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Murray Rothbard was a great philosopher, and I value his contributions to political philosophy.
But, just like him, some of his supporters today fail to acknowledge the fact that Samuel Edward Konkin III (a.k.a. SEK III) turned out to be a more visionary philosopher.
As for Rothbard himself, he later turned into an ordinary right-wing conservative who used some sophisticated methods to mix "libertarianism" into right-wing conservatism.
While "legal libertarians / ancaps" debated (and continue to debate) about political activity within the current system, Konkin predicted that liberation would come not through ballots and elections, but through the creation of parallel markets beyond state control.
With the advent of cryptography, Bitcoin, Tor, Monero, P2P networks, and DeFi, this theory has become practice.
Technology has provided real financial privacy and freedom without the need to ask for permission from the state or from conservative libertarians who defend large businesses (which operate in tandem with the state).
Political struggle has proven to be ineffective. And it is striking that, at the time, only Konkin predicted this.
Practical freedom here and now.
While Rothbardians argue about the theory of courts and law enforcement in a hypothetical of an AnCap state in vacuum, agorists and crypto-anarchists are using encryption and DeFi to bypass taxes, sanctions, and regulations in real time.
Published at
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