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| 2. It is completely untrue that anarchy has never been tried and was never successful. To back up this claim, I refer you to Daniel Hawkins' excellent series, appropriately named "Anarchy: Never Been Tried," in six parts: | 1. It is completely untrue that anarchy has never been tried and was never successful. To back up this claim, I refer you to Daniel Hawkins' excellent series, appropriately named "Anarchy: Never Been Tried," in six parts: |
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| * [[Part 1|http://www.notbeinggoverned.com/anarchy-never-been-tried-part-i/]] * [[Part 2|http://www.notbeinggoverned.com/anarchy-never-been-tried-part-ii-emerald-anarchy/]] * [[Part 3|http://www.notbeinggoverned.com/anarchy-never-tried-part-3-fire-ice/]] * [[Part 4|http://www.notbeinggoverned.com/960/]] * [[Part 5|http://www.notbeinggoverned.com/anarchy-never-been-tried-part-v-anarchy-in-the-usa/]] * [[Part 6|http://www.notbeinggoverned.com/anarchy-never-tried-part-vi-living-anti-nation/]] |
* [[http://www.notbeinggoverned.com/anarchy-never-been-tried-part-i/|Part 1: Moresnet]] * [[http://www.notbeinggoverned.com/anarchy-never-been-tried-part-ii-emerald-anarchy/|Part 2: Emerald Anarchy]] * [[http://www.notbeinggoverned.com/anarchy-never-tried-part-3-fire-ice/|Part 3: Fire and Ice]] * [[http://www.notbeinggoverned.com/960/|Part 4: In the Beginning]] * [[http://www.notbeinggoverned.com/anarchy-never-been-tried-part-v-anarchy-in-the-usa/|Part 5: Anarchy in the USA]] * [[http://www.notbeinggoverned.com/anarchy-never-tried-part-vi-living-anti-nation/|Part 6: The Living Anti-Nation]] |
Fallacy:
Anarchy has never been tried successfully, so that proves that the state is necessary.
Response:
Many statists demand that anarchists show a successfully anarchic society before they will even consider that life without a state is even possible, let alone desireable. There are two problems with this fallacy:
- The argument against statism isn't a consequentialist argument, but a moral argument. No one has the right to rule anyone else. It would be like arguing that a slavery-free society is impossible because there are no successful slavery-free societies.
- It is completely untrue that anarchy has never been tried and was never successful. To back up this claim, I refer you to Daniel Hawkins' excellent series, appropriately named "Anarchy: Never Been Tried," in six parts:
Anarchy Never Been Tried