Anarcho Capitalism and the Free State Project

I consider myself an anarcho capitalist so let's get into that. I'm more of a mid-archist but definitely came across this term libertarian, got active in libertarian politics and then what really changed in graduate school was coming to realize that libertarian politics would never work at the national level in the United States. To me this is a little bit of a kind of Hayekian position which is that to posit some sort of ideal political order is to think that we can through our reason design society. So it could be that anarcho capitalism would work. We just don't have the evidence for that. Yeah, there's Somalia out there but it's really hard to apply lessons from Somalia

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