myself a Minarchist, and even less so a libertarian.<br>
<br>- A<br></div></div>