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<royls@telus.net> wrote in message news:416c4ec6.22356438@news.telus.net...
> On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 16:02:52 GMT, "sinister" <sinister@nospam.invalid>
> wrote:
>
>><royls@telus.net> wrote in message news:416b7826.4909901@news.telus.net...
>>> On 11 Oct 2004 16:48:24 -0700, fbonsignore@beethoven.com (Fabrizio J.
>>> Bonsignore) wrote:
>>>
>>>>royls@telus.net wrote in message
>>>>news:<4169a3b7.20177640@news.telus.net>...
>>>>> On 9 Oct 2004 19:20:20 -0700, fbonsignore@beethoven.com (Fabrizio J.
>>>>> Bonsignore) wrote:
>>
>><snip>
>>
>>>>> >As for Europe`s development it was a _steady_ affair since the
>>>>> >breaking down of the Roman Empire,
>>>>>
>>>>> False.
>>>>>
>>>>Nothing changed much for 1000 years,
>>>
>>> Wrong.  The end of Roman power in the West created the anarchist
>>> utopia otherwise known as feudalism.  This system gradually evolved
>>> over the centuries into the monarchical nation-states of the early
>>> modern era.
>>
>>In what precise way was feudalism anarchistic?
>
> When Roman power vanished from the Western Empire in the 5th C, there
> was no government.  It was literal anarchy.  Wealthy landholders with
> private armies stepped into the vacuum, and feudalism began.
> Feudalism was precisely the kind of government-free, contract-based
> societal system modern anarcho-dreamers like David Friedman, Murray
> Rothbard et al advocate.

Correct...

I suppose you know this link?

http://geolib.pair.com/essays/sullivan.dan/royallib.html

It'd be nice if someone regularly posted to the main libertarian newsgroups 
with a subject line "Libertarians are feudalists."

Mike Huben's "Critiques Of Libertarianism" mentions somewhere the Georgist 
critique of Libertarianism (meaning, the non-geo, right-libertarianism that 
we encounter so often).  I think it deserves first mention, because it's the 
one thing that shows libertarianism, as commonly construed, to be morally 
incoherent.

>
> -- Roy L