Hoppe, Monarchy, and Democracy

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He just makes a utilitarian defense of monarchy compared to democracy, which has little to do with justice. I could care less about capital value when the fundamental concern is justice.

Whose justice: yours or mine? You are going to get right back to economics, because the closest we’re going to get to everyone’s subjective conception of “justice” being satisfied is to let a bunch of different constructs compete for adherents. In this regard, a system of feudal holdings all competing with each other for human and fiscal capital stacks up pretty good against a system whereby the parasitic majority lives off the productive minority.

If, on the other hand, your goal is a worldwide standard of justice that comports with your belief system then you should infiltrate and promote the central state so your universal standard of justice can be immanentized.

Libertarian justice - and stop dancing around this concept. You’re setting up a false dichotomy or presenting me with a false set of choices between fuedalism and global government or fuedalism and democracy. As radical libertarians, we’re supposed to reject both. You seem to be actually advocating neo-fuedalism as an alternative to democracy (and this is hardly a strawman given your rather blatant comments inferring this). I could just as easily make a utilitarian comparison between communism and fascism, and conclude that fascism is the lesser of the two evils, but that doesn’t mean I’m going to go on to actually endorse fascism.

I find it strange that you continually speak as if libertarianism is divorced from a concept of justice, as if it’s all just a matter of utilitarian economics. You should very well know better than that - re-read your copy of The Ethics of Liberty. Libertarianism is a comprehensive political theory, and as such it has to do with interpersonal ethics and consequentially a concept of rights and justice. Or do you reject Rothbard’s universalism and hence disregaurd human rights?