Ep. 508 Gene Callahan Argues Murphy’s AnCap Vision Is Just a State
Drawing on the work of British idealist philosopher Bernard Bosanquet, Callahan argues that standard depictions of an “anarcho-capitalist” society, whether practical or not, would constitute a “State.”
Mentioned in the Episode and Other Links of Interest:
- The YouTube version of this episode.
- Gene Callahan’s article on anarchism.
- Bob’s pamphlet, Chaos Theory.
- Help support the Bob Murphy Show.
About the author, Robert
Christian and economist, Chief Economist at infineo, and Senior Fellow with the Mises Institute.
Haven’t had a chance to listen to the show yet, but I’d argue that it’s the exact opposite – all these states are actually just anarchy and most people are cattle who can’t seem to figure it out.
Lame. “Intellectual Property” law is evil, Bob wasn’t able to muster the courage to say this obvious truth, chose to backstab Kinsella instead. Probably cuz Callahan is Christian? Why else betray a friend and morality? Sure, companies might try to enforce it (in general, people will be tempted by evil, sure) … but it’s evil. Disney has no jurisdiction in Liberland, nor in my Seastead, nor in The Shire in New Hampshire.
The fogging over the definition of “the state”, still in TWENTY TWENTY SIX, was also way too awkward. City-states (“citadels”) are fine. Consent is essential, the ability to opt-out. Zzz.
Callahan is evil. There’s no excuse for this cringe equivocation today, that was so ’90s.
When did I backstab Kinsella? Do you have a rough timestamp?
Callahan was promoting evil IP laws, you did not tell him he was wrong – you knew that this was one of Kinsella’s main missions in life. But more importantly you “backstabbed morality” … why didn’t you tell him he was wrong/immoral? You could have done it in a polite way too, I thought friends didn’t let friends go to hell. Is Callahan even aware that you think IP laws are evil? (You /do/ think that, right?)