Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Rozeff on Panarchy

Any anarchist by definition accepts panarchism, that is multiple systems at once in the same territory.  Michael Rozeff is an excellent exponent of this system:
I think that the slogan "taxation is theft" attempts to make taxation into a moral issue, but I think that attempt fails in general because logically there is a degree of consent to government. I think a far stronger and defensible ground for a moral issue is to argue that making non-consenting people pay taxes is immoral. Who can disagree with that except the people committed to using force on others? Backed into a corner, they will start making arguments about externalities, one society, territory, or the impossibility of several governments or sets of laws in one territory. Or else they will argue for the benefits of imposing force, some human beings on other human beings.
We already have many systems in one country, different sets of rules for different people.   Why not just formalize it?

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