(urth) Gene Wolfe Fans Talk Politics (Again)

[James Wynn]

> 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.