The Tale of the Slave - Robert Nozick

This is a remix, no copyright intended. "The Tale of the Slave" features in Robert Nozick's book, "Anarchy, State and Utopia". I would recommend re-watching the video to see clearly if Nozick's question is answerable.

Credit to TomWoodsTV for the voice-over in this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6n1FL...

Read the original text:
http://www.duke.edu/web/philsociety/t...

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[apeironishome]

I'm asking the question again. why does the libertarian mission involve private ownership? why not do away with it? libertarian socialism I guess its called.

[StatelessLiberty]

Because private property is inextricably linked with prosperity and civilisation. The "libertarian socialist" program has been tried in places, like Catalonia during the Spanish Revolution. Needless to say, it failed (see Bryan Caplan's The Anarcho-Statists of Spain).

[apeironishome]

ok so where are the examples of anarcho-capitalism working. I'm sure you have them

[StatelessLiberty]

All of the individual elements of a stateless free-market society have been shown to work in isolation. I challenge you to name an element that hasn't.

[apeironishome]

if you were paying attention you huge ignorant & naive idiot I was asking why private property is presupposed in a stateless society. the magna carta for instance makes no reference to it. not until Henry VIII did capitalism become the standard. and even then there revolts and demonstrations and appeals to "the commonwealth".

[SuperCodeable]

You do realize that JUSTICE is totally 100% INDEPENDENT OF THE STATE right?

Justice, virtue, peace- ARBITRATION- these things had predated the very notion of the state. And in fact, "governments" and "rulers" never really got involved in such matters as arbitrations and laws for many many centuries. Did that mean NO arbitration ever really occurred and everyone just murder, rape and steal from everyone?

lol

you must be a huge ignorant & naive idiot if you think so

[apeironishome]

bahaha we're not talking about the FANS of Noam Chomsky. we're talking about the person himself. and you're begging the question with "good understanding of their opponent's criticisms." Marx died before neo classical econ became popular. the fact that LTV was refuted does not mean it was DEFEATED. go back to Wikipedia and find the reference where it was

[StatelessLiberty]

That's because the LTV was refuted by marginalism in the late 19th century. And anyone who likes Noam Chomsky is a lightweight. I have never met a fan of Chomsky who had a good understanding of their opponent's criticisms.

[apeironishome]

labor theory of value. neo classical and austrian schools don't recognize it.

[apeironishome]

well you could probably refer to Noam Chomsky's entire body of work. or any one else who agree's with the value theory of labor. I just did a paper on Value, Price, Profit.