No Coercion

Stefan Molyneux, an anarchist philosopher, has written a handful of books (available for free), one of which is Practical Anarchy, in which he addresses many concerns that non-anarchists often put forward when we talk about abolishing the state. In one of my favorite passages, he brings up the very good point that we don’t often call for statist solutions to the problems we face in our personal and professional lives:

For instance, when you face a problem at work, I can’t imagine that you ever sit your team down and say:

“I’ve come up with the perfect solution to our problem – what we’re going to do, see, is pick two of us, give them guns, and then those two are going to force the rest of us to do whatever they want for the next few years, and then we are going to perhaps pick two other people who will get those guns, and then they’ll be able to force us to do whatever they want us to do for the next few years, and then we’ll start all over again…”

I have yet to see a business book with anything close to the title of: “Creating A Violent Internal Monopoly To Solve Your Customer Service Woes!”

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