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So You Want To Overthrow The State: Ten Questions For Aspiring Revolutionaries

• https://www.zerohedge.com by Art Carden

Students are charged with writing their own revolutionary manifesto in light of readings from revolutionaries like Che Guevara. The right-wing outrage machine, as you can imagine, is feasting on it and offering it as an example of the radical takeover of higher education.

I'm intrigued by the class because I tend toward free-market anarchism myself and think that states are neither necessary nor sufficient for prosperity. There's a burgeoning academic literature on this with books like Peter T. Leeson's Anarchy Unbound exploring the theory and history of statelessness and AIER's own Edward Stringham's Private Governance looking at how institutions and organizations that protect people and property have emerged without coercion. There's a lively and ongoing debate in these circles about whether or not one would push a button that would allow us to wake up tomorrow morning without governments. WLU's course represents an excellent opportunity for students to take the revolutionaries' arguments seriously, and if they do their due diligence, to think really hard about their shortcomings. I offer, therefore, ten questions for the young leaders of these revolutionary movements.


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