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David D. Friedman is frequently presented as an authoritative figure on anarcho-capitalist thinking. While he may be excellent in many other regards, as this subreddit shows, his legal positivism makes him distinctly into a non-anarchist. David D. Friedman could at best be called a radical minarchist. If someone claims that David D. Friedman is an authoritative anarcho-capitalist thinker, just write r/FriedmanIsNotAncap. Friedmanites are invited to provide their strongest counter-arguments!

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What is rather shocking with David D. Friedman's polycentric reasoning is that it's effectively a Stirnerite line of reasoning. The society he advocates is effectively one where people are part of different tribes with regards to which law code they subscribe to - a whimsical moral relativism.

David D. Friedman's decentralized legal positivism is unironically modern-day feudalism.

This excellent explanation from "A Spontaneous Order: The Capitalist case for a Stateless society" is unfortunately somewhat tainted by Friedmanism. In it,the author nods at communities arbitrarily establishing local laws in a marketplace of law,even if anarchy is based on the NAP. Great overall doe

Anarcho-capitalism could be understood as "Rule by natural law through judges" - of judges who impartially and faithfully interpret how natural law should be enforced for specific cases and of voluntarily funded law enforcers which blindly adhere to these judges' verdicts and administer them.

A reminder that Friedman's perverted faux-anarcho-capitalism is one where rich people would be able to legitimately be able to purchase services to ensure that they are able to get away with pedophilia insofar as they are powerful enough. Friedman's polycentrism is wicked.

As excellently outlined here, David D. Friedman strangely grounds his anarchist thinking in economic reasoning, as opposed to ethical normative reasoning. From the outset, we can then see that Friedmanite thought doesn't even explain _why_ anarchy should be the case.

Most notably the prominent "anarcho"-socialist encyclopedia "An Anarchist FAQ" based much of their reasoning on the false assumption that David D. Friedman even was an authoritative anarcho-capitalist thinker. Due to this misunderstanding, much of their critique falls completely flat.

Here is the intended banner image for the subreddit which I don't know yet how to make to be fully shown in the background. If someone knows how to acheive this, gladly do so! 🙂

The single quote which undeniably demonstrates taht David D. Friedman is definitely not an anarchist. Anarchy, based on natural law, is a prescriptive endeavor - not a mere thought exercise of what a market in legal codes may resemble.