Hellen Mainardi: Until now,…
Until now, I thought him to be a soft-core, utilitarian minarchist with not enough guts to take his premises to their logical conclusion, i.e. anarchism.
David Friedman is an anarchist. He is very well known as such. His most famous book, The Machinery of Freedom, is one of the first and most detailed works on the economic / institutional structure of an anarcho-capitalist society. In point of fact, if there is one thing that David Friedman is known for amongst libertarians, it is being an anarcho-capitalist.
I think that Friedman’s complaints against the use of “statist,” “collectivist,” etc. are silly and should have been thought through more carefully. But he’s certainly nothing like a “moron,” and in any case it seems that you have not paid enough attention to even the most basic facts about his views or his work for you to comment intelligently on what he is or is not capable of.
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