posted by Steve | 2:17 PM
Anarchic Civilization
It's gaining ground.
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6 Comments:
Great start from the TFG, lol.
A question for you Steve (near the end of this post):
Even if Somalia chose to have no federal government, it would still retain its natural law. Their natural law, I believe, is called Xeer/Shari'a (a hybrid).
So, even without government, this natural law can restrict liberty a great deal. The State of the World Liberty Project does not have a high opinion of their natural law.
http://www.stateofworldliberty.org/report/
(click data: individual freedom link on right side) This disturbs me.
So, even without a fed gov in Somalia, would it remain less 'anarchic' than non-socialist northern European nations?
A follow-up question,
Is it the common opinion of anarchists that a society's natural law will evolve quickly towards greater liberty (and modernize) with a lack of mandatory government?
It's a simple virtuous circle. Freedom promotes broad-based wealth creation. Broad-based wealth creation allows more and more people to acquire ever more sophisticated weapons. This, in turn, promotes freedom, i.e., makes it more and more difficult (expensive) for anyone to impose their will on others (unless the "others" are criminals in the eyes of the populace).
Broad based wealth creation (thanks to freedom) is a key factor in modernization, not only in the technical sense but also, I think, in the sense of abandoning barbaric anti-freedom practices (female genital mutilation comes to mind, as well as all sorts of punishments of victimless crimes).
If Somalia gets a low score in the area of freedom of the press, it's probably because of meddling in Somalia's politics on the part of foreign governments, replacing decentralized polical arrangements in favor of more centralized ones.
Correction: "with" more centralized ones.
I see. So, without government to tax, people keep their wealth, and then laws become freer.
Another question, do you know if there is a section/clan in Somalia which is most libertarian? Like NH or VT is in the USA, for instance.
No, I don't.
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