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Episode 175: Listener Special #6

Words & Numbers

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Why Anarchy Is Untenable

Anarchists are universally going to stand astride communism or even socialism. If they think that a minimal government is worse than what we should have, clearly a big, powerful, all-encompassing government is going to be worse than that. Anarchy is such a great idea but when has it ever existed? When did it work? You can't because no examples exist and no examples exist here for exactly the same reason they don't exist on the socialism consideration. But I do aspire to an anarchist life where you hate political power structure with no bad person in charge. That's when things really go wrong.

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