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It has existed at other times and places though. Ireland used to be pure anarchy. Medieval Iceland almost was (there was free entry into a fixed set of legal protection positions, the fixing of which constituted a monopolization vector that was eventually exploited).
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The Republic of Cospaia was a 100% ancap community, a small one, which lasted for 400 years or so, and unfortunately gave way to state aggression because they didn't raise a strong defensive force when neighboring states started to become interested in conquest and had the leverage to do it.
This is the one angle on anarchy that makes me a libertarian...sort of. I just can't see military conquest not happening if a society was anarchist.
What do you mean?
