The Bontou stand system was a way to strip black South Africans of their citizenship and re code them as being the citizens of these artificially created ethnically black homelands. So you would not have any citizenship rights, not that you had any anyway, but that wouldn't even be on the horizon. The attempts by the black workers within that homeland to organize, which were incessant in the face of life threatening danger, those efforts were being stamped out with murderous violence. And so this was, according to South Africa, their act of decolonizing, they were giving the blacks their own countries, and they stopped bothering us about being a racist country.
Featuring Quinn Slobodian on Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy. Radical libertarians, including anarcho-capitalists like Murray Rothbard, envision a world of micro-polities governed by private property and contract. In fact, we already live in their world, a world of zones—places where special rules tailor-made for capitalists prevail over the ordinary laws of the nation-state.
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