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Did you read the article in the least? Anarchism literally opposes both a “single public sector overlord” and “multiple private sector overlords”


What good is being opposed to both of those things if there is no way to implement a situation without at least one of them? The single public sector monopoly on violence is the least bad alternative, because if it were to vanish the vacuum it leaves would quickly and inevitably be filled by the first strongmen who can raise an army via whatever means at their disposal. And that would be far worse than the single public sector overlord.


And works about as well as any other perpetual motion machine.




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