Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Applied Anarchy
Roderick Long links to two discussions of Somalian anarchy, and how it compares to Somalia when there was a government. Unsurprisingly, given the source, both find that Somalia now, in a state-free society, is in at least somewhat better shape than back when they had a government. Very much encouraging from an anarchist PoV: government collapses, nothing replaces it, and life gets at least a little better.
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Is it that Somalia has no government? Or is it that within hours of the national government collapsing, 1000 small local governments sprang up, each one a sort of clan based feudal barony?
I'd say that what Somalia shows (or at least gives evidence for) is that 1000 small governments (in which the economy of that local government directly represents the business interests of the baron) is better than the misguided, corrupt disaster of a national government they had before.
It supports Moldbuggery more than anything else.
Considering Somalia is still a basketcase near the capital - where the TNG is - I say it's pretty clear that Somalia shows anarchy to be a strong contender with neocameralism.
I'm more interested in the security question. Anarchist Somalia would not have survived ten minutes of Medieval Europe. So why isn't someone mobilizing to 'liberate' them already?
The answer to drpat's specific question is that the courts are essentially private enterprises. (They have their own, inferior version of common law. Given time it would probably converge on ours.) There are also warlords extracting road tolls, so I take from that we may very well have superposed jurisdiction patchworks.
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