Reddit reviews Polystate: A Thought Experiment in Distributed Government

http://www.amazon.com/Polystate-Thought-Experiment-Distributed-Government-ebook/dp/B00IM5EM7W/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1393271469&sr=8-1&keywords=polystate

We would have to start by asking what you mean by capitalism, because ancaps are not capitalists in the marxist sense of the word. Our position is nearly identical to the market anarchist position on freed markets (see a source like https://c4ss.org for more information on that from a sort of leftist bent).

The question how does an ancap government work is seemingly non-sensical or trivial. The trivial answer is that an ancap government works through totally voluntary participation and compliance because it could work no other way. That being said, none of us consider economic coercion to violate this idea of voluntary participation. If I pay you to comply with my rules, that would be a form of ancap governance. That being said, I do not think there will be ancap governments, though there will almost certainly be ancap governance.

For a middle ground between what we have now and that I would reccomend a book called Polystate.

Edit: this should be in the SF thread. Whoops!

I'm trying to stretch some political-setting muscles in a setting I have stewing on this topic. It's tiring to have the same old political systems - a huge and awesome part of the Radch series, for exampe, was the unique take on fascist imperialism. I'm fascinated by polystate political systems, and hope to create an imperial metastate with a subordinate representative democracy of client substates as a sort of constrained version of Weinersmith's model. Vast diversity, under a technically united political system that does what it can to keep all of humanity under a united front.

Humanity can be united front but still exceptionally diverse. I hope to have genetic subspecies (adaptation to new environments like superearths, acoustic planets, or low-gravity asteroids) and political diversity with monarchies, communes, corporate syndicates, and theostates all tied loosely together under Imperial control.

Zach Weinersmith wrote a whole ebook on this http://www.amazon.com/Polystate-Thought-Experiment-Distributed-Government-ebook/dp/B00IM5EM7W. I think when it was mentioned to him how libertarian his book was he didn't really understand why that was said.

There are different types of libertarianism (http://www.learnliberty.org/playlists/schools-of-thought-in-classical-liberalism/) but it is basically it is biased off of the "Non-aggression principle".

Hey Weiner fans, read his new book: Polystate: A Thought Experiment in Distributed Government

Here is the mobile version of your link

The author actually is an AnCap... based on his writing this eBook.

> No. There are a range of goals (because AnCap is an umbrella term) but none of them are 'stateless' corporate-oligarchy since corporations are themselves branches of the state we are against. Something like a polystate is closer to what you describe but is not anarcho-capitalist in nature (or conception).

You don't think your system is total corporate tyranny, but it is.

> nature has oppressed you

Well look who doesn't have a clue what the other person believes.

> There are numerous volumes of text on why a state is unlikely to rise from Anarcho-Capitalism

So? There are many more that explain why it would.

> Who advocates for this particular acronym in the broader AnCap community?

David Friedman.

> Except that what we are advocating for is freed markets, not 'capitalism'. Though I would say I have no problems with capital accumulation.

Private owns of the means of production is capitalism. If you advocated for freed markets, you'd be a mutualist.

I would like to find some more justification for it as well. I'll be looking and I'll post here if I find anything good.

I'm just about to dig into reading Polystate. I really think this is where the future is heading.

> Not many people on here seem to agree with me though.

What you're describing is what certain varieties of libertarians, specifically certain anarcho-capitalists, refer to as "communities of legal agreement". You might be interested particularly in /r/polycentric_law and some of the discussions that take place in /r/anarcho_capitalism. You might also be interested in the works of David Friedman. If you like SMBC, the creator, Zach Weinersmith, actually wrote a book exploring similar ideas.