Hey folks! So, i’m an objectivist and yes, sometimes i do find value in spending time on liberty.me 🙂 We know that Ayn Rand opposed anarchism, but i would love to see what do you (anarchists who read Ayn Rand) think about what Ayn Rand wrote in Virtue Of Selfishness regarding anarchism.. as well to give an explanation if you think that she’s wrong:
“Instead of a single, monopolistic government, they declare, there should be a number of different governments in the same geographical area, competing for the allegiance of individual citizens, with every citizen free to “shop” and to patronize whatever government he chooses. One cannot call this theory a contradiction in terms, since it is obviously devoid of any understanding of the terms “competition” and “government.” Nor can one call it a floating abstraction, since it is devoid of any contact with or reference to reality and cannot be concretized at all, not even roughly or approximately. One illustration will be sufficient: suppose Mr. Smith, a customer of Government A, suspects that his next-door neighbor, Mr. Jones, a customer of Government B, has robbed him; a squad of Police A proceeds to Mr. Jones’ house and is met at the door by a squad of Police B, who declare that they do not accept the validity of Mr. Smith’s complaint and do not recognize the authority of Government A. What happens then? You take it from there.”