No Libertarians in the Seventeenth-Century Highlands: “‘In its total estrangement from our political and social life today, its wilfull disregard of all known facts about human nature, it resembles nothing so much as a debate over some fine procedural point of end-stage communism…’ … It is an interesting fact that there are no libertarians–nobody calling for the withering-away of the state–nobody calling for competition between private, profit-making, rights-enforcement organizations until the nineteenth century.”

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