The existance of the State is an infringement on your rights, any good that comes out of it isn't really an argument. It's akin as saying that killing all poor people would eradicate poverty, so it is harmful in some ways but it has some benefits
Other actors would also be States, we the people should fight against all States, not just the current one
A right is not given to you by an authority. You are free to live your life, as long as you don't control/damage other people.
The State takes away your right to live your life and use your property, and empowers Corporations to make them richer at your cost. In the meantime, the State murders a lot of people.
Your rights must be enforced by yourself until free-market alternatives to the State are created
Because human rights are so well-protected in Afghanistan, Somalia or other such failed states. The alternative to a functioning state is not some techno-anarchist utopia, its warlordism and feudalism. Even the Taliban were seen as preferable to that (they got their initial political capital by rescuing boys kidnapped by warlords to be used as catamites).
Just fyi, this is one of the biggest running jokes as a low effort, lazy rebuttal. I'm not saying that's you, just in general It's been refuted ad nauseam and there are mountains of answers to this just a duck duck go search away. Most ancaps/Austrians have spent significant time researching and learning, so the tolerance for low effort over confident retorts on forums is minimal. That's likely why you weren't given a serious answer.
Before people reply to this comment arguing with me about roads, it's worth stating that I'm not an ancap myself and do not believe everything including roads are better privatized.
Please don't call market extremists Austrian. We, the people of Austria, want nothing to do with them and their philosophy is seen as crazy fringe theories here.
Economics in Austria are still strongly influenced by the legacy of Austromarxism [0] (the city of Vienna is the largest landlord in Europe) and, more recently, the Socialists under Bruno Kreisky [1], who built the modern welfare state.
Given this reality of economics in Austria, the term "Austrian Economics" also seems like a misnomer.
Maybe something like "Austrian Marginalism" would be clearer?
If only those authors had channeled their fantasies into an art form other than economics, perhaps the world would be a more beautiful place.
At least the combination of ideology and internet connection is mainly psychologically destructive. It’s a step up from ideology and gunpowder’s uncanny ability to provide close-up views of friends bleeding to death.
Pragmatism might be defined as anti-ideological or it might be rooted in empiricism or actually it is quite the opposite of pragmatic to even wonder about such things.
We can talk, we can agree, we can use our physical and common senses, and we can do things together that are meaningful and make sense. We don’t really need the modernist requirement of axioms and their extrapolations.
Sure, rocketry benefits from models and empirical results and for a very simple reason: reproducing the results and proving to yourself that your ideas work through direct experience, the foundation of science itself.
The liberal arts are by necessity of a different epistemological foundation for a simple reason: we cannot currently model the entirety of our world in ways that are conducive to falsification. We get hints and generalizations. History is the foundation of these disciplines and trial-and-error across decades of lived experience the laboratory.
This necessarily adds a political dimension as everyone needs to be convinced to be willing participants in near planet-sized experiments.
For the most part people are satisfied with public roads and conservative with their approach to locomotion.
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. There we go, a workable definition of pragmatism pops out at the end.
You actually wrote a huge wall of text without addressing anything in my comments, and even managed to insult the intelligence of me and every anarchist in existence in the process, cool
I actually have NEVER heard of someone being satisfied with the roads or strees in their city/county/
The problem is that the State doesn't work, it continually murders tons of people every year, it continually suppresses peoples rights every day, and it continually robs everyone of us of a better world.
The fact that you are currently privileged enough to not feel the oppression, or not understand as oppression and just accept it as a fact of life, is good for you, but it is incredibly abhorrent to just dismiss what I say by saying absolutely nothing
Is there an in-depth article on the topic? I’m interesting in learning about this, but I haven’t had much luck with English language articles on Google.
I'm not an anti-government person or anarcho-capitalist, but in my third-world country (Nigeria), private roads are better built and maintained than government-funded roads. Private companies build their roads to standard because they actually want to please customers, while government-funded roads are given to substandard contractors at a low price and the rest of the funds are stolen...the government maintains a monopoly, so there's no other choice than to drive on the horrible roads they build.
But in this case, this is more a problem of corruption and incompetence than the existence of a government...just saying that "build your own roads" is not the absolute rebuttal you think it is.
Kind of...
I was being stupid, because there is no argument but a statement without any reasoning behind it.
I could say that the state that I live in provides free education, which is not something that necessarily robs my freedom and gives power to corporations.
So at least, it's not "everything" the state does, right?
The state exists for a multiplicity of reasons - some of which are harmful and some of which are beneficial.
And if the state doesn't exist then other actors will step in to and will also do a mixture of harm and good.
Any attempt to handwave away the nuance just sounds silly.