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RE: Response: Sorry Libertarian Anarchists, Capitalism Requires Government
I love the theory.
Unfortunately, governments tend to form like stars and galaxies and superclusters.
Pick feudal Europe after the black plague. No governments anywhere.
But one village elects a sheriff to protect them from the village down the road which teams up with a third village to gain advantage over the first in a never ending process of alliance forming and conquest until eventually countries and empires and planetary governments are formed.
Occasionally a plague, EMP pulse, world war, or catastrophic Pittsburgh Steeler loss will tear it all down, but that merely resets the alliance forming process and it all begins again.
We don't actually know where governments arose from. The concept is as old as recorded history. We also know the timespan you mention with remarkably little detail or accuracy, as I understand it, so it's really quite difficult to say how we got to where we are. I have my theories, but that's a much bigger discussion for another time.
In any event, the possibility that someone will create a government is no reason not to abolish government. That's logically equivalent (not merely analogous) to saying "Someone might someday force someone else into slavery again, so we might as well not try to end slavery."
"We don't actually know where governments arose from."
I think its pretty safe to say government arose from the agricultural revolution. No known non-agricultural societies have any sort of government structure. It stems from the division of labor and the need to allocate resources, something that was not an issue in band / hunter gatherer society. #notananarchoprimitivistbutheymakesomegoodpoints
hi Stan,
great to find your post.
check Joe Atwill, Caesar's Messiah, for Flavio Constantine's feudalism,302 ad.
the renaissance has to have something to rebirth from. it lasted 1000 years
preventing rebellion from real shit till the black death 1348.
catchya soon.
ATB T:)