Gene Wolfe Fans Talk Politics (Again)

James Wynn · 19 May 2009, 21:18 · from 2009-May.txt.gz

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From: crushtv at gmail.com (James Wynn)
Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 16:18:52 -0500
Subject: (urth) Gene Wolfe Fans Talk Politics (Again)
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> I am merely offering Somalia as the closest approach to the ideal of a 
> complete lack of functional civil society and to a Hobbesian all- 
> against-all of which I am currently aware.
> I don't think it was founded as a Libertopia.  I think it does 
> approximate the end state of a society in which there is not a 
> government.

Libertarians and classical Liberals do not call for the withering away of 
the state. That's some other political philosophy.

>From an L/L stand-point, I could reasonably compare Somalia's economy-based 
on piracy to a Welfare State system. But then Gene Wolfe already did.

J.

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