An Anarchist Text?
Is Economic Justice and Natural Law an anarchist text? I am a market anarchist: I reject the legitimacy of any entity that claims or seeks to exercise a monopoly of force in a given territory and I favor the existence of legal rules in a stateless society that would protect property rights and market exchanges. That will obvious to anyone who’s read this blog or comments I’ve made elsewhere on-line. And it will be, if anything, more obvious to anyone who’s read my forthcoming book The Conscience of an Anarchist . It may not be so clear, however, to anyone who reads Economic Justice and Natural Law . I reflected on this with a little amusement when I visited the book’s Amazon page yesterday. People who’d purchased “related items” had “also bought,” e.g. , Human Action and Ron Paul’s End the Fed . What would readers of End the Fed think of EJNL ? I suspected that a number of them would be puzzled. To be sure, EJNL is primarily about what it is reasonable for individuals to do, not a...