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The American Experiment in Anarcho-Capitalism: The not so Wild, Wild West

Journal of Libertarian Studies
Anderson, Terry, and P.J. Hill

A razão porque a América foi única: no espaço e no tempo, onde em mais vasto território, compreendendo maior população, e durante mais tempo existiu uma efectiva ausência de governo (depois veio o Estado Federal e uma União imposta pela força). Bons tempos.

Edmund Burke, considerado o pai do conservantismo moderno disse mesmo, coerentemente com o seu primeiro livro "The Vindication of a Society" - um texto bem anarquista (no sentido do respeito pelo natural rights e natural law), onde se lê por exemplo:

"The monarchic, and aristocratical, and popular partisans have been jointly laying their axes to the root of all government, and have in their turns proved each other absurd and inconvenient. In vain you tell me that artificial government is good, but that I fall out only with the abuse. The thing! the thing itself is the abuse! Edmund Burke, 1756"

Sobre a experiência americana:

"We thought, Sir, that the utmost which the discontented colonists would do, was to disturb authority; we never dreamt they could of themselves supply it."

Sobre Massachusetts, Burke disse: "we were confident that the first feeling, if not the very prospect of anarchy, would instantly enforce a complete submission. The experiment was tried. A new, strange, unexpected face of things appeared. Anarchy is now found tolerable. A vast province has now subsisted, and subsisted in a considerable degree of health and vigor, for near a twelvemonth, without governor, without public council, without judges, without executive magistrates."

Dois documentos a consultar:

"Edmund Burke, Anarchist", by Murray N. Rothbard

"Rothbard and Burke vs. the Cold War Burkeans", by Joseph R. Stromberg