@rasterman Mises was saying that it operated more like a home owner's association or covenant community than a nation-state, so it's kind of like what the Hoppeans want. Also laws were just moral traditions instead of being written on paper, kind of like natural law.
If you want better examples you also have the American Old West, Celtic Ireland, the Icelandic Commonwealth, and Cospaia.
https://mises.org/library/not-so-wild-wild-west
https://peacerequiresanarchy.wordpress.com/2012/12/30/stateless-societies-ancient-ireland/
http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Academic/Iceland/Iceland.html
https://mises.org/power-market/republic-cospaia-anarchist-renaissance-city
@rasterman The point of the article was to prove that voluntary social order can work. They used statist terms like "government", but the society operated like a home owner's association.
Also, how did you think early agricultural civilizations operated? They were stateless and people voluntarily bartered crops and services.
@rasterman
>Early agrarian societies had a subsistence economy, nothing like capitalism.
Hunter-gatherer societies were subsistence, not neolithic societies. Population grew exponentially so people slowly moved to a barter based society during that time.
Also, I'm not a LARPer. I post gamedev stuff in addition to my libertarian preaching. Hachi, on the other hand, constantly whines about "trans genocide".
@rasterman Cospaia in particular had no government, taxes, police, or prisons, and lasted for almost 400 years with a booming economy thanks to it's tobacco production which was banned everywhere else. It was as developed as neighboring societies at the time. It was the longest lived, stateless, capitalist society in the western world.
@rasterman It's another example of an early form of a covenant community. A covenant community is not a state because it's voluntary. You choose to live there like choosing to live in a gated community, trailer park, or apartment complex. A state on the other hand claims land by force. Not paying the fee meant that businesses would no longer associate with you. That's not a state, that's just voluntary association.
>government (micro state) by popular assembly
>rule (not anarchy) by an elected mayor
>mayor's election had to be approved by the corregidor* of Bragança (*royal public administrator in the Spanish and Portuguese empires)
>married couples swore fealty to either Portugal or Spain on their wedding day
>when the judiciary had to intervene, families attended courts corresponding to the crown they swore fealty to
>until 1834 they paid annual taxes to both the Portuguese crown and the Spanish crown, as well as to the House of Bragança for considering it owner of their territories
>enjoyed privileges for centuries for being small and flying under the radar... until:
>known refuge of contrabandists, assassins and other fugitive evildoers from Portugal and Spain
>both countries got fed up and partitioned the land in 1864
>no information about this feudal micro state being capitalist in the slightest
>Mises is lying (must be a day ending in "y")
True anarcho-capitalism hasn't been tried yet.
In presenting that link as some sort of counter-argument, are you a lying faggot on purpose or is it just because you're stupid?Maybe next time choose a bullshit story about a place where I can't easily check the original sources in Spanish.