This has been an interesting discussion on the free market, PDA’s and the state and such.
My take on this is the ONLY market is the free market and therefore mercantilism, fascism, socialism, and communism are concepts about coercive interventions into the free market… galloping brigands swooping into the market stealing from and murdering the innocents.
The free market is where all production happens. The government is an outgrowth of the free market due to an established criminal band fortifying their position.
I guess I would call it the abolition of the market — partial (interventionism) or complete (socialism).
I don’t think it’s inevitable. People have free will, after all. The key issue here is ideology. Whether or not a social system will survive depends ultimately on public opinion (Boetie). Hoppe says limited government is impossible, but this isn’t strictly true; it’s just that a limited government has the incentive to become Leviathan. If the people believe in limited government, it’s entirely possible (although very unlikely) for it to remain limited. Likewise with anarchy. If public opinion supports anarchy, then it will not devolve into government. But unlike limited government, anarchy has a better set of checks and balances to prevent the formation of governments.
Yeah. Also important is the Cowen/Friedman/Caplan exchange in Anarchy and the Law.
But obviously nothing is inevitable, i.e. nothing is guaranteed to happen. People have free will. What’s relevant here is the incentive structures, or what is likely to happen.