(urth) Gene Wolfe Fans Talk Politics (Again)
James Wynn
crushtv at gmail.com
Tue May 19 14:18:52 PDT 2009
> I am merely offering Somalia as the closest approach to the ideal of a
> complete lack of functional civil society and to a Hobbesian all-
> against-all of which I am currently aware.
> I don't think it was founded as a Libertopia. I think it does
> approximate the end state of a society in which there is not a
> government.
Libertarians and classical Liberals do not call for the withering away of
the state. That's some other political philosophy.
>From an L/L stand-point, I could reasonably compare Somalia's economy-based
on piracy to a Welfare State system. But then Gene Wolfe already did.
J.
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