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[–]ctvzbuxr 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

As long as you're willing to let others be free, in my opinion, anything goes. I think it would be a terrible idea, but if someone wants to have his Anarcho-Marxist commune, that's totally fine as long as I can still live my capitalism. That being said, I don't think that's ever going to happen, because the consensus seems to be that marxism can only be achieved if everyone is forced to participate. And that is not compatible with anarchism whatsoever.

I don't know who John Mark is, and I don't want to get into it right now, but again, anything goes as long as you let others be free.

Minarchism is a great gateway drug for freedom. Or, to use a more positive metaphor: It is like a nicotine patch for people who want to quit the drug of politicial power but can't get there quite yet. I would much rather live in a minarchist society than what we have now, and I see minarchists as my allies in the fight for a more free world. I am very much for practical solutions, for making the world better here and now. If all we can achieve at the moment is a mostly free society, I'm all on board with that.